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Jack Kerouac celým menom Jean-Louis Kerouac bol americký prozaik a básnik francúzsko-kanadského pôvodu a najpopulárnejší člen Beat Generation. Na jednej strane bol žijúcim účastníkom bítnického hnutia a na strane druhej bol veľmi uzavretý, vždy plachý pred následkami priateľstva. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. marec 1922 – 21. október 1969
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“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”

Jack Kerouac kniha On the Road

Part Two, Ch. 3
On the Road (1957)

“Write in recollection and amazement for yourself”

"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-technique.html in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995) and in a letter to Don Allen (1958); published in Heaven & Other Poems (1977)

“Rocks are space, and space is illusion.”

Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Zdroj: The Dharma Bums

“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all.”

Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Zdroj: The Dharma Bums (1958)
Kontext: I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Ecstacy, even, I felt, with flashes of sudden remembrance, and feeling sweaty and drowsy I felt like sleeping and dreaming in the grass.

“The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.”

Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Zdroj: The Dharma Bums (1958)
Kontext: "Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told you about; the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy."

“All of life is a foreign country.”

Letter to John Clellon Holmes (24 June 1949), published in The Beat Vision: A Primary Sourcebook (1987) edited by Arthur Knight and Kit Knight, page 93.

“I'd rather be thin than famous
but I'm fat
paste that in your broadway show”

Jack Kerouac kniha Mexico City Blues

Zdroj: Mexico City Blues

“I felt free and therefore I was free.”

Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Zdroj: The Dharma Bums

“Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious.”

Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Varianta: Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
Zdroj: The Dharma Bums

“Bein Crazy
is the least of my worries.”

Zdroj: Book of Blues

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