Wednesday, July 18, 2007

almost done with the dharma bums


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Japhy Rider is everything I could fall in love with. An anarchistic hippie without being angry and bothered. Living in a cabin in the hills, reading and writing and being all for himself. Kerouac is so talented and it comes in bursts of exploding inspiration interspersed between dull heavy moments. But still, ack! so good.

...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness...

i realize i am in college but my god yes yes yes!

and this quote inspired this:

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