13 - "Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition" ^ Bash it out then tart it up. 17 - "Write in recollection and amazement for yourself" ^ Remember that you, the writer, are in the audience too. Get immersed. 22 - "Don't think of word when you stop but see picture better" ^ Stunning idea. Will try immediately...
@@polymathematics_ I also like 24 - "no fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language and knowledge." Feels like: there are no mistakes or sins, just lessons, growth, and raw material for the creative process.
@@davepowell7168 I would argue that Kerouac's impactfulness across generations, as evinced by the many, many glowing comments here, implies competence. But perhaps you prefer a more straightforward writing style where, as James Baldwin put it, every sentence is "clean as a bone." And that's fine. But it's possible to appreciate the Hemingways of the world and Kerouac's "crazy dumbsaint" stream-of-consciousness style as well.
These are great words to meditate on, shows me the direction I’m going in with my songwriting. It’s like he put into words exactly what I feel I go through in songwriting and poetry. I admire anyone who can be raw and show their good and bad sides. Not just of character but of their work. Great artists aren’t perfect and their work isn’t always genius. And they’re okay with that, accepting the process of creating.
Good writing has a voice. You can hear it when you know it's good writing. It's someone else's voice in your head, but that voice can be completely different than the author's if you were to have a verbal conversation with them. The voice is unique with each separate reason it is invoked bearing it's own miraculous strands of DNA from the author, the setting, the time of its creation and the urgency of the message itself being communicated. That urgency is almost like the RNA carrying out the set code of cellularly encoded data from the writings DNA converting it into proteins so that the code can be carried out and acted upon. P.s. if anyone is wondering psilocybin, amphetamines and alcohol are a great combination for learning about Jack Kerouac and writing nonsense.
I think the general idea is to tell a story so compelling that you’ll be sucked into the white page and will just be transcribing what you see-you won’t even be aware you’re writing. There’s many ways to do this, but to take a page from Vonnegut, try imagine that you’re bothering a stranger. Try and get your story out as quickly as possible and in a way which will hold their attention. Jack may disagree, but the secret to Jack Kerouac is that he did it (rambling kitchen sink prose) so you don’t have to. I say that as a fan.
Listening to Kerouac at the end of this presentation read from his gift of words, his creation, his way. I now choose to only listen to the original author read from their own book.
Oh my gosh I know! Who but him would have known how to speak the poetic music at the end of Dean Moriarty? NOBODY could've. I absolutely agree. Every writer has their own symphony, and I agree only THEY can deliver it the way they intended. This last piece is living proof. I can't tell you how many times I've heard it, and thought that same thing... ONLY Kerouak could have delivered that line.
The chapter with Jack sitting under the tree with the old family dog on a winter night always gets me. He returns to someplace and something familiar, a dear old soul finding comfort from the lunacy in the world "out there." Kerouac always shied away from people and there he was, having a special moment that I would call "transcendent" -- I wish I could have been a friend to him.
I prefer this video to other channels I’ve seen discussing Kerouacs rules. Yeah these 30 sentences if you could call them that are some crazy shit. Some of them at first glance seem to say nothing, especially in reference to writing. So that being the case I have found it’s best just to present them as they are, without any attempt to explain what you think they mean. The comments are better too.
Thanks Caleb, I totally agree about simply presenting them as they are. In fact, I think that is the best way to approach Jack in general, he is a kind of impressionist. Just take it in and see what you think.
There are some good kernels of wisdom here. 2 submissive to everything, open, listening 4 be in love with your life 6 be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 17 write in recollection and amazement for yourself 21 struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind 27 in praise of character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness 29 You are a genius
Every time I see a scene from that interview I think of how Allen describes it, and every time I see Jack I think “Poor bastard, you were thrown into this interview, hoping for an intellectual conversation, only to find out your stuck and chained two chatter boxes who haven’t a clue.”
I used to watch Buckley weekly & Late at night, Steve Allen often & grew up close to the Hollywood KTLA Ch 5 Studio & Hollywood Ranch Market on Fountain Ave, where Allen would often film Live in Living Black & White
It was Kerouac taking one last shot at laughing at the world. It was an episode of irony and sarcasm, a lack of care (which may or may not have been falsified by Kerouac for the camera). Looking at it this way usually eases the visual decline of Jack.
the Ethos of my youth frozen in time and of that time doesn't change much really, it would be bliss if we could all achieve success for the unbridled Joy of our youth for merely being "Beat" as we strive to accomplish peace in our lives. The reality of aging however for most of us diminishes the rewards of such hubris and all we are left with are the memories of our youth, which speaks to us as wisdom when we hear the youth of today rail against the conformity that we know is inevitable and mask a sly smile as we watch the joy of youth.
