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by themerryloner - March 20, 2016April 28, 2023

Reading shorties: “The Sea is my Brother” by Jack Kerouac

  I haven't the courage, or perhaps the hardness, to withstand the tremendous pathos of this life. I love life's casual beauty — fear its awful strength. — Jack Kerouac The Sea is my Brother What the blurb tells us: In the spring of 1943, not long after his first tour as a Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year-old

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by themerryloner - March 11, 2016April 28, 2023

The Resurrection of Jack Duluoz…or: reading Jack Kerouac (again)

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums Inspiration overload on the road One of my first impressive encounters with American literature was Jack Kerouac and his most famous book, On the Road. I was about 14, and because I had already been to

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