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KEROUAC

Under METHOD I was saying: 

    First thought is best thought,                                          
    let the movement of the mind                                            
    provide the structure,                                                  
    providing there is a mind, and                                          
    presuming it can move.     
    Or is moved. 
                        
And I added the comment: 
          
          
    ((This is a reference to          
     something Jack Kerouac said      
     about spontaneous prose, but     
     you probably didn't get it,      
     you uncultured moron.))          
                                      
                                      
           ((Turns out Kerouac        
           didn't say it first,       
           but being an               
           uncultured moron           
           myself, I don't know       
           where it's from.))         
                                      
                                                    
So:                                                     
    
"Let the movement of the mind                       where's that from?
provide the structure of the artwork."              Kerouac quotes it 
                                                    in Mexico City Blues, 
                                                    I think.  Ginsberg
The excesses of Kerouac's "spontaneous              quoted it and attributed
prose" hurt many of his books                       it to someone, but I 
(_Dr. Sax_ is infinitely tedious, for               missed the name.  
example), but several of them work                  Some eastern philosophy
quite well. _The Dharma Bums_ seems to              stuff?
be his best.  _The Subterraneans_ is  
also pretty tight.                    
                                      
And even the ever popular, notorious  
_On the Road_... well, what *is* the  
point of the book, except a           
celebration of spontaneity, of        
aimlessness, of dropping out of the   
incredibly anal, conformist 1950s     
world?  How could this theme be better
executed than with an improvised,     
random structure?                                             And what 
                                                              does the 
                                                              structure 
                                                              of the 
                                                              doomfile
                                                              imply?  
                                                              
                                        Ultimately,          Between      
                                        no questions         poetry and 
                   Because...           should be            flow charts
                   the rhetorical       rhetorical.          is the dream;
(But the question  question is                               To be logical 
was clearly        a device to          So, I try            but not linear;
not "rhetorical"   block further        to answer.           To be artistic 
so this            inquiry.                                  and yet rational.
retrograde         It's pretentious                            
digression         but deceptive,              BOUNDARIES
ought to go        forcing a sense                       
elsewhere.)        that the issue                            Any node may be 
                   is settled when                           a step in a   
(Which ques?       it may not be.                            chain, or it may
structure of                                                 a branch point
doomfile, no                                                 in a tree.  
it was merely                                                
left dangling.                                               Streams of 
Structure of K,                                              consciousness, 
however, that's                                              organized into
a screaming rhet                                             a logical web. 
ques fersure.)                                                             
                                                             Spontaniety, 
                                                             followed by 
                                                             editing, an 
                                                             attempt at 
                                                             eliminating 
                                                             redundancies.
                                                                          
                               
                                                             What do I hope to 
                                                             build with this   
                                                             structure?        
                               




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