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Kerouac. P. 170

“ ‘Aw maybe I'm getting tired of that. After I come back from the monastery in Japan I’ll probably have my fill of it anyhow. Maybe I’ll be rich and work and make a lot of money and live in a big house.’ But a minute later: ‘ and who wants to enslave himself to a lot of all that, though?’”

This is the first place where we have seen Japhy as weak, divided, and not completely sure that Buddhism is the only way to happiness. He even goes as far to say that he will make a lot of money. This is like blasphemy to Buddhists. He goes back to hating money though in just a few minutes. This unstable Japhy is one that we do not know.


Kerouac p. 157

“The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which always identify with the roaring of the diamond of wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you’ve seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.”

This quote tells about how silence can be louder than actual noise. This noise can tell much more than actual noises. It is the sound of everything. Because it is the sound of nothing.