When we look back at some collections of words previously published, would they make the mark today?
If we look at the style of Jack Kerouac’s writing we see it is based on meetings, interactions, freedom, rebellion, and much more. We see themes that are unpremeditated and unconstrained. Just as an artist may suddenly decide to flick paint across a canvas, we see a man who was allowing himself to be himself. A spontaneous beautiful whirlwind of poetry and text that touched down with some pretty breathtaking yet perplexing constructs.
Kerouac had such influences as the Irish novelist James Joyce (2 February 1882– 13 January 1941). Who was also a literary critic and poet, to say the least.
We then see Kerouac’s influences and progressing philosophy with his study of Buddhism, The Diamond Sutra. We can realize his welcoming of nonattachment from this scripture. We can see how Kerouac allowed himself to let this epiphany play out, and ultimately create his own painted pictures within his own soulful writing and beat poetry.
As a writer, I would welcome this as where there is nothing, there is everything.
So, you might ask, what has this got to do with your opening remarks Tiggy?
Could it be that in today’s subdivided and computerized world that favours the use of editing apps that are there to apparently help the writer, Kerouac’s work would have failed the test?
Literacy agents might possibly turn their noses up at a beautiful whirlwind of words that once you let land, grow into something rather beautiful.
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For a great blog, that I found, that is in love with Kerouac:
https://thedailybeatblog.blogspot.com/2018/02/jack-kerouac-duluoz-legend.html
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