the Himalayan Blue Poppy…
Belief & Technique For Modern Prose
by Jack Kerouac
List of Essentials
- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
- Submissive to everything, open, listening
- Try never get drunk outside yr own house
- Be in love with yr life
- Something that you feel will find its own form
- Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
- Blow as deep as you want to blow
- Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
- The unspeakable visions of the individual
- No time for poetry but exactly what is
- Visionary tics shivering in the chest
- In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
- Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
- Like Proust be an old teahead of time
- Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
- The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
- Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
- Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
- Accept loss forever
- Believe in the holy contour of life
- Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
- Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
- Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
- No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
- Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
- Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
- In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
- Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
- You’re a Genius all the time
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Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
Such an inspiration. Thank you Maitri. God bless you.
I am too busy nodding my head when I read your entries to think there is anything more to add. Really enjoy your posts and hope you will not be discouraged by lack of comments in response; comments aren’t a reliable indicator of appreciative readers. We are out here, keep talking!
Ha. Nearly a month has passed between your writing of this and my reading of it, but for me it’s OH so timely! I am coming to see the Miffy in my life and I’m letting it GO! 🙂
(and I shall sit with the words of Kerouac and see what they stir up within…)
Blessings, as always, to you!
Victoria oxo