From: Steve Peterson (peterson.steve@verizon.net)
Date: Sat Dec 13 2003 - 15:30:36 GMT
All, especially Mark,
I just finished ³On the Road² by Jack Kerouac and I really ³dug² this part
so I thought Iıd share it to see if you could dig, too. I thought it was a
great description to back up Pirsigıs claim that jazz is pure dynamic
quality. I now read Pirsig's statement as hyperbole and better understand
jazz in terms of dynamic/static tension than pure DQ.
Ch 5
'Now, man, that alto man last night had IT - he held it once he found it;
I've never seen a guy who could hold so long.' I wanted to know what 'IT'
meant. 'Ah well' -- Dean laughed -- 'now you're asking me impon-de-rables --
ahem! Here's a guy and everybody's there, right? Up to him to put down
what's on everybody's mind. He starts the first chorus, then lines up his
ideas, people, yeah, yeah, but get it, and then he rises to his fate and has
to blow equal to it. All of a sudden somewhere in the middle of the chorus
he gets it -- everybody looks up and knows; they listen; he picks it up and
carries. Time stops. He's filling empty space with the substance of our
lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, rememberance of ideas,
rehashes of old blowing. He has to blow across bridges and come back and do
it with such infinite feeling soul-exploratory for the tune of the moment
that everybody knows it's not the tune that counts but IT --' Dean could go
no further; he was sweating telling about it.
Mark, the IT that is sought by Kerouac's character's may be your "sweet
spot"?
Regards,
Steve
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