Be Crazy Dumbsaint of the Mind

Although I think sanctifying a person denies their true reality as an integration of both the dark and light in all humanity- and that seeking the intervention of Saints is not only illogical but probably heretic- it is at times like these that I look to Saint Isidore of Seville, Proposed Patron Saint of Internet Users. After quietly reciting "A Prayer before Logging onto the Internet and the Catholic Online Forum" (there's internet outside the Catholic Online Forum?) I discovered that St. Isidore had blessed my trip to the intertubes with Awesome.

It was manifest in the form of Jack Kerouac reading from "Visions of Cody" as interviewer Steve Allen accompanies on soft jazz piano.

(via BernieBelleDexter and BoingBoing)

As mentioned on the video, Kerouac wrote his legendary novel "On the Road" over three weeks- on one continous stream of teletype paper. This "first-thought=best thought" approach is characteristic of his style, which he called Spontaneous Prose, a literary technique akin to stream of consciousness. On the request of Allen Ginsberg and others in the Beat Generation he wrote "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose", a list of thirty essentials for his Spontaneous Prose.

(N.B. This following should be read out loud- and feel like jazz and scripture)

1- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2- Submissive to everything, open, listening
3- Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4- Be in love with yr life
5- Something that you feel will find its own form
6- Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7- Blow as deep as you want to blow
8- Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9- The unspeakable visions of the individual
10- No time for poetry but exactly what is
11- Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12- In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13- Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14- Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15- Telling the true story of the world in interior monologue

16- The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17- Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18- Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19- Accept loss forever
20- Believe in the holy contour of life
21- Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22- Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23- Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24- No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25- Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26- Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27- In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28- Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29- You're a Genius all the time
30- Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven