"...and turned and went back down to this world."
I found this quote interesting almost singly because he said, "this" world. He is going back to life, not the whole world like he was on another planet, but the stereotypical suburban world that is. He is returning to the generic life. He is leaving the mountains the and the sweet no worries life.
"Firs on steep banks you could barely see on the lake shore were like ranged ghosts in the mist. It was the real northwest grim and bitter misery."
This quote is just simply beautifully written. It describes the feeling along with the picture. I really feel as if I am there in the desolate mysts of the northwest.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Dharma Bums to page 223
"I dunno-out of the way we feel about life. You and I ain't out to bust anybody's skull, or cut someone's throat in an economic way, we've dedicated ourselves to prayer..."
I found this quote interesting because it shows the very passive calm attitude they have towards people. So much so that it becomes abnormally kind. But if you look at it from a different perspective they are being quite hypocritical because throught the book all they do is speak of the ignorance of the common american, and suburban lifestyle. They are also speaking of how their way of life is superior to all others and they should sometime be rewarded for it.
Alvah said, "It all ends in tears anyway."
This is the first quote that is remarkably true and common yet I had never heard it said before. It is a grim but honest look at things. Most things do end in tears. From graduations to farewells, to the end of lives, tears are usually present. It is a distant way to look at sorrow, just as the emotion of the end of things. Alvah's six word line summed up the whole scene of Japhy leaving.
I found this quote interesting because it shows the very passive calm attitude they have towards people. So much so that it becomes abnormally kind. But if you look at it from a different perspective they are being quite hypocritical because throught the book all they do is speak of the ignorance of the common american, and suburban lifestyle. They are also speaking of how their way of life is superior to all others and they should sometime be rewarded for it.
Alvah said, "It all ends in tears anyway."
This is the first quote that is remarkably true and common yet I had never heard it said before. It is a grim but honest look at things. Most things do end in tears. From graduations to farewells, to the end of lives, tears are usually present. It is a distant way to look at sorrow, just as the emotion of the end of things. Alvah's six word line summed up the whole scene of Japhy leaving.
"Across the evening valley the old mule went with his broken "Hee haw" Broken like a yodel in the wind: like a horn blown by some terribly sad angel: like a reminder to people digesting dinners at home that all was not as well as they thought. yet is was just a love cry for another mule. But that was why..."
This quote is about the sad mating call of a deer. In a field that used to be full of deer, but is now an empty field, his call is sad because there is no anumal to receive it. As people eat their meals at home, the deer is wandering alone. The call is a forlorn sadness.
"I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportioned on the top, with all that rumbling experience of the whole tree swaying beneath them."
This is a descriptive and picturesque quote. As he lies under the tree and watches the branches, it symbolizes his general happiness at the time. The scene is happy, with dancing leaves. The quote is a blissful fairytale in a book of realistic stories.
This quote is about the sad mating call of a deer. In a field that used to be full of deer, but is now an empty field, his call is sad because there is no anumal to receive it. As people eat their meals at home, the deer is wandering alone. The call is a forlorn sadness.
"I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportioned on the top, with all that rumbling experience of the whole tree swaying beneath them."
This is a descriptive and picturesque quote. As he lies under the tree and watches the branches, it symbolizes his general happiness at the time. The scene is happy, with dancing leaves. The quote is a blissful fairytale in a book of realistic stories.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Dharma Bums to page 171
"I figured if it was my destiny to die on the midnight ghost it was my destiny."
I found this quote interesting because he had yet to speak of death in the book, and when he does he seems to have a very relaxed viewpoint. Perhaps because he is a buddhist and believes in reincarnation. Or because he has had that revelation of what he is here to do, to teach, to enjoy, and to fill his empty pages. He is walking on clouds. Nothing can being him to the realities of his hitch hiking.
"Suddenly I exhilerated to realize I was completely alone and safe, and nobody was going to wake me up all night long."
I really liked this quote, because I realized that it is so rare for someone to be completely alone, and know nobody was going to disturb them. Only a few times in my life have I come to this realization. It is an exciting and a bit frightening realization, "exhilierating" being his word. I also thought about how society forms itself in this way. We live close to each other in our houses and normally everyone can see another house from theirs. From our houses most people are only a three-number digit from help if there is trouble. But Ray is living a moment that many do not.
