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He was kind of a Buddha for the Beat Generation (except that he, uh, drank himself to death at an early age... oops). He cultivated both spontaneity and craft. He became an icon to thousands of kids with road fever but could have equally been a role model for the serious pursuit of any skill (his pile of notebooks, his endless revisions) -- except for the, uh, methamphetamine part). His 30 points for spontaneous writing have a Zen quality worth meditating on.
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He was kind of a Buddha for the Beat Generation (except that he, uh, drank himself to death at an early age... oops). He cultivated both spontaneity and craft. He became an icon to thousands of kids with road fever but could have equally been a role model for the serious pursuit of any skill (his pile of notebooks, his endless revisions) -- except for the, uh, methamphetamine part). His 30 points for spontaneous writing have a Zen quality worth meditating on.
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