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Retracing Jack Kerouac’s rocky road – latimes.com
There are those who return to Jack Kerouac just to get lost in the ride. Not across lonesome America but in the serpentine locomotion of his prose.
It’s the music of the page: long blasts of blue-streak narrative that don’t yield to periods, semicolons, commas; mile-long sentences that twist onto side-road tangents before — in their best moments — leading to a clear, untrammeled epiphany.
Kerouac’s ear was tuned to a different set of rules: that herky-jerk flow, the misplaced modifier mining something different, something else. The “not writing” but “typing” for which Truman Capote famously wrist-rapped Kerouac had its own incantatory power. His switchback sentences, when read aloud, required a horn player’s circular breathing prowess: the correct embouchure. Read the source….
Retracing Jack Kerouac’s rocky road – latimes.com
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Welcome to Seattle Native. This blog is a collection of images, sounds and more from the’cloud’. Most of hese images are my originals posted on my other sites. Image above is a color pencil abstract image on paper. The original size is 48 inches by 48 inches. My wish is to continue to share my work and other things that inspires me in a cohesive, relevant manner.
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