what’s in a name

going to start this site off right, by giving credit where credit is due. The name “Shooting Stars of Thought” comes from a line in On The Road that goes a little something like this:
“There’s nothing to life but the living of it…hold still man, regain your love of life and go down from [...]

By Lauren Duffy

going to start this site off right, by giving credit where credit is due. The name “Shooting Stars of Thought” comes from a line in On The Road that goes a little something like this:

“There’s nothing to life but the living of it…hold still man, regain your love of life and go down from this mountain and simply be-be-be the infinite fertilities of the one mind of infinity. make no comments, complaints, criticisms, appraisials, avowals, sayings, shooting stars of thought, just flow, flow, be you all, be your what it is, it is only what it always is…so shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.”

No one but Jack Kerouac could so effortlessly coin a term for all the flying, fleeting thoughts that run through our heads…

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