Started "On The Road" It's pretty good. Easy to consume. I saw a documentary about Alan Ginsberg recently, which made reading it more poignant.

I'm not going to read "Moral Animal" but has anyone read "Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor Frankl? It is so good, and heart wrenching.

Lolita was gorgeously written, which made the obsessive, maladjusted thought processes more palatable.

Kafka's "The Trial" made me feel frustrated, and irritable. How about Camus' "The Stranger"?

According to my reading of Eneagram profiling. I'm a "Giver", which sounded good at first, but isn't - not really anyway. However, it's probably pretty accurate. Some other personality profile - I really can't remember said I was a "Mentor" I think I like the sound of that better.
I knocked out a book called "Hand Psychology" by Andrew Fitzherbert yesterday. I always thought it would be fun to read palms. It's a quick read, but a logical and practical approach to understanding personalities by looking at hands. Think about it.

Finished On The Road. It was really fun. He was so fun, and happy, and easy. Too bad he died so young.

What I liked so much about Sal was his free-spirit. He would not be tied down, and didn't feel guilty about that. No one expected much of him either. The people he hung with were degenerates, and he needed and enjoyed that. That would be great for a summer, or a year. Running back and forth, barely surviving, but surviving. Loving, and pleasing each other. Noticing the little things. Accepting people for who they are. But I have to wonder if he was really happy in all that. Surely he knew there was more for him - better experiences, and even more enlightened &/or intellectual people to inspire him. Maybe that's why he had to let Dean go.

I envy a person who can stay so tight with friends. I have a lot of people in my life, but not a lot that I would want to spend exhaustive amounts of time with. That has always been reserved for the guy in my life. That would be restrictive for me to have so many people to please, and respond to. Somehow it worked for Sal, and surely so many others. I guess I'm too easy to compromise, and so I put myself out of harms way by not having too many people looking for me to make that compromise.

Sal's spirit is an inspiration. I will miss that.