*Ø* Blogmanac | June 14 1964 | "You're either on the bus or you're not on the bus" (Kesey)
American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) Ken Kesey (Sep 7, 1935-Nov 10, 2001) and his band of Merry Pranksters, including Ken Babbs and Neal Cassady at the wheel, left Perry Lane in Furthur, their psychedelic 1939 International Harvester school bus, and began their legendary cross-country bus trip to the 1964 World's Fair in New York.
There they attended a publication party for Kesey's new novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, checked out the World's Fair, and paid a visit to Timothy Leary and his associates at the Millbrook estate of William Hitchcock.
They arrived in New York City in mid-July 1964 and were introduced to Jack Kerouac at a fateful party. Details of the trip came to be chronicled by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
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Some quotes by Kesey
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer-- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
When you don’t know where you’re going, you have to stick together just in case someone gets there.
Shop Ken Kesey
American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) Ken Kesey (Sep 7, 1935-Nov 10, 2001) and his band of Merry Pranksters, including Ken Babbs and Neal Cassady at the wheel, left Perry Lane in Furthur, their psychedelic 1939 International Harvester school bus, and began their legendary cross-country bus trip to the 1964 World's Fair in New York.
There they attended a publication party for Kesey's new novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, checked out the World's Fair, and paid a visit to Timothy Leary and his associates at the Millbrook estate of William Hitchcock.
They arrived in New York City in mid-July 1964 and were introduced to Jack Kerouac at a fateful party. Details of the trip came to be chronicled by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Some quotes by Kesey
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer-- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
When you don’t know where you’re going, you have to stick together just in case someone gets there.
Shop Ken Kesey
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