The Dharma Bums

What are you bringing? " "Well earlier than I inform you approximately meals, R-a-a-y" (sometimes he referred to as me through my first identify and regularly while he did so, it used to be a long-drawn-out unhappy "R-a-a-a-y" as if he used to be wor­ried approximately my welfare), "I've received your sound asleep bag, it is not a duck down like my very own, and of course much heavier, yet with outfits on and an excellent sizeable hearth you will be cozy up there. " "Clothes on yeah, yet why a tremendous hearth, it is only October. " "Yeah yet it really is under freezing up there, R-a-a-y, in October," he acknowledged unfortunately. "At evening? " "Yeah at evening and within the sunlight hours it really is actual hot and delightful. you recognize outdated John Muir used to move as much as these mountains the place we are going with not anything yet his outdated military coat and a paper bag jam-packed with dried bread and he slept in his coat and simply soaked the previous bread in water while he desired to devour, and he roamed round like that for months prior to tramping again to town. " "My goodness he musta been tricky! " "Now as for meals, I went right down to industry road to the Crystal Palace marketplace and purchased my favourite dry cereal, bulgur, that's one of those a Bulgarian cracked tough wheat and i am going to stay items of bacon in it, little sq. chunks, that'll make an exceptional supper for all 3 folks, Morley and us. and i am bringing tea, you usually need a reliable cup of scorching tea below these chilly stars. and i am bringing actual choco­late pudding, no longer that speedy phony stuff yet reliable chocolate pudding that i will convey to a boil and stir over the fireplace after which permit it cool ice chilly within the snow. " "Oh boy! " "So insteada rice this time, which I often deliver, 1 idea i might make a pleasant delicacy for you, R-a-a-y, and within the bulgur too i will throw in every kind of dried diced greens i purchased on the Ski store. we will have our supper and breakfast outa this, and for strength foodstuff this tremendous bag of peanuts and raisins and one other bag with dried apricot and dried prunes oughta repair us for the remaining. " And he confirmed me the very tiny bag during which all this crucial foodstuff for 3 grown males for 24 hours or extra mountain climbing at excessive altitudes was once saved. "The major factor in going to mountains is to maintain the burden as some distance down as attainable, these packs get heavy. " "But my God there is not sufficient nutrients in that little bag! " "Yes there's, the water swells it up. " "Do we convey wine? " "No it's not any sturdy up there and as soon as you are at excessive altitude and drained you do not crave alcohol. " i did not think this yet acknowledged not anything. We placed my very own issues at the motorcycle and walked around the campus to his position pushing the motorbike alongside the sting of the sidewalk. It was once a funky transparent Arabian evening nightfall with the tower clock of college of Cal a fresh black shadow opposed to a backdrop of cypress and eucalyptus and every kind of bushes, bells ringing someplace, and the air crisp. "It's going to be chilly up there," acknowledged Japhy, yet he was once feel­ing nice that evening and laughed while I requested him approximately subsequent Thursday with Princess. "You recognize we performed yabyum two times extra due to the fact that final evening, she comes over to my shack any day or evening any minute and guy she will not take no for a solution.