{"id":11264,"date":"2010-10-03T08:09:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T08:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/03\/kerouac-october-quotation-3-this-world-the-palpable-thought-of-god\/"},"modified":"2010-10-03T08:09:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T08:09:22","slug":"kerouac-october-quotation-3-this-world-the-palpable-thought-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/03\/kerouac-october-quotation-3-this-world-the-palpable-thought-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerouac October Quotation #3: This World, the Palpable Thought of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Jack Kerouac, <em>Desolation Angels<\/em> (G. P. Putnam 1965), p. 48:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Outside it&#39;s October night in Manhattan and on the waterfront wholesale markets there are barrels with fires left burning in them by the longshoremen where I stop and warm my hands and take a nip two nips from the bottle and hear the <em>bvoom<\/em> of ships in the channel and I look up and there, the same stars as over Lowell, October, old melancholy October, tender and loving and sad, and it will all tie up eventually into a perfect posy of love I think and I shall present it to Tathagata, my Lord, to God, saying &quot;Lord Thou didst exult &#8212; and praise be You for showing me how You did it &#8212; Lord now I&#39;m ready for more &#8212; And this time I won&#39;t whine &#8212; This time I&#39;ll keep my mind clear on the fact that it is Thy Empty Forms.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">. . . This world, the palpable thought of God . . . [ellipsis in original]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels (G. P. Putnam 1965), p. 48: Outside it&#39;s October night in Manhattan and on the waterfront wholesale markets there are barrels with fires left burning in them by the longshoremen where I stop and warm my hands and take a nip two nips from the bottle and hear the bvoom of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/03\/kerouac-october-quotation-3-this-world-the-palpable-thought-of-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kerouac October Quotation #3: This World, the Palpable Thought of God&#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":[202,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11264","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=11264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}