Life: This is a Friday FUTAB("Feet Up Take A Break").(week 6,42/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyesIt is Friday so put your Feet Up Take A Break or in other words FUTAB. For Christmas I received some Barnes & Noble gift cards and I bought this book. "On the road, the original scroll" by Jack Kerouac. His original book is a classic read. This new book is the unedited version from the long scroll which he wrote the novel on. He was a mad literary genius. So the names are no longer Dean and Sal, but they are now Neal and Jack. It's a great coming of age story about people in their mid to late 20's after WWII and right before Korea and Vietnam. Kerouac was a huge influence on the Beat generation. Here is my favorite quotation from On the Road. It is my Facebook quotation.
". . . I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Awww!"
-On the Road
This book made me want to travel and see the world. I still have a goal to drive cross country with good friends, meet lots of attractive women, be a riff raf intellectual hipster, write, and create all while on the road. But the funny thing about Kerouac and a majority of his generation is that they all became yuppies in the 1980s and now follow the same traditions and policies, which they fought and wrote against all those years in the 1960's. The hippies have become "the establishment." How ironic!
