{"id":2396,"date":"2021-10-17T14:52:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/kerouacs-beatific-visions-and-the-cross\/"},"modified":"2021-10-17T14:52:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:52:32","slug":"kerouacs-beatific-visions-and-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/kerouacs-beatific-visions-and-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerouac’s Beat(ific) Visions and the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good essay<\/a> by Joshua Hren at First Things<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Hren says is complemented by this entry of mine from 31 October 2010:<\/span><\/p>\n

The despairing section X of Book Thirteen of Vanity of Duluoz<\/em> which I quoted yesterday<\/a> is followed immediately by this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yet I saw the cross just then when I closed my eyes after writing all this.  I cant escape its mysterious penetration into all this brutality.  I just simply SEE it all the time, even the Greek cross sometimes.  I hope it will all turn out true.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is fitting to conclude Kerouac month with the last section of Jack's last book, a section in which, while alluding to the Catholic mass, he raises his glass to his own piecemeal suicide:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Forget it wifey. Go to sleep. Tomorrow's another day. Hic calix!<\/em> Look that up in Latin, it means "Here's the chalice," and be sure there's wine in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Kerouac<\/a>
<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A good essay by Joshua Hren at First Things. What Hren says is complemented by this entry of mine from 31 October 2010: The despairing section X of Book Thirteen of Vanity of Duluoz which I quoted yesterday is followed immediately by this: Yet I saw the cross just then when I closed my eyes after writing all this.  … Continue reading “Kerouac’s Beat(ific) Visions and the Cross”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,202,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-doctrine","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","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=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}