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Mads' homanvality until the vmnd half of WoImiion Angels (wim in I%L),"
although aha pwinuly prbkhd Beat Oencyation bmh, rmtlbly Go and Julb'c.''
Awnher of the ideals of Ihe BeU monmmt. u m y be apparent fmm the
discussion above, is sexual medan. This, it would yem. mtndim Ule Third Preapt
of IMdhiSm. rn rud mivonduft Kaouac, hawever, did a mp4 to pnr& lbrtinmce
whcn he began dying Buddhism in nmcst. This mwcmd his Mend. Wflism S.
Burmughs, who mte m Kemusc:
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I un't help but feeling Uut you are ping 03 far with your hbre chastity.
hid-, ma3Nrbation is nor chastity, it is jun a way of sidestepping the ieue
without even appm~~hrg the rolutian."
This mmpt m practise chastity -nu for Keroudc'l E I ~ Em C join in the yem
rid doeW in 7k DhwM Ems. Kerounc wim:
But m top of dl that, the frelingr about FTinarS I'd ala gme thmvgh an atire
year of celibacy bPscd on my feeling Iha lun wu the d m am of birth which
-the dim cause of wlfferine and death and 1 M d v no tie come w a mint
where I mg&A lust u affenzve and evm d....
AU.h -ful cetibky of
my Buddhjwn w going down the drain. 'Smith. I disrmn any social syrm Iha
puts dawn sex.' said Japhy quite scholarly now Uut he wu done and dmng n W
" Wuipm S. Burmughs, Junkie (Nnv Ynk: Ace Bank. 1953)
* W h S. Bunoughs, b Jack Kemuac (man* Aug. 18, 1954). in Bunwghr.
7k Lurcrs @MIlim S. Ewmugk, Otiva Harrir, rd. (Tmnm: ViEng. 1993). pp. 225
226.