Sunday, April 25, 2004

Am Sem, as always, the plot thickens and I lose my way

So what do I have to work with:
-The naivete of Kerouac's idyllic pastoral description of the people that surround the Terry episode
--further complicated by the racial politics that he ends up being captured in (see "Peasent Dreams")
-The idea of motion and the reaching for pure motion which attaches to their migrancy (see "Dos Passos..."
---again complicated by the fact that they are not totally free (at least one Terry) they are tied to anything that will get them food/shelter. Can the drifters really get off of the truck the Minnesotans are driving?
-The idea that these "felahin" people are the Beatest characters in the novel. Not sure if the support for this will bear out.

Sources
-Everybody gets pissed about Kerouac's racialized ignorance naivete
-There is an undercurrent of "You gotta feel for the guy"
---Corollary of "he wants something that doesn't exist that is analogous with what the margins want--which also doesn't exist.

What do I think?
There is something to say about why some of the people who denounce his niavete cannot denounce his dream, at least not fully. They see it as flawed or delusional but cannot denounce it as malicious. Is the key the filp flop that is disucussed in "White Negro & Negro White." Is that the key!!!!!!!!

I am way to stressed and I want to beat the keyboard against the wall into tiny bits just be done or vomit or explode or something.....

I feel a bit better now...

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