Word: satori
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...SATORI IN PARIS, by Jack Kerouac. The zestful, pie-eyed piper of the beats relates the details of a wacky safari to France in a vain effort to track down some supposedly noble Kerouac ancestors...
...SATORI IN PARIS, by Jack Kerouac. An account of a beat writer's ribald search for some noble French ancestors, told with gusto and amusing dropout grammar...
...SATORI IN PARIS by Jack Kerouac. 118 pages. Grove...
...changed in all that time, as who would change a name that simply means House (Ker), in the Field (Ouac)." Yet the bounce and burble of Kerouac's gusto and dropout grammar carry the reader along his wacky safari. Actually, Kerouac claims that it was less safari than satori (the Japanese zen term for sudden illumination), although it is not clear just what the satori conveyed...
Married. Jack Kerouac, 44, head beatnik and Zen brother to a now fading generation, who has written a dozen books about it (On the Road, the just-published Satori in Paris); and Stella Sampas, 47, manager of a dry-cleaning plant; he for the third time, she for the first; in Hyannis, Mass...