How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, …

Jack Kerouac
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How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1958). The Subterraneans, p.74, Grove Press
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How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract. ✨ Jack Kerouac (1958). The Subterraneans, p.74, Grove Press

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