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.