Jacks recital from “On the Road” at the end is just awesome. Great talent and a brilliant thinker. The fact we still talk about him today says it all. R.I.P Mr Kerouac.♥️🙏.x
God, I can only wonder how Jack would have felt if he had lived through the Grateful Dead's 30 year tenure...i think it would have healed him fully. God bless you Jackie Kerackie!! You are loved and understood by many of us. We got you and your wisdom helps guide our lives. Much love, Georgie.
jack kerouac was a great writer but he was also at times a bad writer. Listen to your own heart and take risks, there is no point taking advice from 60 years ago if you are trying to create something new today. kerouac would have never pulled anything off if he didnt have a genuinely inquisitive and risk-taking spirit. its like looking at the ramones to to be cutting edge in 2020s, genuine things grow from people who live their own lives. with that sadi kerouac was the greatest ever and find myself loving him more for his willingness to always swing and sometimes miss
Definitely have a good point! As an artist you have to trust your instincts and personal sensibilities, no one can do it for you. I do think there are valuable lessons from studying other artists, those you admire and even those you don't. For me, a life of art is a constant cycle of inspiration, experimentation, focusing, and repeating. Trying on advice, even from thousands of years ago (thinking of things like the Stoics, etc) can have tremendous value and relevance, the human struggle and drive to make true art is a universal and timeless feature that does not expire.
You're whole comment hits the ball right on the seams, swinger!! Keep talkin and keep writin. As Artie Shaw once said about the Glen Miller Band, "they never made a mistake, and after a while that sounds EXTREMELY BORING!" Yes we need to keep our own times and indeed live our own lives, but on the other hand, a classic is a classic. Something that applies no matter what time it's written or said or sung. Thank you for your insights! Much love, world! 💜💜💜
Beatific, accepting Saint: beatific, accepting, holy. So a dumbsaint might refer to a person being of the mind to accept all things that happen, to absorb them into his experience without any urge to change or correct, with complete understanding that all things happen and are happening, and portray these things in his mind without judgement.
Check out "Good Blonde and Others" - they appear in that collection, which may be out of print but copies are floating around on Ebay and elsewhere. Some fine moments in that book.
Very good, but not even close to being the best book ever. Mann, Goethe, Dostojevski, Tolstoy, Yourcenar, Dante, Joyce, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, they take the cake. "Shakespeare and Dante divide the world between them." As T.S. Eliot said. Anyways, just my two cents. Personally I think nothing can top Mann's 'Der Zauberberg' and Yourcenar's 'Memoirs d'Hadrien'.
All great, insightful, true, and inspiring words, but what if he returned to Columbia and finished his degree to set a precedent. He did anyway but his unfinished effort would have been completed? Maybe he would have made his mother even more proud of him.
@@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488 just learned he was diagnosed as a schizophrenic. That means his condition was being compounded by his fame, drinking, carousing, and general monasticism. At 21 they decided he was sick and at 47 he died but was medicating himself into a stupor like you see here. It is probably impossible to learn exactly why he broke off?
@@Misserbi Jack was not skitzofrenik...I think you getting confused by his army diagnosis as having “a schizoid personality disorder”...they are not the same.
No disrespect for JK, but when interviewed in some of the color clips, smoking what seemed to be a cigar of some sort, he appeared to either be stoned or inebriated in some way. I don't judge, so please don't misunderstand. ♐
Existentialist angst without any moral anchor that brings meaning out of chaos. One can be driven and brilliant yet without connection to God & MoralTruth. Vincit Omnia Veritas.
1.dont get your notebooks stolen 2.dont let ppl steal your stuff then hover around you and talk about the stuff they've taken as if the understand it. 3.dont let those same ppl lock you up in a state facility also known as your home. 4.dont let any community mock you anywhere you are in public a d take away your freedom of agency autonomy or the openness of thinking your own thoughts. 5.burn all your writing because no one reads anymore and no one cares.
