You Can't See Their Faces on Route 66
The Blurry Allure of the Open Road
Jack Kerouac
Kerouac and Cassady Pick Up a Hitchhiker
Sal’s and Dean’s wanderings are exercises in detachment. The road detaches them from the binding conventionalities of normal society. As a result, they are able to enjoy everything and everyone, even the most disgusting, because they are able, in their unique way, to see God’s stamp of
The Difference Between Rebelling Against the Establishment and Rebelling Against the establishment (small "e")
My Dad was fiercely conservative. A full-blown WASP, albeit of the first-generation sort, his parents having migrated from Russia shortly before 1917. We used to drink beer at a local dive bar and discuss sundry (and sudsy) topics. During one conversation, I told him I was reading On the Road
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
A Micro-Review/Essay
“We’ve finally got to heaven. It couldn’t be cooler, it couldn’t be grander, it couldn’t be anything.”
The elves of Middle Earth longed for the sea, even if they didn’t know it. A wood elf might spend his entire eviternal existence without