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INTERVIEWER
How come you’ve never written about Jesus? You’ve written about Buddha. Wasn’t Jesus a great guy too?
KEROUAC
I’ve never written about Jesus? In other words, you’re an insane phony who comes to my house . . . and . . . all I write about is Jesus. I am Everhard Mercurian, General of the Jesuit Army.
SAROYAN
What’s the difference between Jesus and Buddha?
KEROUAC
That’s a very good question. There is no difference.
SAROYAN
No difference?
KEROUAC
But there is a difference between the original Buddha of India, and the Buddha of Vietnam who just shaves his hair and puts on a yellow robe and is a communist agitating agent. The original Buddha wouldn’t even walk on young grass so that he wouldn’t destroy it. He was born in Gorakhpur, the son of the consul of the invading Persian hordes. And he was called Sage of the Warriors, and he had seventeen thousand broads dancing for him all night, holding out flowers, saying you want to smell it, my lord? He says Git outta here you whore. He laid a lot of them you know.
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| Guillaume Apollinaire, William S. Burroughs, Malcolm Cowley, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Olson, Ron Padgett, Gary Snyder, Gertrude Stein, Philip Whalen, Thomas Wolfe, William Bissett, Lucien Carr, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Clellon Holmes, Peter Orlovsky, Blaise Pascal, Kenneth Rexroth, William Saroyan, William Shakespeare, Masaoka Shiki |
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