The Sea Is My Brother by Jack Kerouac

Author:Jack Kerouac [Ward, M. Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780306822476
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2019-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

The music goes on, the old couple dances on with grim determination, the boys drink on, and the critic mops his brow.

CRITIC: But this is still too weak for Broadway. There is no plot, no suspense. Just a lot of talk.

ZAGG: No plot and no suspense, no, but there has been plot and suspense in the lives of all of us. If you wish, I’ll write my next play with a plot. How about the time that Sebastian told a girl that he loved her on the street, and then went to a canal and contemplated suicide because she wouldn’t marry him. How about the time that Mouse came home from a long journey to find his brother dead and buried. How about the time that Mouse and I took a drunk home one night and almost died of fright when he hit his head on his stove and looked dead - - - and the fog outside, and the night and mystery in it. How about the time that Nick was the only friend in my life when I came home once, all my other friends being away. Oh, I could think of a million plots and a million moments of suspense. But what happens here now is just a little square piece of life, I think, cut out of the main pattern with a razor blade and displayed to a plot-conscious Broadway audience and of course they won’t like it. Why there have been fights in here, great big arguments, tremendous love affairs, fine music, darkness and light, jollity and sadness, nostalgia and callousness, beer and whiskey . . . everything. It’s just a small, insignificant corner of the world in which you had the privilege to sit tonight. You are a Broadway critic; I am a casual poet. We don’t mix, but I like you because you are in the same boat. As Nick says, you are right smack in it with us.

CRITIC: I see. It certainly is the way you wrote about it. But I’m wondering whether it will go on Broadway.

ZAGG: I really don’t care. The money and fame would of course bloat me up, but I always have the satisfaction of knowing that I have released all this great life onto paper, and made it immortal.

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