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2023-06-17 17:34:19

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Steve Silberman escreveu a seguinte publicação Sat, 17 Jun 2023 06:02:39 -0300

A man named Dan worked for the Rand Corporation in the mid-Sixties, analyzing data. While he was working there he came across Jack Kerouac's books, and he read On the Road and Dharma Bums, and was particularly intrigued by Kerouac's portrait of a <br />character based on the poet Gary Snyder, who K. renamed Japhy Rider in his novels. At the end of Dharma Bums, Japhy Ryder goes off to Japan and there visits a rock garden in Kyoto. It's a scene Dan never forgot. Later, Dan got a job at the Pentagon, where <br />he was analyzing sensitive war data, and at one point his work took him to Japan. He still remembered the description of the Kyoto garden, so he went to Kyoto to see it for himself. After visiting the rock garden, he went to a bar, where he had trouble <br />reading the menu, which was in Japanese. Two Americans at the bar noticed he was having difficulty and came over to help him. They joined him at his table and began talking. When they introduced each other Dan discovered that one of the Americans was Gary <br />Snyder. Dan looked closely at Snyder and said, “You're the reason | came to Kyoto.” The three men ended up talking all night about the war in Vietnam and their feelings about the Pentagon and general issues about war and peace. Even though Dan was <br />working for the Pentagon and Snyder and his friend were dharma bums and wild and wooly poets, they found a way to talk to each other with mutual respect and to make a personal connection....

RIP #DanielEllsberg. This account of how #poet Gary Snyder inspired the Pentagon Papers whistleblower is one of the most fascinating and least-known literary anecdotes of all time. Via #BeatGeneration scholar Randy Roark.

Via @Alexandre B A Villares 🐍

2023-06-17 17:35:00

Alexandre Hannud Abdo

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And related:

https://tricycle.org/magazine/gary-snyder-and-the-most-dangerous-man-america/