Friday, July 20, 2012

Jack Kerouac, from "Desolation Angels"

Me’n Sliv stand bouncing to the beat and finally the girl in the skirt comes talk to us, it’s Gia Valencia, the daughter of the mad Spanish anthropologist sage who’d lived with the Pomo and Pit River Indians of California, famous old man, whom I’d read and revered only three years ago while working the railroad outa San Luis Obispo—“Bug, give me back my shadow!” he yelled on a recorded tape before he died, showing how the Indians made it at brooks in old California pre-history before San Fran and Clark Gable and Al Jolson and Rose Wise Lazuli and the jazz of the mixed generations—Out there’s all that sun and shade as same as old doodlebug time, but the Indians are gone, and old Valencia is gone, and all’s left is his charming erudite daughter with her hands in her pockets digging the jazz—She’s also talking to all the goodlooking men, black and white, she likes em all—They like her—To me she suddenly says “Arent you going to call Irwin Garden?”
"Sure I just got into town!"
"You're Jack Duluoz aren't you!"
"And yeah, you're—"

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  1. Jaime de Angulo [viz., "Valencia"] reading from his Indian Tales, "The Story of the Gilak Monster and his Sister the Ceremonial Drum:"

    http://media.sas.upenn.edu/jacket2/mp3/Alcheringa/Alcheringa_New_V1N1_1_Angulo-Jaime-de_Gilak-Monster-and-Sister_1975.mp3

    http://media.sas.upenn.edu/jacket2/mp3/Alcheringa/Alcheringa_New_V1N1_2_Angulo-Jaime-de_Gilak-Monster-and-Sister_1975.mp3

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