On The Road - Again
In honour of the fiftieth anniversary of the printing of "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac
"Sal Paradise ...
Few travelers, real or fictional, are as exuberant as Sal Paradise. The “On the Road” narrator criss-crosses the United States as though in a fever dream, embarking on one mad journey after another. Perhaps that’s why the fictional stand-in for Jack Kerouac has inspired generations of restless wanderers since the landmark novel was published 50 years ago. Through Sal-as articulate a traveler as one could hope for-readers experience euphoria and despair and every emotion in between. At one point, he likens himself to a “speck on the surface of the sad red earth.” Then, in California’s San Joaquin Valley, he pokes his head out the window of a rolling train, inhales the fragrant air and experiences “the most beautiful of all moments.” Sal asks: “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?-it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” That’s why we love Sal. The road and all those crazy ventures call out to him and, instinctively, he answers."
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One out of Ten
http://www.worldhum.com/lists/item/10_greatest_fictional_travelers_20070823/
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http://burroughsman.livejournal.com/6792.html
It's Not What You Think ~ John Leland: Sex, Art and Spirituality in ‘On the Road’ by Michael Yessis
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http://www.worldhum.com/qanda/item/john_leland_sex_art_and_spirituality_on_the_road_20070906/
In Related Subjects:
"Kit and Port Moresby ...
The wife and husband at the center of Paul Bowles’s classic novel “The Sheltering Sky” embody perhaps better than any fictional travelers the ongoing, if fruitless, debate about the difference between travelers and tourists. Early in the book, which chronicles the pair’s journey to the North African desert, Bowles writes of his male protagonist: “He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another.” In the end, the pair reveals just how powerfully the external journey can shape, for better or worse, the journey inward."
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Eight out of Ten
http://www.worldhum.com/lists/item/10_greatest_fictional_travelers_20070823/
Walk On, Walt Whitman, Walk On..."
"Road Trip Like Kerouac (and Stay Out of Trouble)..."
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http://www.worldhum.com/how_to/item/road_trip_like_kerouac_and_stay_out_of_trouble_20070905/
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/
A Bunch A'more Links
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http://www.worldhum.com/lists/item/jack_kerouacs_on_the_road_22_great_links_20070906/
"Sal Paradise ...
Few travelers, real or fictional, are as exuberant as Sal Paradise. The “On the Road” narrator criss-crosses the United States as though in a fever dream, embarking on one mad journey after another. Perhaps that’s why the fictional stand-in for Jack Kerouac has inspired generations of restless wanderers since the landmark novel was published 50 years ago. Through Sal-as articulate a traveler as one could hope for-readers experience euphoria and despair and every emotion in between. At one point, he likens himself to a “speck on the surface of the sad red earth.” Then, in California’s San Joaquin Valley, he pokes his head out the window of a rolling train, inhales the fragrant air and experiences “the most beautiful of all moments.” Sal asks: “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?-it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” That’s why we love Sal. The road and all those crazy ventures call out to him and, instinctively, he answers."
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
One out of Ten
http://www.worldhum.com/lists/item/10_greatest_fictional_travelers_20070823/
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://burroughsman.livejournal.com/6792.html
It's Not What You Think ~ John Leland: Sex, Art and Spirituality in ‘On the Road’ by Michael Yessis
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http://www.worldhum.com/qanda/item/john_leland_sex_art_and_spirituality_on_the_road_20070906/
In Related Subjects:
"Kit and Port Moresby ...
The wife and husband at the center of Paul Bowles’s classic novel “The Sheltering Sky” embody perhaps better than any fictional travelers the ongoing, if fruitless, debate about the difference between travelers and tourists. Early in the book, which chronicles the pair’s journey to the North African desert, Bowles writes of his male protagonist: “He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another.” In the end, the pair reveals just how powerfully the external journey can shape, for better or worse, the journey inward."
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
Eight out of Ten
http://www.worldhum.com/lists/item/10_greatest_fictional_travelers_20070823/
Walk On, Walt Whitman, Walk On..."
"Road Trip Like Kerouac (and Stay Out of Trouble)..."
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.worldhum.com/how_to/item/road_trip_like_kerouac_and_stay_out_of_trouble_20070905/
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Right-click on link to open page in new window:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/
A Bunch A'more Links
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http://www.worldhum.com/lists/item/jack_kerouacs_on_the_road_22_great_links_20070906/