\nKan man fejre en d\u00f8dsdag? I dag er det Jack Kerouacs, ham der i 1957 skrev rocknroll ind i litteratur med romanen On The Road. Tolv \u00e5r efter, p\u00e5 datoen d. 21. oktober, afgik han, nu reaktion\u00e6r og alkoholiseret, \u00f8delagt af en ber\u00f8mmelse, han aldrig havde dr\u00f8mt om. Den blev hans, da On The Road sendte en hel generation unge ud p\u00e5 amerikanske og europ\u00e6iske veje, med tommelfinger og rygs\u00e6k, s\u00f8gende efter liv, syn og forl\u00f8sning. Kerouac selv blev tilbage, fastl\u00e5st, ude af stand til at tr\u00e6de ud af sin monumentale bogs skygge. Dens meget specielle “spontaneous prose” definerede Jack Kerouac selv l\u00f8st udfra disse tredive tankev\u00e6kkende punkter:<\/p>\n
\t1 \tScribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
\n\t2 \tSubmissive to everything, open, listening
\n\t3 \tTry never get drunk outside yr own house
\n\t4 \tBe in love with yr life
\n\t5 \tSomething that you feel will find its own form
\n\t6 \tBe crazy dumbsaint of the mind
\n\t7 \tBlow as deep as you want to blow
\n\t8 \tWrite what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
\n\t9 \tThe unspeakable visions of the individual
\n\t10 \tNo time for poetry but exactly what is
\n\t11 \tVisionary tics shivering in the chest
\n\t12 \tIn tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
\n\t13 \tRemove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
\n\t14 \tLike Proust be an old teahead of time
\n\t15 \tTelling the true story of the world in interior monolog
\n\t16 \tThe jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
\n\t17 \tWrite in recollection and amazement for yourself
\n\t18 \tWork from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
\n\t19 \tAccept loss forever
\n\t20 \tBelieve in the holy contour of life
\n\t21 \tStruggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
\n\t22 \tDon’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
\n\t23 \tKeep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
\n\t24 \tNo fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
\n\t25 \tWrite for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
\n\t26 \tBookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
\n\t27 \tIn praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
\n\t28 \tComposing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
\n\t29 \tYou’re a Genius all the time
\n\t30 \tWriter-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven<\/p>\n