Up for air after The Subterraneans- way up (mountain climbing is
the new kick) are the Dharma Bums, Ray Smith, Japhy Ryder- a
high-domed hepcat, and some of their Zen Lunatic friends who have
been chewing their cuds, sipping muscatel, junking, holding Zen Fun
Love Orgies (no celibate Buddhists these) in the cellars of San
Francisco. Under the influence of Japhy, Ray is also introduced to
the simpler splendors of the great outdoors- the cook-out and the
sleeping bag- as well as the happy abandon of "leaping and yelling
from crag to crag" on a big climb. They come down and Ray travels
home (the transcontinental transcendentalism of On The Road here),
hoofs it back from North Carolina to go up Desolation Peak- looking
for the Great Truth, after the months of "cut-off-ness, snipped,
blownoutness, putoutness, turned-off-ness, nothing-happens- ness,
gone-ness, gone-out-ness".... There, high on a hilltop, it is
revealed, the search ends- and except for those dedicated, nirvana
will never have seemed nearer. (Kirkus Reviews)
Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experiments in 'yabyum', they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to follow.
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