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The Dharma Bums
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1958
- Pages
- Pages 240
A young writer riding freight trains falls in with a mountain-climbing Zen poet in California, who teaches him to hike, meditate and live on almost nothing. When his friend sails for Japan, he spends a summer alone as a fire lookout on a mountaintop.
while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars
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