Packet 3: Bonus 3
This author described, “innumerable holy ghosts, buddhies, and savior gods… smiling” in his prose-poem The Scripture of the Golden Eternity. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who used his “spontaneous prose” technique to write poems like Mexico City Blues as well as novels like Big Sur and The Dharma Bums.
ANSWER: Jack Kerouac [or Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac]
[10h] Kerouac wrote, “I stand on my head… And see that the world is hanging / Into an ocean of endless space” in a “Blues” titled for this place. Kerouac staffs a fire look-out on top of this mountain at the end of The Dharma Bums.
ANSWER: Desolation Peak [accept “Desolation Blues”]
[10m] A Kerouac novel titled Desolation [these entities] opens at that look-out. “Mohammedan” examples of these entities “stagger on tenement roofs” in “Howl,” which also mentions “hipsters” who are “[these entities]-headed.”
ANSWER: angels [accept Desolation Angels or “Mohammedan angels” or “angelheaded hipsters”]
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