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Visions of Cody

Visions of Cody

Visions of Cody is an experimental novel by Jack Kerouac. It was written in 1951–1952, and though not published in its entirety until 1972, it had by then achieved an underground reputation. Since its first printing, Visions of Cody has been published with an introduction by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg titled "The Visions of the Great Rememberer."


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“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die”

In the loneliness of my life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother far away, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our death, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid...
Visions of Cody (1960)

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“It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now”

girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
Visions of Cody (1960)

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