It's a bit difficult for me to watch demolished Kerouac being smugly patronized by smug and patronizing Bill Buckley. Burroughs saw him in his hotel room before the interview and said, "He was ordering up bottles of scotch at eight in the morning, a practice I regard with horror." He died a year later. Even in the earlier footage you can tell he's begun sinking into himself like the Titanic; a pantomime of his 1940's whirling dervish self. Young Jack had a spark that could be luminous, especially round his muse Neal Cassidy. And he could write. But spiritual burn out or depression or a mother wraith became a portable tempest for Kerouac. Gore Vidal remembered a vision of young Jack, a drop of water rolling down his forehead, having just run a wet comb through his hair in a bathroom mirror. A few years later Vidal saw him again, but now the water was replaced by boozy sweat. Maybe Jack Kerouac was just fatally Catholic.
"Young Jack had a spark that could be luminous, especially round his muse Neal Cassidy." Reminds me of something Kierkegaard said about the difference between the hero and the poet in *Fear and Trembling*. What makes the hero great is what he does; what makes the poet great is his transfiguring love for the hero: "The poet cannot do what that other [the hero] does, he can only admire, love and rejoice in the hero. Yet he too is happy, and not less so, for the hero is as it were his better nature, with which he is in love, rejoicing in the fact that this after all is not himself, that his love can be admiration. He is the genius of recollection, can do nothing except call to mind what has been done, do nothing but admire what has been done.... He follows the option of his heart, but when he has found what he has sought, he wanders before every man's door with his song and with his oration, that all may admire the hero as he does, be proud of the hero as he is." I could be wrong, but this depiction of the poet reminds me of Kerouac.
@@polymathematics_ Yes I would agree we can gleam valuable lessons from those with deep flaws. However, The title your video is "Jack Kerouac's Rules for Good Writing." From what I have garnered in my years of reading about him and the rest of the Beat Generation is this: Kerouac usually wrote under the influence of Benzedrine which is amphetamine. The history of art is littered with the bodies of people who let their substance abuse ruin their creative potential and Kerouac is no exception.
@@williams.carpenter2362 it is sad that Jack’s substance abuse got the better of him. He burnt out too quickly, who knows what sorta genius an older and wiser Jack might have offered the world?
@@polymathematics_ True. I am what is called a "polymath" too. I like literature and philosophy, Appalachian biology and history, and theology. If you want a treat you should read "The Passenger" and "Stella Maris" by Cormac McCarthy. They go together and discuss the intersectionality of theoretical physics and math.
@@williams.carpenter2362 oh man thanks for the recs. I loved Blood Meridian and have been meaning to read The Passenger. On my blog and now on my UA-cam, I aim to explore all of my curiosities rather than picking a niche. That’s where the name polymathematics comes from, the practice of exploring our generalist impulses.
Rule #1: get absolutely BLASTED. Perhaps helpful if you want to write poetry or poetically which would be best for all writing but so much writing has been glued to the Straight & Narrow. No soul, no jazz.
Quasi intellectual gas lighting for street cred and money. The less sense he makes the more you sows are impressed. Even he would agree with me. At least Bukowski was upfront about his bull shitting the reader.
@@tcrijwanachoudhury completely, my writing got much better as I started to met people from different backgrounds, novel experiences that got me out of my confort zone made me more joyful, and the pain and suffering of others more mature and contemplative but also grateful. And if it doesn't work for your writing, it will work for your life Since this is art it's worth mentioning once more: it should come from necessity, and not to impress no one, as that will make you focus on the output more than the art itself Have a nice day!
Drunks make the best writers. Heroin addicts can't stay awake or sober long enough to tally suffering. Drunks are defiant dry Drunks with something to prove. And they lose their asses at everything except writing.
pithy not pie-thi, Proost not Prowst! enchant not in chant .... or is that missing the free-flowing point? Nice compilation but the copious misspellings and mispronunciations rather take the edge off...
Jack could have been more profound in his mystical expansiveness if he would have disciplined himself with long periods of total sobriety - no addictive or habit forming substances. We can "find ourselves" in total sobriety. If he would not have died when he did, he would be telling you what I am saying.
