{"id":11150,"date":"2010-11-06T12:55:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T12:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/06\/kerouac-and-the-ancient-lures\/"},"modified":"2010-11-06T12:55:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T12:55:27","slug":"kerouac-and-the-ancient-lures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/06\/kerouac-and-the-ancient-lures\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerouac and the Ancient Lures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I told myself that come November I would quit Jackin&#39; off for a while, but October&#39;s momentum continues.&#0160; I was just now looking in an old journal for something else and found this entry from 10 November 2000:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">During the years he wrote <em>Some of the Dharma<\/em>, Kerouac had a chance.&#0160; But then <em>On the Road<\/em> was published in 1957 (in a sense the opposite of <em>Some of the Dharma<\/em>), fame came, and he was lost forever. Sex, drugs,&#0160; booze, and fame.&#0160; Ancient lures.&#0160; A lure is an evil that appears good.&#0160; The alluring is that which to all appearances is good but is poisonous at its core.&#0160; The fish lure se-duces the fish then hooks him.&#0160; Women are the chief &quot;fishers of men&quot; to twist a New Testament phrase.&#0160; The fish is &#39;taken in&#39; by the lure and then &#39;taken out&#39; by it.&#0160; &quot;Pretty girls make graves,&quot; said Ray Smith the Kerouac character in <em>The Dharma Bums.<\/em>&#0160; The meaning &#0160;is that sex leads to birth and birth to another go-round on the &quot;slaving meat wheel&quot; (<em>Mexico City Blues<\/em>, 211 Chorus) of samsara.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told myself that come November I would quit Jackin&#39; off for a while, but October&#39;s momentum continues.&#0160; I was just now looking in an old journal for something else and found this entry from 10 November 2000: During the years he wrote Some of the Dharma, Kerouac had a chance.&#0160; But then On the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/06\/kerouac-and-the-ancient-lures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kerouac and the Ancient Lures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}