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"All the things I wrote were true because I believed in what I saw..."
If only I could make a list of Kerouac favorites without it looking like:
1. Mexico City Blues / Subterraneans / Tristessa / Satori in Paris / Dharma Bums / Desolation Angels / On the Road / Visions of Cody / Big Sur...
Just too much going on in that old Duluoz legend to seperate any one part from itself. I think, though, that perhaps the most hypnotizing of Kerouac's work would be the "Railroad Earth" section from Lonesome Traveler:
"I go out to the wailbar of all the wildbars--the one and only 3rd and Howard--and drink with the madmen and when I get drunk I GIT..."
Approximate quotation, that one. But I'd say that the Railroad Earth is prose and poetry writing in all of their simultaneous glory synthesized with a spot on manifestation of Kerouac pure dharma dreams of unfiltered compassion for all living things. Yes yes, c'mon. Yes tes, c'mon.
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"In the room the women come and go
With Vodka-mixed orange Jello"
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