@@polymathematics_ Yes, thank you, sir. If he only could have overcome himself more he would have had so much more to tell us through the ongoing expansion of his mystic awareness. What a pioneer! An enlightened confidant of mine pointed out that the path to higher enlightenment takes us to the realization that we are not separate from each other because we become intimately aware of our psychophysical connection to everyone and everything. But he said that the awareness of a pioneer of this nature puts the pioneer in a different type of separateness because others do not have the perception of the pioneer. He mentioned that in the past the few people who attained extremely clarified awareness were cloistered away in ashrams and monasteries and were considered imparters of the farther reaches of human nature. People would read their writings and come to see the sages if they were permitted.
The periods of my life where I've figured the most out by myself were when I had an important experience on drugs (cannabis, psychedelics, those sort of drugs) followed by a long period of abstinence.
13 - "Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition"
^ Bash it out then tart it up.
17 - "Write in recollection and amazement for yourself"
^ Remember that you, the writer, are in the audience too. Get immersed.
22 - "Don't think of word when you stop but see picture better"
^ Stunning idea. Will try immediately...
Those are three of my favorite as well! Especially 17, if you aren't feeling it, no one will.
@@polymathematics_ I also like 24 - "no fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language and knowledge." Feels like: there are no mistakes or sins, just lessons, growth, and raw material for the creative process.
@@davepowell7168 I would argue that Kerouac's impactfulness across generations, as evinced by the many, many glowing comments here, implies competence. But perhaps you prefer a more straightforward writing style where, as James Baldwin put it, every sentence is "clean as a bone." And that's fine. But it's possible to appreciate the Hemingways of the world and Kerouac's "crazy dumbsaint" stream-of-consciousness style as well.
@@ChristopherBlieka but there are authors beyond the US. Perhaps you cited those 3 as a jest
#3 is extremely good advice
That he broke often
He’s drunk out of his mind in the interview with buckley
@@lordbunbury he never said he wasn’t a liar.
These are great words to meditate on, shows me the direction I’m going in with my songwriting. It’s like he put into words exactly what I feel I go through in songwriting and poetry. I admire anyone who can be raw and show their good and bad sides. Not just of character but of their work. Great artists aren’t perfect and their work isn’t always genius. And they’re okay with that, accepting the process of creating.
That's amazing, love the connection to songwriting. Of course Jack's writing was extremely poetic so that makes sense to me.
Can't say I understand most of this stuff, but summed up writing is all cerebral but not in the thinking sense, but the feeling sense.
Good writing has a voice. You can hear it when you know it's good writing. It's someone else's voice in your head, but that voice can be completely different than the author's if you were to have a verbal conversation with them. The voice is unique with each separate reason it is invoked bearing it's own miraculous strands of DNA from the author, the setting, the time of its creation and the urgency of the message itself being communicated. That urgency is almost like the RNA carrying out the set code of cellularly encoded data from the writings DNA converting it into proteins so that the code can be carried out and acted upon.
P.s. if anyone is wondering psilocybin, amphetamines and alcohol are a great combination for learning about Jack Kerouac and writing nonsense.
I think the general idea is to tell a story so compelling that you’ll be sucked into the white page and will just be transcribing what you see-you won’t even be aware you’re writing. There’s many ways to do this, but to take a page from Vonnegut, try imagine that you’re bothering a stranger. Try and get your story out as quickly as possible and in a way which will hold their attention. Jack may disagree, but the secret to Jack Kerouac is that he did it (rambling kitchen sink prose) so you don’t have to. I say that as a fan.
Jacks been drinkin....this is stuff taken from Kellogg's cornflakes box...
@@mikmcd2075 Well, all I know is that what you just wrote isn't getting published.
@@BHPaperstacks And a voice only emerges following thousands of hours of intensive writing.
Listening to Kerouac at the end of this presentation read from his gift of words, his creation, his way.
I now choose to only listen to the original author read from their own book.
Wouldn't it be cool to hear Poe read Fall of the House of Usher?
Oh my gosh I know! Who but him would have known how to speak the poetic music at the end of Dean Moriarty? NOBODY could've. I absolutely agree. Every writer has their own symphony, and I agree only THEY can deliver it the way they intended. This last piece is living proof. I can't tell you how many times I've heard it, and thought that same thing... ONLY Kerouak could have delivered that line.
That last sentence haunts me forever, I've seen the movie on the road over and over again, allways I wait in the same suspence for that last sentence.
Nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old
@@claytonbennett7797 yeah ain't that the truth. Guess not much to do but accept it.
Wonderful. Thanks for making this!
Of course! Thanks for watching!
