7/08/2011

Alphabet soup

I’m thinking if I were to spin everything I’ve ever read into a web, like a literary mandala of sorts, Jack Kerouac would fall pat-on in the middle of it but not sitting like a Buddha but more like piercing like an axle through it all: Yggdrasil as opposed to the Bodhi tree, right? Get the metaphor?

Of course there’s the Jack Kirby annex to the web as well, in permanent expansion, and that’s probably where I get all that nuttier stuff: You’d think I’d spend glorious Summer afternoons indoors back when I was a kid wolfing the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, isn’t that so? Not really. They were probably all Marvel comics anyhow.