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Lila p.324 Dutch version: ' (...): reference to On
the Road by Jack Kerouac-
R.P. mentions how this writer is the voice of a movement, the so-called hippies, which is the movement my parents hated, and how those hippies missed a big chance on not noticing the difference between the biological "level" and DQ (in their refutation by action of the intellectual level). The thing I would like to discuss, the thing I would like to know: was Pirsig inspired by the following transscript from Desolation Angels by Kerouac- because the similarities (as I mentioned, p. 324 of the Dutch version of Lila) are there I think & no I'm not an inexperienced reader who should no this is just a throw of the dice..... By the way: I'm a good friend of Marc Brookhuis, didn't know he was participating in this forum though.... (.) Because by far the sweetest gift on earth, inseminating a woman, the feeling of that for a tortured man, leads to children who are torn out of the womb screaming for mercy as tho they were being thrown to the Crocodiles of Life- in the River of Lives- which is what birth is, O ladies & Gentlemen of gentle Scotland- 'Babies born screaming in this town are miserable examples of what happens everywhere,' I once wrote- 'Little girls make shadows in the sidewalk shorter than the Shadow of death in this town,'I also wrote - Both the Ruths had been born screaming girls but at age 14 they suddenly got the urge sexily & snakily to make others scream & scream - It's awful - The essential teaching of the Lord Buddha was: 'No More Rebirth' but this teaching was taken over, hidden, controverted, turned upside down and defamed into Zen, the invention of Mara the Tempter, Mara the Insane, Mara the Devil- Today whole big intellectual books are being published about 'Zen ' which is nothing but the Devil's personal war against the essential teaching of Buddha who said to his 1250 boys when the Courtesan Amra and her girls were approaching with gifts across the Bengali Meadow: 'Tho she is beautiful, and gifted, 't were better for all of you to fall into a Tiger's mouth than to fall into her net of plans.' Oyes ? Meaning by that, for every Clark gable or Gary Cooper born, with all the so called glory (or Hemingway) that goes with it, comes disease, decay, sorrow, lamentation, old age, death, decomposition- meaning for every little sweet lump of baby born that women croon over, is one vast rottewn meat burning slow worms in graves of this earth. But nature has made women so maddingly desirable for men, the unbelievable, the impossible-to-actually-believe wheel of birth and dying turns on and turns on, as tho some Devil was turning the Wheel himself hard and sweaty for suffering human horror to try to make an imprint somehow in the void of the sky - As tho anything, even a Pepsi Cola ad with jetplanes, could be printed up there, unless the Apocalypse - But Develish nature has so worked it that men desire women and women scheme for men's babies - Something we were proud of when we were Lairds but which today makes us sick to think of it, whole supermarket electronic doors opening by themselves to admit pregnant women so they can buy food to feed death further - Bluepencil me that, UPI - But a man is invested with all this trembling tissue, the Hindus call it 'Lila' (Flower), and there's nothing he can do with his tissue save get him to a monastery where however horrible male perverts sometimes wait for him anyway - So why not loll in the love of belly wheat ? But I knew the end was coming' |
