Posted by malthus on September 28, 2004, at 10:45:17
In reply to poem ... Sitting in a Full-Throttle Plastic Pew, posted by Atticus on September 27, 2004, at 17:48:20
Hi Atticus:
What a wonderful ode to Kerouac... Another Beat author that I like very much is "Ken Kesey". I read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" when I was about 12 years old and don't know really why I was drawn to it. Perhaps it was a portent for me, as the Beat Generation was a portent, the first wind of a new storm. Below is one of my favorite parts from Cuckoo:
"There had been times when I'd wandered around in a daze for as long as two weeks after a shock treatment, living in that foggy, jumbled blur which is a whole lot like the ragged edge of sleep, that grey zone between light and dark, or between sleeping and waking or living and dying, where you know you're not unconscious any more but don't know yet what day it is or who you are or what's the use of coming back at all - for two weeks. If you don't have a reason to wake up you can loaf around in that grey zone for a long, fuzzy time, or if you want to bad enough I found you can come fighting right out of it..."
malthus
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