liere were also familiars, along with most of the French existentialist philosophers. Jim's senior-year English teacher still talk about Jim’s reading habits: "Jim read as much and probably more than any student in class. But everything he read was so offbeat I had another teacher who was going to the Library of Congress check to see if the books Jim was reporting on actually existed. I suspected he was making them up, as they were English books on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century demonology. I'd never heard of them. But they existed, and I'm convinced from the paper he wrote that he read them, and the Library of Congress would've been the only source."No doubt, Jim was becoming a writer. He had begun to keep journals, spiral notebooks that he would fill with his daily observations and thoughts. Jim's studies brought him across many of the dilemmas of these great writers. Through the alcoholism of Dylan Thomas, the homosexuality of Ginsberg, and the madness and addiction of so many more, Jim saw their pages become a mirror in which he saw his own reflection. The notion of poetry had now taken hold on the still young Jim Morrison.The greatly controversial lyrics and actions of the newly forming Doors, were created by Jim's now corrupted mind. Now at the age of twenty, Jim was writing regularly. He has just quit film school at UCLA, and moved to the Venice Beach area. Through his alcoholic and psychedelic hazed mind ran the songs and lyrics of an unknown concert. As one song finished, the next one started. These songs became the Doors. "Break on through," was his way of expressing the opening of the doors. His songs and poems were the historical collection of writings from great philosophers and poets alike. His notebooks and intellect are now the basis of the Doors and the foreshadow of his death. All of the past is now part of the present and the songs all come from the same root. Jim's adoption of Aldous Hux...
