“Don’t worry about the future.” #duluozlegend

One of the books I've been most looking forward to getting to during my read of Jack Kerouac's Duluoz series is the strangely-titled "And the Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks". I read this pre-blog and it has quite a history! A joint work by Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, it's actually the second attempt at fiction by the former and the first piece of prose by the latter - so a remarkably early book, well before either…

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“…all life is but a skullbone and a rack of ribs…” #duluozlegend #vanityofduluoz

It's become something of a habit for me to take a Jack Kerouac book away with me when I travel during the summer - and this year was no exception! As I mentioned in my July round-up, I headed off to visit the Aged Parent and the Offspring a little earlier than usual, in July, and so the obvious title to read was the next book in my read of Kerouac's Duluoz series - …

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“…the sea was enough, was everything.” #duluozlegend #seaismybrother

The next book in my read of Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend books is "The Sea Is My Brother", and to be honest, it's a slightly problematic one - for a few reasons. Firstly, as it was released in 2011, a *long* time after Kerouac's death (1969), it's not clear where it should fit into the sequence; secondly, it was the first book Kerouac actually wrote and in stylistic terms I don't know that it's rated…

https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/the-sea-was-enough-was-everything-duluozlegend-seaismybrother/

“Hating things takes a lot of energy.” Queen Barb (voice of #RachelBloom) in #TrollsWorldTour, 2020 at about 28m of 1h31m

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow – hate's so easy compared.” #JackKerouac (1922 – 1969) , #BigSur (#DuluozLegend), 1962

#LoveVsHate