List of Essentials
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Getting drunk in public can be dangerous because you aren’t yourself. Additionally, there’s much to observe and think about while out in the world that drunkenness may obscure. 
 If getting inebriated is saved for the home, you can be in comfortable peace and focus on writing. (So says Kerouac, anyway. Drinking in the house often means drinking alone, and that can be its own kind of problem…) 
 Kerouac was a severe alcoholic, and unfortunately wasn’t always the best follower of his own advice. 

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