“Tranced Fixations” — Kerouac’s Breakthrough

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On October 7, 1951, Jack went to Birdland to hear the alto saxophonist Lee
Konitz.  The music sounded "so profoundly
interior" to Jack that he was sure very few people would understand it.
In fact, he compared Konitz's extended phrases to the sentences he was
writing lately.  Jack saw that he and the musician were essentially doing the same thing.

A Screw Falls Out of the Machine: The Birth of a Psychonaut

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Mushrooms taught me that karma is
real. DMT taught me that there is life
after death. How could I fight a war? I was supposed to get on a plane and fly up to the base for duty. No doubt
that's when they would serve me my deployment papers. I decide …

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