Wow thanks! Two of my all time favorite people. Talking to each other. I think that I saw this a long time ago. Thanks
My first introduction was the Dharma Bums. It's been 25 years and the chapters about the rock climbing and the orgy still stay with me
The chapter with Jack sitting under the tree with the old family dog on a winter night always gets me. He returns to someplace and something familiar, a dear old soul finding comfort from the lunacy in the world "out there." Kerouac always shied away from people and there he was, having a special moment that I would call "transcendent" -- I wish I could have been a friend to him.
It's been a whole minute since I watched the interview this first clip is from, dude was hammered god damnit
Jack's #1 rule for good writing. Don't send emojis.
Emojis enhance the message sometime
“That’s not writing that’s type-writing”
🤔
Another rule: buy yourself a good dictionary and use it. Especially the pronunciation keys. Pye-thee?!?
🙆♂️ 😃 👌
I like your ideas Jack
I prefer this video to other channels I’ve seen discussing Kerouacs rules. Yeah these 30 sentences if you could call them that are some crazy shit. Some of them at first glance seem to say nothing, especially in reference to writing. So that being the case I have found it’s best just to present them as they are, without any attempt to explain what you think they mean. The comments are better too.
Thanks Caleb, I totally agree about simply presenting them as they are. In fact, I think that is the best way to approach Jack in general, he is a kind of impressionist. Just take it in and see what you think.
Magnificent.
thanks!
There are some good kernels of wisdom here.
2 submissive to everything, open, listening
4 be in love with your life
6 be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
17 write in recollection and amazement for yourself
21 struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
27 in praise of character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
29 You are a genius
Yes, magnificent because Jack was MAGNIFICENT.
absolutely!
Looks like George Maharis...
i read "On the Road" when i was 15 & then i was hooked
The jewel centre of interest is the eye within the eye..❤
I think it’s time to read The Dharma Bums again - my favorite Kerouac book.
Amazing username haha
Love #24!
Kerouac had cosmic intelligence.
This dude is brillant
He truly did…he seen the Golden Eternity
has* u mean?..it's what cosmic entails
Man, poor fellow looks so pickled in this. He died like a year later. RIP Kicksjoy
In the wreckage of the discursive mind, beauty flows.
try reading it like him sometime! thanks
I get so sad every time I see a clip from that Buckley show.
Every time I see a scene from that interview I think of how Allen describes it, and every time I see Jack I think “Poor bastard, you were thrown into this interview, hoping for an intellectual conversation, only to find out your stuck and chained two chatter boxes who haven’t a clue.”
I used to watch Buckley weekly & Late at night, Steve Allen often & grew up close to the Hollywood KTLA Ch 5 Studio & Hollywood Ranch Market on Fountain Ave, where Allen would often film Live in Living Black & White
It was Kerouac taking one last shot at laughing at the world. It was an episode of irony and sarcasm, a lack of care (which may or may not have been falsified by Kerouac for the camera). Looking at it this way usually eases the visual decline of Jack.
Literary legend
Literally, a legend!
I was ON THE ROAD today.
I loved the movie "Beat". Anyone else see it?
Write, write, and write some more.
3:04 well put 🔥🔥 #FromTheWritersBlock
the Ethos of my youth frozen in time and of that time doesn't change much really, it would be bliss if we could all achieve success for the unbridled Joy of our youth for merely being "Beat" as we strive to accomplish peace in our lives. The reality of aging however for most of us diminishes the rewards of such hubris and all we are left with are the memories of our youth, which speaks to us as wisdom when we hear the youth of today rail against the conformity that we know is inevitable and mask a sly smile as we watch the joy of youth.
well said!
Jacks recital from “On the Road” at the end is just awesome. Great talent and a brilliant thinker. The fact we still talk about him today says it all.
R.I.P Mr Kerouac.♥️🙏.x
On The Road.
When Kerouac nailed a line, he nailed a line.
So true.
be ahead of time with modern ideas
I think of Dean Moriarty
the jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye.
Yr own joy
These are all great advice for adrtists regardless of their artform!🙏🏽🌻
Glad to share a birthday with him, he was a genius.
In your opinion, what made him a genius? I just like to get other opinions. We were discussing him in a class tonight.
@@mrsx7944 I think his way with words. It was eccentric but the flow was sublime.
Happy birthday Kenny 🎂
me too bro!
congratulations ! now go be a genius or is that the high point in your life ?
