SAX-ISM

by wordsmith23

Posted to WritersAndGenres on 2001-10-28 10:04:00

Parent message is 48694
i don’t think it’s hard to dig Sax if you can recall Octobers of pre-adolescence, and the intense emotions of sensitive children, which Kerouac was verymuch so. Think back to the smells of leaf piles burning, the dim train whistles, crisp-ass air that almost stings the nose, damp knees from wet earth, dirty fingernails. And he wrote the book in Mexico while staying with Burroughs, so the character Old Bull Balloon is a mix between Bill, and W.C. Fields. Don’t worry if you don’t entirely get every phrase in the book, you don’t have to, don’t spend two hours pouring over a paragraph, just dig the lucid details that hit ‘home’ per se, relish those and read on,hombre