WAYWARD WANDERER’S PRAYER

Quench now unto thy Unholy Fate

A month of Sorrows; thou wilt wait.

What Devils are there?

Oh God, what has thou cast before me? 

                                                    -Drifterdax

                                          TURNING POINT

               Mad Genius Series II: Writers  - Jack Kerouac

The pathos in this hospital has convinced me, as it did Hemingway in Italy, that”the defeated are the strongest.”  Everyone here is defeated, even this “broth of a Breton”.  I have been defeated by the  world with considerable help from my greatest enemy, myself, and now I am ready to work.  I realize the limitation of my knowledge, and the irregularity of my intellect.  Knowledge and intellection serve a Tolstoi - but a Tolstoi must be older, must see more as well- and I am not going to be a Tolstoi.  Surely I will be a Kerouac„ whatever that suggests. Knowledge come with time.

As far as creative powers go, I have them and I know it.  All I need now is faith in myself… only from there can a faith truly dilate and expand to “mankind”. I must change my life, now.

Written in April 1943 from the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, MD

Jack Kerouac, April 1943 (age 21) letter to a friend written from the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, MD

He is quoting Hemingway.

                                  UNIVERSAL SYMBOL OF LIFE

                   Mad Genius Series II: Writers - Jack Kerouac

Quote by Kerouac on April 1943: “Sex, of course, is the universal symbol of life—I’ve discovered that all men, from aged veterans to sere academicians, turn back to sex in their last years as though suddenly conscious of its deep and noble meaning, of its inseparable marriage to the secret of life.”

Photo courtesy of Ryan McGinley

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