“Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize “The stars are words” and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.”
—Jack Kerouac - Lonesome Traveler (via beyondstyx)
June 2011
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“But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”
—One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey (via winmeroundwithprose)
On The Road (EXCERPT)
James Franco
James Franco | On The Road, Jack Kerouac ♥
“eating and eaten by the dawn
and the city and i
KNOWING
in the east a new sun is rising
and the grass is growing
on the ashes of the city
where once i was born” —d. a. levy, from Cleveland Undercovers (1966)
and the city and i
KNOWING
in the east a new sun is rising
and the grass is growing
on the ashes of the city
where once i was born” —d. a. levy, from Cleveland Undercovers (1966)
“What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (Image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins the image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.”
—LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) | Home: Social Essays (via thelefthandedbandit)
Revolutionary Letter #1
I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life
my spirit measured out, in bits, spread over
the roulette table, I recoup what I can
nothing to thrust out the window, no white flag
this flesh all I have to offer, to make the play with
this immediate head, what it comes up with, my move
as we slither over this go board, stepping always
(we hope) between the lines—Diane di Prima
