"What I'd learned on the solitary mountain all summer, the Vision on Desolation Peak, I tried to bring down to the world and to my friends in San Francisco, but they, involved in the strictures of time and life, rather than the eternity and solitude of mountain snowy rocks, had a lesson to teach me themselves- Besides, the vision of the freedom of eternity which I saw and which all wilderness hermitage saints have seen, is of little use in cities and warring societies such as we have- What a world is this, not only that friendship cancels enmity, but enmity doth cancel friendship and the grave and the urn cancel all-"ĭesolation Angels, by Jack Kerouac, directly follows the plot of The Dharma Bums, beginning where that novel ended, with 63 days of solitude on Desolation Peak in the Cascade Range of Washington State.
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