Can you name these authors?
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The following two passages are from two of my favorite writers. Can you guess who they are?
"Because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace things, but burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes 'AWWW!' "Bonus points if you can name the book this came from. No fair googling.
Here's a quote from the second writer:
"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."Can you name this author?
I'm guessing Jack Kerouac for the first quote, but I don't know which one it's from (I don;t think it was Dharma Bums or On The Road, FWIW).
The second? Dunno. Bertrand Russell? Emma Goldman?
Aha, just ran into that first quote on Billmon's site. It WAS On the Road, curse my failing memory.
By the way, if you have the inclination, Off the Road" by Carolyn Cassady, Kerouac's wife at the time of "On the Road," makes very interesting reading. It puts the male flight from responsibility in a pretty harsh light.
Bertrand Russell? Emma Goldman?
Wow. You're SO not getting warm.
Wow. You're SO not getting warm.
Hitler?
Based on the non-gonzo style, I've been assuming it's not Hunter S. Thompson, but now I'm gonna Google it to check.
Mel Brooks is # 2
Jack Kerouac and Mel Brooks. Not exactly separated at birth, but still expressing the same sentiment. The main difference is that Brooks was the kind of guy that Kerouac would have written about, rather than vice versa.