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HOWL - A New Generation of Writing Minds: Enlightening the Dalai Lama

HOWL - A New Generation of Writing Minds

A Blog for Young Writers - Award winning Irish writer Gerard Beirne - author of The Eskimo in the Net (shortlisted for The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award) and Sightings of Bono (adapted into a short film featuring Bono of U2) offers help and advice to young writers

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Enlightening the Dalai Lama

Synder was never really one of the Beats - he just hung out with them a while nevertheless The Beatiest of them all, Jack Kerouac, wrote this in his novel The Dharma Bums describing Snyders decision to move to Japan:
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"...His business was with the Dharma. And the freighter sailed away out the Golden Gate and out to the deep swells of the gray Pacific, westward across. Psyche cried, Sean cried, everybody felt sad.

Warren Coughlin said "Too bad, he'll probably disappear into Central Asia marching about on a quiet but steady round from Kahgar to Lanchow via Lhasa with a string of yaks selling popcorn, safety-pins, and assorted colors of sewing-thread and occasionally climb a Himalaya and end up enlightening the Dalai Lama and all the gang for miles around and never be heard of again."

Don't you just love it? - Howl does anyway.

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