''The Scripture of the Golden Eternity'' is a book of 66 prose poems written by American

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and

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Jack Kerouac, first published in 1960 by Corinth Books,

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. The book is Kerouac’s sutra on

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, in which he describes a "Golden Eternity" that is paradoxically everything and nothing.''The Scripture of the Golden Eternity'' by Jack Kerouac The 66 prose poems or "meditations" deal mainly with the nature of consciousness and the impermanence of existence. The main influence is

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, but the use of the word "scripture" in the title alludes to Kerouac's

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upbringing and influences, evident in this work and others.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scripture Of The Golden Eternity, The 1960 poetry books Books by Jack Kerouac American poetry collections