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Smiling Not Smiling

A Buddhist screenwriter talks about the Beats, the bodhisattva ideal, and his award-winning screenplay of Neal Cassady.Noah Buschel

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Excerpt from Noah Buschel's screenplay "Cassady"

© Allen Ginsberg TrustCassady lights a cigarette rapidly. The Cowboy stares over.

KEROUAC

It's strange to summarize what's happened and what's gonna happen to everybody.

CASSADY

Only thing to do with a world so full of people is to count the people you meet. And not to count 'em out, but to count 'em all in. Not enough time to write about them all in the detail that each one deserves. So you count 'em in. You say, ah, there's number 15 million and three and I acknowledge her and feel like she's as great as the rest. And then you go on.

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