![]() ![]() Still, there's a genuine, urgent, poetic imperative going on - a real lust for life and self-exploration that comes from the heart. (Though Ray is in his early thirties.) And sticklers will quibble, of course, over the veracity and accuracy of the Buddhist theory and experience. A sort of youthful exuberance pervades something of the excitable teenager at times. Perhaps it's a bit naive, self-indulgent - pretentious in places. Quite Buddhist, of course, in its flavour, and not without moments of profundity. "The Dharma Bums" is a naked disquisition on all those cool existential questions. "Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so we were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?" ![]()
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