Saturday, September 08, 2012

Gods and angels everywhere …

… The Conservative Kerouac | The American Conservative. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

“The Catholic Church is a weird church,” Jack later wrote to his friend and muse Neal Cassady. “Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.” It is impossible to overstate the influence of Catholicism on all of Kerouac’s work, save perhaps those books written during his Buddhist period in the mid-to-late 1950s. The influence is so obvious and sopervasive, in fact, that Kerouac became justifiably incensed when Ted Berrigan of theParis Review asked during a 1968 interview, “How come you never write about Jesus?” Kerouac’s reply: “I’ve never written about Jesus? … You’re an insane phony … All I write about is Jesus.”

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