/lit/ - Literature

>>14728718
I will be posting random stuff to bump the thread

> And don't you know that God is pooh bear.

What does that even mean?

Thoughts on Kerouac?

>>13279491
Kyoto School
Mention should also be made of the twentieth century academic philosophy known as the Kyoto School which, inspired chiefly by Zen, endeavored to create a modern Japanese way of thought in interaction with Western existentialists, such as Martin Heidegger, and other philosophers. Principal figures were Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) and Nichitani Keiji (1900-1990).
Overseas Zen
Zen has had a distinctive social and cultural impact outside of Japan. Among Westerners, the influence has taken two forms, which Alan Watts, in the jargon of the 1950s, labeled “Square Zen” and “Beat Zen”. The former represents those who have followed formal Zen practice, doing zazen and koan work, with a master in one of the centers which have sprung up outside Japan. The First Zen Institute of New York was established by Sokei-an in 1930.
Many more centers opened after World War II, some started by former Allied occupation soldiers who, once in Japan, had come under the spell of Zen, as they discovered the beauties of its gardens and temples in the land of the erstwhile enemy. The postwar Zen vogue also included “Beat” Zen, the spirituality embrace by those of the “Beat” writers, like Gary Synder and Jack Kerouac, who (mainly inspired by the writings of D.T. Suzuki, R.H. Blyth and Alan Watts) identified with the old safes they called “Zen lunatics”, like Ikkyu and Basho. In a decade of conformity, they say in Zen a spiritual path for rebels against convention, who wandering freely watched the world through poet’s and artist’s eyes. A great classic of this type is Kerouac’s novel, The Dharma Bums, the semi-autobiographical story of his and his comrades’ freewheeling life in San Francisco and environs.
Though not always a polished writer, Jack Kerouac was capable of lines which explore the mysteries of Mahayan Buddhism as well as any Eastern sutra. Here are two sentences from The Dharma Bums about sleeping outdoors in the southwestern desert:
“The silence is so intense you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I always identify with the roaring of the diamond of wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you’ve seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth. I wish I could explain it to those I loved, to my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren’t any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it.”
END OF CHAPTER

On The Road was one of the comfiest things I've ever read, I'd like more. What are his best works? I've heard Dharma Bums is a bit of a meme and is filled with pseudo-Buddhism.

is he true patrician or trash-tier?

>>10310198
>>10310678
>best
Suttree
>overrated
The Road
>worst
The Orchard Keeper

>>10310185
>>10310678
>best
Augustus
>overrated
Stoner
>worst
Stoner

>best
Desolation Angles
>overrated
The Subterraneans
>worst
many others

Sexy man

>>9328676

Jack Kerouac is the Kurt Cobain of literature

This hunk right here.

“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.”


― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

If I write in a stream of consciousness "style" like the beats, am I a total fag?