Book//mark - Book of Dreams | Jack Kerouac, 1961

Cover by Robert Frank

"In the Book of Dreams I just continue the same story but in the 

dreams I had of the real-life characters I always write about."

 " All human beings are also dream beings. "

“The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.”

 ---We then neck sloosily , dreamily --- She's very beautiful and I love her --- 

The lifespan of an ant is very short , and it only learns that learning is ignorance ---

"I’m a lonely independent man with no ties, no hopes, bleak tricks to make 

a living, full of death, indecision, sedentary laziness and worst of all

I don’t know why I’m on earth and what I should do to satisfy not any craving 

inside myself but some kind of craving in the sky, the lostcloud sky."

I’m looking for a place to sit and write quietly at the baseball park and go around a fountain

 and batting cage wire to a bench on the side where there’s an old typewriter & desks under a tree

 and here I turn into Malcolm Cowley and start typing – but so old the Machine, to register letters 

ya gotta hit it one finger at a time hard, which I do, – & there’s a sad young kid there, of 18, definite

 personality, curly brown hair, thoughtful, as an interested old Man of Letters I begin to interview him

 sympathetically and find he’s a young tender poet so saddened he doesnt write much, or some 

such, — walked 2 1/2 miles before I wrote this, so part forgot – So he stares into space in my

 dream and I worry about him — Who’s subjective? Who’s objective?

"All that we lost will come back to us in heaven."

-- my silk and lace - able you --- 

SOMEDAY I'LL BE REBORN in that great city in another world system, in the past

 or future, where the single 3-mile high mountain stands against the blue sky --With all 

my compassion with me, all I'll need is the wisdom of the land.

Jack Kerouac, Book of Dreams, 1961

Also:

Peri/od/ical: City Lights Journal (1963 - 66 / 1978 ) | Lawrence Ferlinghetti