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"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:40:21 -0400

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

- Bukowski

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:26:00 -0400

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Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:23:55 -0400

"I wish I’d spent more time on the internet."

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:57:00 -0500

“I wish I’d spent more time on the internet.”

- Nobody on their deathbed, ever.

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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:04:56 -0500

Sashimi.

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:02:52 -0500

Sashimi.

September 7th, 1962 Dear Mr. Kerouac, We regret to inform you that we won’t be able to publish...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:14:26 -0500

September 7th, 1962

Dear Mr. Kerouac,

We regret to inform you that we won’t be able to publish your work. Unfortunately, the twenty-seven feet of teletype paper you sent to us was damaged during its brief tenure in our office. Our intern, Nathan, mistook the scroll for a roll of paper towel and used it to mop up some coffee he had spilled on the floor. We tried to restore the damaged document by dabbing it with seltzer water, but that only seemed to make the problem worse. We apologize for our grave mistake. The piece you submitted to us was—we suspect—a very fine piece of writing (although we have no way of knowing this for sure, since most of the verbs and nouns are blotted out with coffee). We are great admirers of your work, and we hope this little incident doesn’t reflect poorly on our journal.

I should have you know: Nathan is the absolute worst. If he wasn’t my girlfriend’s son I would have fired him by now. Last week he started a fire in the office after putting an action figure in the toaster. (Don’t even get me started on his frequent tardiness and manner of dress.) We’re very sorry, Mr. Kerouac. If you have a back-up teletype scroll, or if you compose a new scroll in the near future, please send it our way. We promise this won’t happen again, as Nathan is no longer allowed access to the kitchen.

Warmest Regards,

Lee Krummholz, Editor of the Vagrant Review

P.S. – To further express our remorse, we have enclosed a back issue of our award-nominated journal at no cost.

Jack Keuroac's Belief & Technique for Modern Prose

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:58:57 -0500

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
The unspeakable visions of the individual
No time for poetry but exactly what is
Visionary tics shivering in the chest
In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
Like Proust be an old teahead of time
Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
Accept loss forever
Believe in the holy contour of life
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
You’re a Genius all the time
Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

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Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:49:19 -0500

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look..."

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:43:59 -0500

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.”

- Mister Rogers (Fred Rogers)