Tuesday 2 February 2010

Try this

'And you look up at that unbelievably high bridge and feel death and for a good reason: because underneath the bridge, in the sand right beside the sea cliff, hump, your heart sinks to see it: the automobile that crashed thru the bridge rail a decade ago and fell 1000 feet straight down and landed upsidedown, is still there now, an upsidedown chassis of rust in a strewn skitter of sea-eaten tires, old spokes, old car seats sprung with straw, one sad fuel pump and no more people-'

Big Sur - Jack Kerouac

2 comments:

  1. I think I heard this on the radio the other day and it made me sit still for a minute too

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