I found this quote interesting because he had yet to speak of death in the book, and when he does he seems to have a very relaxed viewpoint. Perhaps because he is a buddhist and believes in reincarnation. Or because he has had that revelation of what he is here to do, to teach, to enjoy, and to fill his empty pages. He is walking on clouds. Nothing can being him to the realities of his hitch hiking.
"Suddenly I exhilerated to realize I was completely alone and safe, and nobody was going to wake me up all night long."
I really liked this quote, because I realized that it is so rare for someone to be completely alone, and know nobody was going to disturb them. Only a few times in my life have I come to this realization. It is an exciting and a bit frightening realization, "exhilierating" being his word. I also thought about how society forms itself in this way. We live close to each other in our houses and normally everyone can see another house from theirs. From our houses most people are only a three-number digit from help if there is trouble. But Ray is living a moment that many do not.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Dharma Bums
"Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not seen or hear or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually that orange, depednging on your mind to exist!"
This is such a fascinating quote I had to put it in. It it a thought that the only reason things exist as they do is because of our senses, and without these senses nothing would exist. If humans had never been able to hear we would never know that sound exists. This quote exemplifies how much Ray really does know after all of his blabber of small poems and radical thinking.
"I'm going to die!' because there was nothing else to do in the cold loneliness of this harsh inhospitable earth,"
This quote is singly interesting because it comes at this time in the book. He has returned home. Where everyone works and sits infront of the television at night. He has returned to the mainstream culture. He is offered a sleeping place infront of the wood stove. And yet this is where he is the most unhappy he has been in the book. He has this breakdown of momentary depression. This is just another example of how the mainstream culture does anything but bring happiness to many.
This is such a fascinating quote I had to put it in. It it a thought that the only reason things exist as they do is because of our senses, and without these senses nothing would exist. If humans had never been able to hear we would never know that sound exists. This quote exemplifies how much Ray really does know after all of his blabber of small poems and radical thinking.
"I'm going to die!' because there was nothing else to do in the cold loneliness of this harsh inhospitable earth,"
This quote is singly interesting because it comes at this time in the book. He has returned home. Where everyone works and sits infront of the television at night. He has returned to the mainstream culture. He is offered a sleeping place infront of the wood stove. And yet this is where he is the most unhappy he has been in the book. He has this breakdown of momentary depression. This is just another example of how the mainstream culture does anything but bring happiness to many.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
TREE SITTERS.
DEDICATION. PROTESTING SKI TRAILS. http://www.mindfully.org/Heritage/2003/Wachusett-Tree-Sitters10sep03.htm
TREE SITTER DIED FROM FALLING FROM A TREEE! http://www.peacenews.info/news/article/70
ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING.http://clog.dailycal.org/314/tree-sitter-arrested-oakgate-refuses-to-die
TREE SITTER DIED FROM FALLING FROM A TREEE! http://www.peacenews.info/news/article/70
ARRESTED FOR TRESPASSING.http://clog.dailycal.org/314/tree-sitter-arrested-oakgate-refuses-to-die
"Was I talking to dumb after all? Are my ideas about what to do so silly and stupid and childlike? Isn't this the time now to start following what I know to be true?"
After Ray finally uses his thoughts to something that matters, the life of a girl. It fails miserably, and he begins to question the truth in his beliefs. He did not know enough to sway the girl. And in the end it is the ultimate consequence. He is questioning whether he is following what he truly believes and knows to be true.
"I am now on the road to Heaven. Suddenly it became clear to me that htere was a lot of teaching for me to do in my lifetime."
This is a revelation of Ray's. He learns the hard way that he must teach what he knows. He must teach not what he has heard and memorized byt what he himself has discovered. He is on the road now. He has discovered what he needs to do before he dies.
After Ray finally uses his thoughts to something that matters, the life of a girl. It fails miserably, and he begins to question the truth in his beliefs. He did not know enough to sway the girl. And in the end it is the ultimate consequence. He is questioning whether he is following what he truly believes and knows to be true.
"I am now on the road to Heaven. Suddenly it became clear to me that htere was a lot of teaching for me to do in my lifetime."
This is a revelation of Ray's. He learns the hard way that he must teach what he knows. He must teach not what he has heard and memorized byt what he himself has discovered. He is on the road now. He has discovered what he needs to do before he dies.
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