Book # 2: The Body Artist by Don Delillo
MWAHAHAHAAH, I made a post!
Now to get serious, feel free to post any discussion questions you want people to think about while reading the book. But, don’t answer them on this blog, instead, bottle up all of your feelings and ideas and unload them on the day of the book club.
Who inspired the site address and name of our blog?
- 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
List of Essentials
Jack Kerouac “Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials” from a 1958 letter to Don Allen, in Heaven & Other Poems, copyright © 1958, 1977, 1983. Grey Fox Press.
Source: Language Is A Virus
The beginning of a life-long jounrey of learning together …
I am very excited about this blog! A group of beautiful and intelligent people fell together in high school and have chosen to stay together in order to continue their shared love of literature. That’s amazing and I’m so proud to have been invited to share in it.
This blog aims to be a reservoir of thoughts, discussions, passions and debates about the books that we read and share.
I look forward to watching this blog blossom 
