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December 11, 2007
How To Fold A Winning Hand
"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public." - Winston Churchill
I finished my short stories for 2007. It covers parts of my travels to TN, MS, Ireland, France, and of course Peru. Now that I've finished it, I'm going back and re-reading Jack Kerouac's "On The Road". Of course, reading this book is intimidating. Kerouac wrote On The Road in a style that is sort of a stream-of-conscious campfire-tale type of writing. He sat down at a typewriter and wrote the text in 22 days without punctuation or margins. He typed it on long sheets of onion paper and then taped the papers together into a scroll that was 120 feet long. The original manuscript sold a few years back for $2.4 million.
"One The Road" is one of those rare books that wakes you up and gets you excited about being alive. It's like smoking cocaine. After the first chapter you can't put down. After the ninth chapter you want to sell everything you own and go stand by the side of the road with your thumb out.
Posted by Rob Kiser on December 11, 2007 at 11:53 AM
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