"Jack Kerouac's writing? "That isn't writing that's typing"', according to Truman Capote, when interviewed by Dick Cavett
A classic line!
no time for poetry but exactly what is
jesus christ what a good looking guy
God, I can only wonder how Jack would have felt if he had lived through the Grateful Dead's 30 year tenure...i think it would have healed him fully. God bless you Jackie Kerackie!! You are loved and understood by many of us. We got you and your wisdom helps guide our lives. Much love, Georgie.
Don't be in the back of a van typing on a long scrolling paper while trying to do it until the van stops.
1. Take speed.
2. Take more speed.
3. See point 1.
So what, a jet needs kerosene to fly just as a sail needs wind.
I only like music videos. This I add to my trove.
There are many little mistakes in this presentation, yet I enjoyed it. 🙂
I know my mispronunciations and typos haunt me, but that's life! Recorded this in one take back in my Brooklyn days. Thanks for watching!
1. Get hammered.
jack kerouac was a great writer but he was also at times a bad writer. Listen to your own heart and take risks, there is no point taking advice from 60 years ago if you are trying to create something new today. kerouac would have never pulled anything off if he didnt have a genuinely inquisitive and risk-taking spirit. its like looking at the ramones to to be cutting edge in 2020s, genuine things grow from people who live their own lives. with that sadi kerouac was the greatest ever and find myself loving him more for his willingness to always swing and sometimes miss
Definitely have a good point! As an artist you have to trust your instincts and personal sensibilities, no one can do it for you. I do think there are valuable lessons from studying other artists, those you admire and even those you don't. For me, a life of art is a constant cycle of inspiration, experimentation, focusing, and repeating. Trying on advice, even from thousands of years ago (thinking of things like the Stoics, etc) can have tremendous value and relevance, the human struggle and drive to make true art is a universal and timeless feature that does not expire.
beautifully put.
You're whole comment hits the ball right on the seams, swinger!! Keep talkin and keep writin. As Artie Shaw once said about the Glen Miller Band, "they never made a mistake, and after a while that sounds EXTREMELY BORING!" Yes we need to keep our own times and indeed live our own lives, but on the other hand, a classic is a classic. Something that applies no matter what time it's written or said or sung. Thank you for your insights! Much love, world! 💜💜💜
PROO
uh....I looked up "pithy" in MW....it has a short "i" ...not long
F yes
That “Firing Line” appearance was tragic.
Absolutely.. awful!
#8 has a spelling error… bottom , not button
The Emperor has no clothes.
But he still marches...
😎
He said don't leave the house drunk, I think he meant the opposite
Don’t leave your house drunk… Stay with it until it straightens out. Buy it a coffee, if it needs it.
Beatific, accepting
Saint: beatific, accepting, holy. So a dumbsaint might refer to a person being of the mind to accept all things that happen, to absorb them into his experience without any urge to change or correct, with complete understanding that all things happen and are happening, and portray these things in his mind without judgement.
Edit. That's all you gotta do. Refine, Refine, refine.
Yep, be yourself in the first draft and don't judge it. Then iterate over and over again.
Last thought, best thought.
Where did you get these??? Did he say them??
Shelby 1977 yes! He wrote them down, you can check em out online 🤟🏼
Jake Weber thanks!!
Check out "Good Blonde and Others" - they appear in that collection, which may be out of print but copies are floating around on Ebay and elsewhere. Some fine moments in that book.
31. Bennies
Anybody knows the interviewer? I saw him here and there but can't find his name
It is William F. Buckley
All I've read of Kerouac's is "The Americans" introduction, it was too good for a photobook honestly
But yeah, non of his novels yet.
On the Road possibly the best book ever.
So good! One of my first "favorite books".
Very good, but not even close to being the best book ever. Mann, Goethe, Dostojevski, Tolstoy, Yourcenar, Dante, Joyce, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, they take the cake. "Shakespeare and Dante divide the world between them." As T.S. Eliot said. Anyways, just my two cents. Personally I think nothing can top Mann's 'Der Zauberberg' and Yourcenar's 'Memoirs d'Hadrien'.
Never Get Drunk outside your Own House? That's all he did
hahaha yep
Whiskey, wine and cigarettes a typewriter black coffee make a good writer
I gotta tell you, I fn hate lists like this. Yeah, I'll keep these rules in mind, memorized for the rest of my creative life.
the guy was high as F
I always show number 7 to my girlfriend
the man is dying
He broke rule #3. LOL 0:38
who are the crazy cats blowing the jazz track?
That is Charlie Parker!
All great, insightful, true, and inspiring words, but what if he returned to Columbia and finished his degree to set a precedent. He did anyway but his unfinished effort would have been completed? Maybe he would have made his mother even more proud of him.
He couldnt live with his gayness. So he drank.
@@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488 just learned he was diagnosed as a schizophrenic. That means his condition was being compounded by his fame, drinking, carousing, and general monasticism. At 21 they decided he was sick and at 47 he died but was medicating himself into a stupor like you see here. It is probably impossible to learn exactly why he broke off?
@@Misserbi Jack was not skitzofrenik...I think you getting confused by his army diagnosis as having “a schizoid personality disorder”...they are not the same.
@@cosmicman621 I did read that he was given leave because of a condition once. I assumed that played a role in his deteriating health toward his end.
No disrespect for JK, but when interviewed in some of the color clips, smoking what seemed to be a cigar of some sort, he appeared to either be stoned or inebriated in some way. I don't judge, so please don't misunderstand. ♐
Yeah I think we was pretty drunk in that clip.
Pretentious tripe if one is brutally honest.
I don't know karate, but..... 😁
Disengaged restless virtue 🎉
Who is the music at 5:00-5:55 ?
Not positive, but I do believe Steven Allen and Jack got together and made an album of piano + poetry.
Don't drink in public. my rule. nothing good comes of it.
Existentialist angst without any moral anchor that brings meaning out of chaos. One can be driven and brilliant yet without connection to God & MoralTruth.
Vincit Omnia Veritas.
1.dont get your notebooks stolen
2.dont let ppl steal your stuff then hover around you and talk about the stuff they've taken as if the understand it.
3.dont let those same ppl lock you up in a state facility also known as your home.
4.dont let any community mock you anywhere you are in public a d take away your freedom of agency autonomy or the openness of thinking your own thoughts.
5.burn all your writing because no one reads anymore and no one cares.
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It's a bit difficult for me to watch demolished Kerouac being smugly patronized by smug and patronizing Bill Buckley. Burroughs saw him in his hotel room before the interview and said, "He was ordering up bottles of scotch at eight in the morning, a practice I regard with horror." He died a year later. Even in the earlier footage you can tell he's begun sinking into himself like the Titanic; a pantomime of his 1940's whirling dervish self. Young Jack had a spark that could be luminous, especially round his muse Neal Cassidy. And he could write. But spiritual burn out or depression or a mother wraith became a portable tempest for Kerouac. Gore Vidal remembered a vision of young Jack, a drop of water rolling down his forehead, having just run a wet comb through his hair in a bathroom mirror. A few years later Vidal saw him again, but now the water was replaced by boozy sweat. Maybe Jack Kerouac was just fatally Catholic.
Nailed it.
heroin woulda been better.... alcohol is a bitch...but legal.....
Hello! Can you elaborate on why he was fatally catholic?
"Young Jack had a spark that could be luminous, especially round his muse Neal Cassidy." Reminds me of something Kierkegaard said about the difference between the hero and the poet in *Fear and Trembling*. What makes the hero great is what he does; what makes the poet great is his transfiguring love for the hero:
"The poet cannot do what that other [the hero] does, he can only admire, love and rejoice in the hero. Yet he too is happy, and not less so, for the hero is as it were his better nature, with which he is in love, rejoicing in the fact that this after all is not himself, that his love can be admiration. He is the genius of recollection, can do nothing except call to mind what has been done, do nothing but admire what has been done.... He follows the option of his heart, but when he has found what he has sought, he wanders before every man's door with his song and with his oration, that all may admire the hero as he does, be proud of the hero as he is."
I could be wrong, but this depiction of the poet reminds me of Kerouac.
Last rule, avoid Wm. Buckley
His secret? .. booze.
Jack Kerouac died of Alcoholism before he was 50. So, by all means, immulate his lifestyle at your own risk.
Thanks for watching William. Do you think we can gain valuable lessons from people, even when they were deeply flawed?
