Dharma Bums Quote Response 223-end

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #226

"When I went back in the moonlight to my same old tree stump the world was like a dream, like a phantom, like a bubble, like a shadow, like a vanishing dew, like a lightning's flash."

I have no clue what this quote means or why he said it. It just interested me because I didn't what is incentive was for saying this quote. Was he drunk, tired and weary for rest and the stump was like a safe haven?

p. #244

"'I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.'"

Once again, Ray resorts back to talking to God and talking about God. His claim to be a Buddhist continues to be less convincing throughout the story. One of his last quotes in the book proves to me that he is indeed a Christian and not a Buddhist as he claims to be.

Dharma Bums Quote Response 199-223

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #201

"Japhy, do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored?"

This quote made me believe that Ray really isn't a Buddhist, he is just pretending to be around Japhy. He states that he is a Buddhist, but when he is not thinking, and just talking, he asks about God. Then hen tries to cover it up and replaces God with a Buddhist god's name. He is trying to be someone he is not, I don't like him for this.

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #202

"Oh, don't start preaching Christianity to me, I can just see you on your deathbed kissing the cross like some old Karamazov or like our old friend Dwight Goddard who spent his life as a Buddhist and suddenly returned to Christianity in his last days."

This quote just proves my point that Japhy has no respect for anyones ideas but his own. If you don't think the same things that he thinks you are ignorant and he doesn't want to listen to you. However, if you differ in beliefs he can preach to you all day about Buddhism and nature. It is extremely ignorant, arrogant, and closed-minded.

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Buddhists are people who are very peaceful and accepting of others. They devote almost all of their lives to religion. In the book The Dharma Bums, the main characters claim to be Buddhists and stick to their morals. However, they are very intolerant to other people’s beliefs in a very hypocritical way. Instead of just trying to live their own life without being bothered or bothering anyone else, they try to spread their enlightenment onto others. If these other people do not want to be, “enlightened,” they are seen as ignorant.

Dharma Bums Quote Response 171-199

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. # 181

"Psyche, this world is the movie of what everything is, it is one movie, made of the same stuff throughout, belonging to nobody, which is what everything is."

This is a very meaningful quote. the meaning is completely underlying. What Ray is saying is that life is one big movie, that is the same thing all the way through, and that nobody owns it because nobody owns anything.

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #192

"You were right! It doesn't make any difference! We all got drunk and discussed prajna! It was great!"

After Japhy criticizes Ray for getting drunk to read poetry, he realizes that everyone does it and tries it. He said that it was great and apoligizes to Ray. This quote in a way tells the reader not to judge things before you try them, and to try new things.

Paper Topic

The lack of acceptanc of other people's beliefs by the narrator, a natural hipocracy

Dharma Bums Quote Response 149-171

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #167

"Fine . . . that'll buy a lotta pork and beans and wine."

I thought this was an important quote because it shows how Ray has no real want or need for money. He does not want to buy anything fancy or save up for his future. He simply makes money so he can eat and get drunk.

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #170

"Well I ain't happy little sage no mo' and I'm tired."

As thie cahpter moves on it appears as if Japhy is changing. He seems to be growing tired of the life of a Dharma, and is becoming more depressed everyday. His change from being extermely happy, to being depressed happens very suddenly and unexpectedly. Ray even see's his change and prays for him.

Dharma Bums Quote Response 120-149

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #122

"After all a homeless person has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him."

This quote angered me. It is not like it is not Ray's fault that he is homeless. He doesn't work because he doesn't want to. If he worked hard and tried, he could have a job and a steady source of income, and not be homeless. He chooses to be homeless, and therefore cannot say that everything in the world is pointed against him.

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #129

"It shore is, but I'll tell you sumpthin, after this steak you made for me, even though I paid for it, but you cooked it and here you are washin your dishes in sand, I'll just have to tell them to stick the job up their ass because now you're my friend and I got a right to give my friend a ride."

This shows the morality of the truck driver, and his sense of life (how he puts friendship over money). He treasures his friendship with Ray and believes that it is more important for him to help Ray than his job. It shows his true colors.

