They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from t…

Jack Kerouac
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They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.153, Penguin
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They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.153, Penguin

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