My eyes are bad. I couldn't understand the connection between skipping class to play "hockey" but reading in the library. It all became clear and sensical upon a third reading when my eyes and my brain came into a joint focus and hockey was replaced by hookey. While I never played hookey (excepting Pirate home opener day more a ritual, rite of passsge) or hockey, I can relate to learning more from reading rather than sitting before a droning teacher. You can love learning and dislike schooling. Although learning is always more productive when it's guided. I'm wondering, did old Jack have any guides when it came to personal enlightenment as he was growing up?
Jack had many guides as a youngster. His mother and father, the religious sisters and the Jesuit brothers who taught him in the two different elementary schools he attended, Father "Spike" Morrisette, the parish priest he spoke often with as a high school student and who was the celebrant of Kerouac's funeral Mass. Also, in a matter of speaking, the example of his older brother, Gerard, who died at age nine.
Well, that question is fodder for a PhD dissertation, but a first thought is I guess the same as one might explain the antics of many 25-year-olds who enjoyed similar early formative benefits ... including yours truly!
My eyes are bad. I couldn't understand the connection between skipping class to play "hockey" but reading in the library. It all became clear and sensical upon a third reading when my eyes and my brain came into a joint focus and hockey was replaced by hookey. While I never played hookey (excepting Pirate home opener day more a ritual, rite of passsge) or hockey, I can relate to learning more from reading rather than sitting before a droning teacher. You can love learning and dislike schooling. Although learning is always more productive when it's guided. I'm wondering, did old Jack have any guides when it came to personal enlightenment as he was growing up?
Jack had many guides as a youngster. His mother and father, the religious sisters and the Jesuit brothers who taught him in the two different elementary schools he attended, Father "Spike" Morrisette, the parish priest he spoke often with as a high school student and who was the celebrant of Kerouac's funeral Mass. Also, in a matter of speaking, the example of his older brother, Gerard, who died at age nine.
Thanks. How'd all that positive influence result in the antics and person of On the Road?
Well, that question is fodder for a PhD dissertation, but a first thought is I guess the same as one might explain the antics of many 25-year-olds who enjoyed similar early formative benefits ... including yours truly!
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