Th Amish

-The Amish are Mennonites, a religion named after Menno Simons, an Anabaptist
-one of the shun religions, where people are shunned if they to not repent their sins
-came to PA in the 1720's, because of William Penn, lancaster county
-farmers
-lack a lot of technology
-try to stay away from society and practice their religion and farm as if it were still the 1700's

http://www.800padutch.com/amishhistory.shtml
http://www.religioustolerance.org/amish.htm

Dharma Bums Quote Response 94-120

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #101

"'You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.'"

This quote has a very deep meaning. He is saying that everyone in this world is sort of out of place, and that they have to live that way. They can't find somewhere else to go to get away from things, everything is everywhere.

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #109

"'Fun isn't everything. You've got some responsibilities sometimes, you know.'"

This is a very important quote because it reminds the main character that life isn't just a big game. That seems to be a theme in this book, that you don't have to work or have structure in your life, you just have fun. However, you can't live like that, you have to be responsible.

Dharma Bums Quote Response 72-94

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. # 83

"Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,"

Ray Smith is the person who says this. I felt that this was kind of contradictory to all of his views on life, and Buddhism. Buddhists threasure life, and being outdoors, and trying to stay in touch with nature, but at this point in the story that is not what he feels.

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #83

"'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.'"

This was not so much a quote from the book, as it is an ancient Buddhist saying. What it means is that do not stop when you think you have reached the top. You will never reach the top, you have to keep climbing even if it seems that you can't.

Dharma Bums Quote Response 49-72

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #50

"Japhy answered back with a simple "Hoo" which he said was the Indian way to call in the mountains and much nicer. So I began to yell "Hoo" myself."

This quote shows how the narrator idolizes Japhy. He believes everything that he says, and does evrything that he wants him to do. He believes that Japhy is right about almost everything, and that he is everything that the narrator wants to be. He tries to become a carbon-copy of Japhy, instead of doing things his own way.

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #63

"You know the snow's about to come here any time now. If it comes tonight it's goodbye me and you."

This quote shows how far Japhy and the narrator are willing to go to have some exitement in their life, and to be in nature. They run a risk of dying, but just laugh in the face of the danger. They see it as something that would'nt really matter, as long as they were climbing the mountain.

Dharma Bums Quote Response 25-49

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #27

"But we'd made him miss his evening of study and I felt bad about that, till the following night when he suddenly appeared at our little cottage with a pretty girl and came in and told her to take her clothes off, which she did at one."

This quote really sums up life in this time period. Drinking and sex are being taken as priorities over work. Also, it shows womens compliance to mens demands. They are shown as though their wants and feelings are unimportant.

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #27

" 'Shore, come on with us and we'll all screw ya at ten thousand feet.' "

A continuation of what is shon in the previous quote. Japhy continues his inconsiderate nature towards women. He sees them as sex toys and not fellow human beings. Still the woman complies.

Dharma Bums Quote Response 1-24

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #4

"How about a little wine to warm you up? Maybe you'd like some bread and cheese with your sardines."

This quote shows that the main character is an affectionate person. He thinks about the needs and wants of others, even if he doesn't know them. He is a very warmhearted person.

Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
p. #8

"How many human beings have there been, in fact how many living creatures have there been, since before the less part of beginningless time?"

This shows the the main character is a very inquisitve person. He thinks about these unanswerable questions to try and think and expand his mind. It is a further description of the character.

Contemporary Counter-Culture Project

Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98631,00.html
http://german.about.com/library/blaschwarz.htm

Are These Actual Miles? Quote Response

Carver, Are These Actual Miles?
page # 584

1) "Once, last winter, during the holidays when Toni and the kids were visiting his mother's, Leo brought a woman home."

This quote is important to the story in many ways. It shows Leo's character, and how he is not satisfied with his relationship or just life in general. That maybe he needs more excitement in his life. It also conforms to the same aspects of the fifties that other authors have shown, the classic affair

2) "He listens to the traffic on the highway and considers whether he should go to the basement, stand on the utility sink, and hang himself with his belt."

Leo has gone bankrupt, and his life is spiraling downward fast. This quote shows the general attitude toward life in the 50's, and the regular life in the 50's. People were having monetary problems, relationship problems, and some had drinking problems. Leo has all three of these in this story, and he expresses his feelings by contemplating suicide.