@@polymathematics_ Yes I would agree we can gleam valuable lessons from those with deep flaws. However, The title your video is "Jack Kerouac's Rules for Good Writing." From what I have garnered in my years of reading about him and the rest of the Beat Generation is this: Kerouac usually wrote under the influence of Benzedrine which is amphetamine. The history of art is littered with the bodies of people who let their substance abuse ruin their creative potential and Kerouac is no exception.
@@williams.carpenter2362 it is sad that Jack’s substance abuse got the better of him. He burnt out too quickly, who knows what sorta genius an older and wiser Jack might have offered the world?
@@polymathematics_ True. I am what is called a "polymath" too. I like literature and philosophy, Appalachian biology and history, and theology. If you want a treat you should read "The Passenger" and "Stella Maris" by Cormac McCarthy. They go together and discuss the intersectionality of theoretical physics and math.
@@williams.carpenter2362 oh man thanks for the recs. I loved Blood Meridian and have been meaning to read The Passenger. On my blog and now on my UA-cam, I aim to explore all of my curiosities rather than picking a niche. That’s where the name polymathematics comes from, the practice of exploring our generalist impulses.
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It's "more good", not "better".
What does "blow deep" mean?
hahaha leave that one up to the imagination I guess
Rule #1: get absolutely BLASTED.
Perhaps helpful if you want to write poetry or poetically which would be best for all writing but so much writing has been glued to the Straight & Narrow. No soul, no jazz.
Quasi intellectual gas lighting for street cred and money. The less sense he makes the more you sows are impressed. Even he would agree with me. At least Bukowski was upfront about his bull shitting the reader.
i missed the part where you explained its garbage advice
Is there one rule that you think was decent advice ACB?
"Lots of amphetamines"
Want to write better? Live better
whats better in your judgement, pablo
Speaking from experience Pablo ?
@@tcrijwanachoudhury completely, my writing got much better as I started to met people from different backgrounds, novel experiences that got me out of my confort zone made me more joyful, and the pain and suffering of others more mature and contemplative but also grateful.
And if it doesn't work for your writing, it will work for your life
Since this is art it's worth mentioning once more: it should come from necessity, and not to impress no one, as that will make you focus on the output more than the art itself
Have a nice day!
I have no idea what he’s talking about for almost all of them and how most of them are writing tips xD
That's why I never heard of you
I can't hear what he's saying with that trumpet blasting
Ah man, tried to mix it well but totally feel you, sorry about that. Thanks for the feedback!
@@polymathematics_ Just pull the music down when Kerouac is speaking, bring it back up in between. Rubber banding is your friend
I usually pull the music down to a -15db to -20db when people are talking
@@theking4mayor yeah I do pull it down for speaking usually, must’ve miss calibrated it here. Appreciate the specifics!
Drunks make the best writers. Heroin addicts can't stay awake or sober long enough to tally suffering. Drunks are defiant dry Drunks with something to prove. And they lose their asses at everything except writing.
pithy not pie-thi, Proost not Prowst! enchant not in chant .... or is that missing the free-flowing point? Nice compilation but the copious misspellings and mispronunciations rather take the edge off...
alcohol is a terrible thing.........
Come on, is ‘pithy’ pronounced like that?
no
Nope. And "Proust" isn't pronounced like that either.
Thanks, almost grabbed a dictionary. Didn't bother for character spelling.
Jack could have been more profound in his mystical expansiveness if he would have disciplined himself with long periods of total sobriety - no addictive or habit forming substances. We can "find ourselves" in total sobriety. If he would not have died when he did, he would be telling you what I am saying.
Gary, thanks for your comment. I think you’re on to something here. Sad Jack died too soon.
@@polymathematics_ Yes, thank you, sir. If he only could have overcome himself more he would have had so much more to tell us through the ongoing expansion of his mystic awareness. What a pioneer! An enlightened confidant of mine pointed out that the path to higher enlightenment takes us to the realization that we are not separate from each other because we become intimately aware of our psychophysical connection to everyone and everything. But he said that the awareness of a pioneer of this nature puts the pioneer in a different type of separateness because others do not have the perception of the pioneer. He mentioned that in the past the few people who attained extremely clarified awareness were cloistered away in ashrams and monasteries and were considered imparters of the farther reaches of human nature. People would read their writings and come to see the sages if they were permitted.
The periods of my life where I've figured the most out by myself were when I had an important experience on drugs (cannabis, psychedelics, those sort of drugs) followed by a long period of abstinence.
Okay so now do the opposite of this