The Dharma Bums-quote response

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*I went out to the privy and, coming back, wishing to surprise Japhy with a Zen trick I threw the roll of toilet paper through the open window and he let out a big Samurai Warrior roar and appeared on the windowsill in his boots and shorts with a dagger in his hand and jumped fifteen feet down into the loggy yard.
--After hes says privy I am completely dumbfounded. To me, privy is used as the word for bathroom by Australians. I tought that Ray portrayed Kerouac whom in turn I believed to be English. I was shocked after I read that...and somewhat dissapointed. Privy is such a weird word to me that when I read that for some reason immediatly "YUCK" popped into my head. Other than that the quote really had no meaning to me.

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* "You love her, don't you?" "You damn right, I oughta marry her myself." "But she's your sister." "I don't give a goddamn. She needs a real man like me. You don't know how wild she is, you weren't brought up with her in the woods."
--Japhy turned out to be quite the disturbed and disturbing man. Not only does he get fed up with his sister's fiance because he thinks that the guy sucks, but he has it in his head that he ought to marry her instead! This is incest and inbreeding. Another thing it is is disgusting and the fact that Japhy portrays one of Kerouac's real live friends frightens me. However, if that is how he really feels abotu his sister, then I believe he should pursue his dreams and invest in true love as logn as his sister truly felt the same way. Individuals need to learn to be happy with themselves and treat themselves with respect , once in a whiel giving in to their sheer desires.