Spadekicks Revisited! By Dr Patrick ODougherty

Jack Kerouac wrote a critical thinking essay in American literature entitled  Spadekicks.

Spadekicks stands in my mind a counter to Coleridege writings.

Jack Kerouac,On the Road,  is a reaction formation to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, for example,  biographia literaria. The head of the Beat Generation died in St Petersburg October 21st, 1969. 

James ODougherty—Irish Catholic a part French Canadian, English Teacher, from Maple Lake, Mn. 

My father was a very handsome idealistic twinkle in his eye Irish man 

Who carried a rosary in his pocket and could quote Coleridge passages, and the Gospel of St Mark verbatim. Our family home had the Harvard Classics, Colman Barrie’s An Irish Catholic In German America, Kristen Lavranstaddter, Dom Virgil Michel 

the Liturgical Movement. 

This is a Clarion Call for a Critical Interpretation of Jack Kerouac from St Petersburg, FL the home to Commercial Airlines, commercial flight. It is a commercial hub. 

A Turning Away!

Jack Kerouac turned away from the August pillars of Catholicism in his home town of Lowell, Massachusetts and listened and followed the beat of new minorities in America. His wanderings across America produced an American Zen Bible. He researched lost Asia authors art forms like the Haiku 5/ 7/5 form and wrote American styled Haikus. “On the Road” has an open free style with invented DASH punctuation. What was the punctuation style of ancient religious  texts like the Biblical  texts written in Hebrew and Aramaic? Jack Kerouac came up with a new scrolled text with original punctuation. He broke cannon by listening to great jazz musicians like Theolonius monk and then writing his scroll.

He wrote his essays in a jazz rhythms. He also took different images found in nature and made Impressum images.  Then, built themes around these images to create a new language, an American idiom. 

Biographia Literaria

James ODougherty, my father, was an Irish Catholic French Canadian literature major and teacher  out St John’s Universitty, The English writer who fascinated him was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He would quote his poems frequently  at our Table Talk  breakfasts  in our family homes at 3317 West 44th Street and 5015 Gladstone Ave. What he loved about Samuel Taylor Coleridge was his critical interpretations approach which he translated into poems and sermons. Coleridge is a good critical measure for Jack Kerouac. His canon and rimes and leaves are hard canons played against the Jazz inspired texts of “On the Road” and “Dharma Bums.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote

Bibliography: 

+The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

+English Romantic Poetry

+Poetry for a Young People

+The Table Talk and Omniana

+Biographia  liter-aria

+Coleridge on Shakespeare

+Christabel, Kubla Khan: A Vision

+The Book of Gems: the Poets

+Biographia Epistolaris

+Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast

+Specimens of the Table Talk

+AIDS to Reflection

+The Piccolo-mini : or the First Part

+Anima Poetae

+Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists

+Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems

+A Friend: A Series of Essays

+Notes Theological

+Notes on English Divines! 

+Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

+The Fall of Robespierre: A Jacobin Leader, Head of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. He was guillotined during the Thermidor. 

+The Plot Discovered

+Conciones  Ad Populum

+Christ’s Hospital 

+The Life of Wesley

+Lay Sermons

Jack Kerouac’s Was he a Jacobin? Are his texts political?

Bibliography:

O-On the Road

O-The Dharma Bums

Do the works of Jack Kerouac 

Constitute an American Zen Bible? What is the plot of his works?How would you annotate his texts? Are these Theological Notes? Who are the American Divines in his work? Is Neal Cassidy a divine. 

Are these works Table Talks? Jack Kerouac was an Inquiring Spirit?

He was a friend of Allan Ginsberg who was an Andy Warhol Factory product. 

John Wesley was an Amistad or friend to poor folks. Is true for Jack Kerouac?  Are his texts leaves? Compare on the Road to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales! 

Death October 21st 1969 St Anthony Hospital, A Christ’s Hospital.

St Petersburg! A Cold Case Murder!

The Wheel of Law is the highest symbolism in Buddhism 

BuddhaSermon Set his law or Dharma in motion.  On the Road is ia scroll motion searching for a father. Trace the Zen Tangle of Jack Kerouac’s life in motion to the 4 Truths of Buddhism. Acts of higher nature are Dharma. Writing is Dharma. 

Four Noble Truths of Buddhism are 1 Life is suffering. 2. Suffering has cause. 3, Suffering has an End. 4 Nirvana signals sufferings end in your life. These Noble truths describe human sickness. 

8 Fold Path

The 8 fold  Path leads to Nirvana! Def. righteousness of belief, resolve, speech, action, live-hood, mediation, effort and thought. 

Nirvana requires the right mind set. Right live style. 

Bad Karma Evils are greed, hatred and delusion. Jack Kerouac was murdered a victim of bad karma in St Anthony Hospital, St Petersburg. A BEAT POET was BEATEN to Death. 

MLK Drive, St Petersburg, FL.

What type of “Pleasure Dome” is the Flamingo Bar at 1230 Dr Martin Luther King Drive N in St. Petersburg? Relate Jack Kerouac’s death to the writings of Coleridge and the human sickness of alcoholism? Ask yourself what type of personal Thermidor is this during the War in Vietnam? DASH!