Published the year after On the Road, FTP, name this novel by Jack Kerouac whose title refers to "wandering Buddhas."
"Pretty girls make graves" is a favorite saying of this novel's narrator, indicating his belief that lust leads to conception which leads to death. Still, he engages in the sexual game of yabyum with Princess and his poet roommate Alvah, the author of a long poem called "Wail." The protagonist then climbs the Matterhorn peak of California's Sawtooth range with his Buddhist frined Japhy Ryder, an ecstatic experience which makes Ray Smith prophecy a "rucksack revolution" to come. In this roman a clef, Ryder represents Gary Snyder and Alvah represents Allan Ginsberg. Published the year after On the Road, FTP, name this novel by Jack Kerouac whose title refers to "wandering Buddhas."
"Pretty girls make graves" is a favorite saying of this novel's narrator, indicating his belief that lust leads to conception which leads to death.
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