portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Yesterday was Jack's birthday! He would have been 96!





“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll


“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life.”
Jack Kerouac ( in a journal entry dated November 1951

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