Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Semhuri yemumvura, vaMorrison vaitama-tama kakawanda. Somugumisiro, dzidzo yokutanga yaMorrison yaigara ichivhiringidzwa paaibva pane chimwe chikoro achienda pane chimwe. Kunyange zvakadaro, akafarira kudzidza mabhuku, nhetembo, zvechitendero, uzivi uye zvepfungwa, nezvimwewo. Vanyori vezvakaitika muupenyu hwaMorrison vanogara vachitaura nezvevanyori uye vazivi vakawanda vakakanganisa mafungiro aMorrison uye zvimwe maitiro ake. Paakanga achiri kuyaruka, Morrison akawana mabasa omuzivi wokuGermany Friedrich Nietzsche. Aifarirawo nhetembo dzaWilliam Blake, Charles Baudelaire, naArthur Rimbaud. Vanyori veBeat Generation vakaita saJack Kerouac nevanyori vane rusununguko vakaita saMarquis de Sade vaivewo nehunhu hwakasimba pamaonero aMorrison uye nzira yekutaura; Morrison aida chaizvo kuona hupenyu hunotsanangurwa muKerouac's On the Road. Iye nenzira yakafanana akakweverwa kubasa romunyori weFrance Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Bhuku raCéline, Voyage Au Bout de la Nuit (Rwendo Rwekuguma Kweusiku) naBlake's Auguries of Innocence zvese zvinodzokorora kuburikidza nerimwe rwiyo rwekutanga rwaMorrison, "Kuguma Kweusiku".Morrison akazosangana ndokuita hushamwari naMichael McClure, mudetembi anozivikanwa weBeat. McClure akanga afarira mashoko aMorrison asi akatoororwa zvikuru nenhetembo dzake uye akamukurudzira kuti awedzere kukudziridza unyanzvi hwake. Chiono chaMorrison chekuita chakasvibiswa nemabasa emunyori wemitambo wechiFrench wezana ramakore rechi20 Antonin Artaud (munyori weTheatre uye Double) uye naJulian Beck's Living Theatre.Mamwe mabasa ane chekuita nechitendero, mashura, ngano dzekare uye chiratidzo zvaive zvekunakidzwa kwenguva refu, kunyanya naJoseph Campbell's The Hero ane Zviso Zviuru. James Frazer's The Golden Bough yakavawo manyuko okufuridzirwa uye inoratidzwa mumusoro uye mazwi erwiyo "Kwete Kubata Pasi". Morrison ainyanya kukwezvwa nengano uye zvitendero zvetsika dzevaNative American. Paakanga achiri kuchikoro, mhuri yake yakatamira kuNew Mexico kwaakaona dzimwe nzvimbo uye zvigadzirwa zvakakosha kuAmerican Southwest...  Mubvunzo: Nhetembo dzipi dzakapesvedzera kufunga kwaMorrison
William Blake, Charles Baudelaire, naArthur Rimbaud