Merle,
Yes, I read him in early days. Started with THE DHARMA BUMS and then read ON
THE ROAD. Also read a bunch more of his novels, incl. THE SUBTERRANEANS, DR.
SAX, LONESOME TRAVELLER, MEXICO CITY BLUES, and a few others, incl. one written
in Carolina dialect that is particularly sweet, entitled PIC, about a black boy
in New York (you'd understand it all, don't let the dialect scare you... if you
can read TOM SAWYER, you're OK with PIC).
In Chile I bought a copy of THE DHARMA BUMS in a Spanish edition printed in
Madrid, Spain. It is entitled LOS VAGABUNDOS DEL DHARMA. Good reading, in any
language! Spanish is my best 2nd language, nearly fluent, from study and
overseas work. Have a little German, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese. Some
Sanskrit from Yoga study.
I later got to meet some of the characters in THE DHARMA BUMS, including Gary
Snyder ("Japhy Rider"), and Allen Ginsburg ("Alvah Goldbook"). I also named an
asteroid I discovered after Allen Ginsberg. See the citation I wrote for his
minor planet:
http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/showcitation.cgi?num=11098
In 1980 I attended Allen Ginsberg's 25th anniversary reading of his long poem
HOWL, at Columbia University, which is his _Alma Mater_, and mine, and
Kerouac's and Wm. Burroughs'. I was in the front row.
Gary Snyder has been out to Arizona a few times to read (poems) at the
Univerity of Arizona, and they were great readings. I've kept lists of titles
of poems he read on those nights. Some of us have also sat at the zendo he
maintains, called "Ring of Bone", in California, where our friend Nelson Foster
-- made a teacher by Aitken Roshi -- is long-time teacher.
I haven't looked at the link you reference, but if there are quotes there that
you'd like to emphasize, or discuss, please quote a few of them here!, and we
can go into it/them, if that would be fun. Pick your favorite(s). ;-)
w/ Cheers,
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> interesting quotes here..read kerouac in my early 20's...any one else read
> his books?..merle
>
> http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1742.Jack_Kerouac
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