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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road
October 12, 2023 at 4:27 AM
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"We were suddenly driving along the blue waters of the Gulf, and at the same time a momentous mad thing began on the radio; it was the Chicken Jazz'n Gumbo disk-jockey show from New Orleans..."

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February 26, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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September 5, 2023 at 4:00 PM
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In the original version, real names were used.
Dean instead of Neal.
April 16, 2024 at 5:54 PM
This prompted Truman Capote to sneer, " That isn't writing; it's typing." #Kerouac24
April 13, 2024 at 10:22 PM
As in a dream we zoomed through small crossroads towns smack out of the darkness, and passed long lines of lounging harvest hands and cowboys in the night. (5)
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April 17, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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April 13, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go.
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April 19, 2024 at 2:09 PM
“What’s your road, man?—holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It’s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?” 4.1
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April 27, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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“Isn't that a fire or something over there?" We both looked toward the sun.
"You mean the sun?"
April 23, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Allen Ginsberg is Carlo Marx.
William Burroughs is Old Bull Lee.
John Clellon Holmes is Tom Saybrook.
Herbert Huncke is Elmo Hassel.
Kerouac is Sal Paradise.
Cassady is Dean Moriarty.
April 16, 2024 at 1:55 PM
all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it . . .
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April 29, 2024 at 7:09 PM
All alone in the night I had my own thoughts and held the car to the white line in the holy road. What was I doing? Where was I going? (2.6)
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April 22, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Whoo, Frisco nights, the end of the continent and the end of doubt, all dull doubt and tomfoolery, good-by.
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April 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM
I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air—air you can kiss—and palms.

. . . and suddenly the vast expanse of the bay (it was just before dawn) with the sleepy lights of Frisco festooned across. (11)
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April 19, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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The story ended far too quickly. Thank you dear Reem and bookbirds for the journey together!

Nachwort
April 30, 2024 at 5:29 AM

"Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America"

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April 24, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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“But it isn't as simple as that," warned Dean. "Peace will come suddenly, we won't understand when it does….”
April 22, 2024 at 7:27 PM
And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, . . .
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April 24, 2024 at 4:10 PM