From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 01:04:22 GMT
In a message dated 12/13/03 3:38:57 PM GMT Standard Time,
peterson.steve@verizon.net writes:
> 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
>
Hi Steve,
Your post is a breakthrough. I hoped for something like this - and a good
example.
Shall buy 'On the road' and read it this Christmas!
All the best,
Mark :)
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