to be young, gifted and beautiful

    

  

C: I don't feel very intelligent . . . any more, at times, for a long time . . . . when I get high I feel—
J: that has two meanings
C: yeah? well—
J: I mean intelligent
C: I don't feel able, capable of the work, the effort, not the effort itself, I go through a lot of effort, you've seen me man, I've been on my feet here for sixteen hours. I—
J: you can't keep something up
C: I can't write it, I can't say, I can't, ah, you know, I mean, I'm—I can't get anything personally done like that

- from Visions of Cody by jack kerouac

love the body. for it is all of the soul that our senses can perceive

his eyes struggling from their demure downward cast to turn over to me, his face suffusing with a sudden blush that seems to advertise his glances, writhing with his body one way while his gorgeous enormous eyelids unfurled the other way, in my direction, to reveal eyeballs in the act of rolling with indescribably veiled languor, mixed with shy shames and raptures of all kinds, as if from premeditated evil depths, from long private preparations no man could ever dream was possible to the mind, mincing deliciously all over like this big lovely child that reads the Apocalypse, wrapping himself around doors, melting, like Bloom, most like Leopold Bloom in a Dream

- from visions of cody by jack kerouac

so hip to the vibe can you dig it

(jack kerouac, mystery train og permanent vacation)