Tales of Tomorrow

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<center>After city, City, CITY, by Jack Kerouac</center>


He not only saved her life; he gave her the world. Now she must be stopped!

A minor operation on her brain would make her normal again. But she has had twenty five years of hunger, no clothes, no future, that's all behind her now. She has great plans for the world. She don't want no stinking operation.

She is completely without morals and conscience. They stood in her way so she adapted out of them. So she splits.

Later the news from Washington D.C. is not good. They are calling a certain lady the new cabinet member.




https://svc.aauw.org/museum/portrait/19 ... /index.cfm

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The literary idiocy of Gertrude Stein only reflects the madness of the whole system of capitalist values. It is part of the signs of doom that are written largely everywhere on the walls of bourgeois society.


English 88, Spring 1995, Reading Schedule

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Abbreviations used in the schedule
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Extensive and Intensive Americans
Chapter 2 - Modernism
Chapter 3 - The Reaction "against" Modernism: The Radical Thirties
Chapter 4 - The Reaction "against" Modernism: The Harlem Renaissance & Its Legacy
Chapter 5 - The Reaction "against" Modernism: The Formalist Backlash
Chapter 6 - Poetry at the End of Ideology: The "New Formalists" of the 1950s
Chapter 7 - Breaking Fifties' Conformity: Beatitude & Confession
Chapter 8 - The New York Poets & the Rise of Postmodernism
Chapter 9 - You Can't Say It That Way Anymore
Conclusion - The Grammar Turned and Attacked Me (Part 2)


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hard to be hip
as if I know
what is happening
or if I ever did know
or thought I did know
what is going on
in the world about me.

I am lost
in thoughts of female world domination
or something like that

Like Kerouac meets the American Association of University Women.

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STRANGE HORIZONS

cityCityCITY: Jack Kerouac's Science Fiction

"Master Center Love" (MCL) ("which had for centuries emanated from the inner core of the High Women of the world") controls this new world. Children are born in central facilities and distributed to "parents" in "Zone Blocks" assigned by MCL's "Computer of Infinite Merit." The world is divided into billions of these Zone Blocks, each comprising "only about" 2,500 people. The "horror" (as Kerouac put it) at the core of this society is made clear:




http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/200 ... ac-a.shtml

also

CityCityCity: Kerouac's message to Burroughs?
http://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com ... take1.html