The 30th book on my Kerouac bookshelf is another copy of Jack Kerouac's Visions of Gerard (Penguin Books, 1991), and the 30th sentence (in honor of today being the 30th day of the month) is:
I'm on the porch muffled in bundlings watching the little Christly drama-- (p. 5)
Kerouac was a religious writer. I've said that -- or words to that effect -- previously here on The Daily Beat, so it should come as no surprise to find a Christ reference in Jack's works. In particular, Visions of Gerard is full of religious references, mainly Christian but some Buddhist as well.
I love the book's conclusion:
T H E E N D
Sometime in the same
night that's everywhere
the same right now
and forevermore
amen
"The same night's that's everywhere" is a title-worthy phrase for your own poem or a book. Get on that right away.
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