THE DAILY BEAT: 9th sentence of the 9th book

Saturday, March 9, 2019

9th sentence of the 9th book

Big Sur

The 9th book on my Kerouac bookshelf is Jack Kerouac's Big Sur (Penguin Books, 1981), and the 9th sentence* (in honor of today being the 9th day of the month) is:

Drunken visitors puking in my study, stealing books and even pencils.

Oh, the price of celebrity.

* Given Jack eschewing the use of periods in Chapter 1, I chose to use em dashes as end-of-sentence punctuation for the purpose of counting sentences.

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Reviews of The Beat Handbook

Gerald Nicosia, author of the acclaimed Kerouac biography Memory Babe, said The Beat Handbook is "full of Jack's heart."

Jared Randall, author of the excellent book of poetry, Apocryphal Road Code, said this about The Beat Handbook: "Sometimes a book comes along at just the right time. In my wandering pack of experiences, I find they often do. Enter The Beat Handbook by Rick Dale."

Kenneth Morris, Kerouacian extraordinaire, said this:
"I just finished reading Rick Dale's beautiful utterance and call to action of Kerouac mind-set and zen sensibilities. It made me laugh and reflect on my own life and road I have naturally grooved into after absorbing the Kerouac canon. The road less traveled always had my name on it. And that has made all the difference. The Beat Handbook 100 Days of Kerouactions reaffirms the attitudes and ideology that made the Beats and Kerouac the important men of ideas that America (and the world) thirsted for, needed, and swallowed whole. Beautiful, absorbing, Top Ten whipsmart from my articulate, tender-hearted friend and fellow traveler. Highly recommended."