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#ScribesAndMakers ~ Do you dance or move along to music when you listen?
I multitask: wiggling while writing, proving two rhythms can coexist messily. :music_notes_woozy:
As Jack Kerouac wrote... "The only truth is music." ❤️🔥
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[SF Chronicle]: Zach Bryan just bought Jack Kerouac’s original ‘On the Road’ scroll for $12.1 million By Aidin Vaziri, March 14, 2026
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/zach-bryan-kerouac-scroll-22077310.php
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"I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
~ Jack Kerouac, born today, 1922.
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Despite being famous for writing a book called On the Road, Jack Kerouac never learned to drive and envied people who had the skill. 10 facts about him on his birthday.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/03/12-march-jack-kerouac.html
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‘We all want to know what he was doing in the bedroom’: Kerouac’s unseen archive goes on show in New York https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/09/jack-kerouac-archive-photos-sexuality-grolier-club-exhibition-new-york-beat-generation #JackKerouac #Books #Photography #Art #ArtAndDesignBooks #ArtAndDesign #Culture #AllenGinsberg #WilliamBurroughs #FyodorDostoevsky #ColumbiaUniversity
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`The Hunt is a 1977 jazz album of performances from 1947 by a nonet featuring saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray. The title song is referenced in the book On the Road by Jack Kerouac.`
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_(Dexter_Gordon_album)
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Jack Kerouac’s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/30/jack-kerouac-on-the-road-first-draft-scroll-to-be-auctioned #Books #JackKerouac #Culture
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Jack Kerouac started writing on an Underwood 4-bank portable, and used an L.C. Smith 8-10 to write 'On the Road', but he wrote his last book on a Smith-Corona Space-O-Matic.
He wrote a letter in which he says he bought the machine in hopes it would help him meet a publication deadline. https://news.justcollecting.com/jack-kerouac-last-typewriter-vanity-duluoz-auction-university-archives/ #JackKerouac #Typewriters #Writing 9/14
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So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry.
-- Jack Kerouac (Desolation Angels)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JackKerouac #Adventure #Discovery #Life #Regret #Travel
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
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quixote / bruce baillie. 1965
Co-founder of Canyon Cinema and the San Francisco Cinematheque and one of the godparents of experimental film, Bruce Baillie (1931-2020) has forged a singular path in his visionary explorations of the world, his exquisite treatment of light and fragmented storytelling influencing successive generations of like-minded filmmakers. Shot on a cross-country journey during 1964 and 1965, is the Baillie film most in need of rediscovery. Joining the ranks of Bob Dylan, Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac in chronicling a tumultuous period in American history from the road, Baillie sets out “to show how in the conquest of our environment in the New World, Americans have isolated themselves from nature and from one another”.
#Baillie #BobDylan #BruceBaillie #CanyonCinema #cinema #experimentalFilm #film #fragmentedStorytelling #JackKerouac #onTheRoadInChroniclingATumultuousPeriodInAmericanHistoryFromTheRoad #RobertFrank #SanFranciscoCinematheque #USA #video
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Malcolm Cowley was an influential #editor #writer and book #critic who helped bring #WilliamFaulkner #JackKerouac #KenKesey and other pivotal figures to U.S. readers / Bettmann/Getty Images
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So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry.
-- Jack Kerouac (Desolation Angels)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JackKerouac #Adventure #Discovery #Life #Regret #Travel
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #CoyoteButtesNorth #TheWave #VermilionCliffs #Utah
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Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road - By Gerald Howard
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Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road
https://theamericanscholar.org/scrolling-through/
#HackerNews #JackKerouac #MalcolmCowley #OnTheRoad #Literature #History #Writing
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Lost Kerouac manuscript found:
Why, that could be the basis of a crime fiction novel, I'm thinking:
https://www.markcoggins.com/the-dead-beat-scroll/
#jackkerouac #AmReading @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #noir #thriller
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‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/10/very-significant-jack-kerouac-story-discovered-after-mafia-boss-auction #JackKerouac #Worldnews #Culture #UKnews #USnews #Mafia #Books
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"On The Road" by Jack Kerouac, published on this day in 1957. A cornerstone of American literature and culture. John Leland, author of "Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)", says "We're no longer shocked by the sex and drugs. The slang is passé and at times corny. Some of the racial sentimentality is appalling" but adds "the tale of passionate friendship and the search for revelation are timeless. These are as elusive and precious in our time as in Sal's, and will be when our grandchildren celebrate the book's hundredth anniversary."
Hard to imagine how we get Hunter S. Thompson without "On The Road".
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#WritersCoffeeClub 5 June: Talk about something you’ve read that made you think, 'I wish I wrote that.'
Recently I discovered the words of Jack Kerouac. They resonate with me and I find his work extremely stimulating. :Blobhaj_Love:
I don't think I've ever had a thought 'I wish I wrote that'. I admire and respect someone else's writing. I concentrate on my writing. :blob_eguitar:
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"Un jour je trouverai les mots justes, et ils seront simples."
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Richard Sala 2003
reprise
Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake
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Richard Sala 2003
Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake
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Trees
Sometimes I feel that Western philosophy, especially since the Enlightenment, has too often come to resemble the conifer plantations common to commercial forestry: useful, yes, and in their way productive, but almost barren, sterile. On the other hand, the philosophies surrounding Taoism – including Chan Buddhism and its Japanese descendant Zen – seem more like old growth forests, rich in natural diversity, fluid, resilient, fertile.
Of course it would be easy to romanticise such a distinction, as often seemed to happen during the early days of Zen’s growth in the West, and its influence on the Beat movement – Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums being the obvious example. But the partitioning of Western academic philosophy into e.g. metaphysics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology and so on contrasts powerfully with more organic, experiential approaches.
I am no philosopher, needless to say, so in a sense I shouldn’t say such things; but I am someone most of whose intentional (c.f. Daniel Dennett’s idea of the intentional stance!) life has been given to a sort or sorts of contemplative practice, and so in a sense to the attempt at living out of some kind of philosophy or another. Over the years it has become clearer to me that “the Tao as an ontological ground… the One, which is natural, spontaneous, eternal, nameless, and indescribable… at once the beginning of all things and the way in which all things pursue their course” (Wikipedia) is just the simplest, least superstitious way to understand what is to be found in just sitting, apophatic meditation, or what you will. (The Sōtō Zen expression shikantaza, untranslatable as it is, is probably the closest I can get!)
So, sitting still, we can see that the self is not a thing but a pattern, not an object but a movement among the leaves, not other than the way things come and go. Just as sitting still is an entirely pointless thing to do, so too the Tao has no purpose. You couldn’t use it for anything, and yet it is before all that is, and holds the source of the farthest stars. Empty, all it is is inexhaustible.
#contemplative #DanielDennett #JackKerouac #philosophy #practice #shikantaza #Tao
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“In the middle of an empty plain…” #triptrap #jackkerouac
Last month, when I made a little visit to London, I had my usual crisis in advance of heading to the station about what book I would read on my travels! This always has to be chosen carefully; it has to be not too big to be a pain carrying, something I'm in the mood for, and a book that will last for at least a couple of hours' reading.
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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon my favourite thing atm is choosing an author I’ve read a bit of, and finding or setting up a reading challenge on @thestorygraph of all their work, so I can (re-)read everything in order. Currently doing this with #ASByatt, #EdnaOBrien, #JackKerouac and #DavidFosterWallace.
