![]() ![]() Scholar-and very careful user of incorrect grammar. His great particular new chum is Japhy Ryder: fellow bhikkhu, poet, yab-yum expert, ex- logger, mountain climber, college graduate, Oriental ![]() The novel's hero, Ray Smith, obviously Kerouac himself, tells the story in the first person. Kerouac's Dharma Bums-future Bodhisattvas one and all, by their own admission-are members of a "rucksack revolution." Carefree wanderers, they compare themselves to those Zen Lunatics immortalized in classic Japanese sumi painting, caught in swift brush strokes as they gaily loaf, or stroll about laughing fit to kill at the whole ephemeral world of illusory phenomena. Satori of the Zen masters of Japan and China. "Sitting" has even beenÄiscovered to possess possible virtue, for Kerouac and his restive pals-now in search of Dharma, or "Truth"-are trying to learn to meditate in Buddhist style, their new goal nothing less than total self-enlightenment, the In the present book, however, not only are his "bums" considerably more respectable and articulate, but they are no longer merely moving for movement's sake. He novel by Jack Kerouac, "On the Road," was a chronicle of the hitch-hikers, hipsters, jazz fans, jalopy owners, drug addicts, poets and OctoBeat - and Buddhist By NANCY WILSON ROSS ![]()
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