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Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose

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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 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

• Don’t 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

• Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

As ever,
Jack