Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind. ✨ Jack…

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Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind. ✨ Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). Selected letters, 1940-1956, Penguin Paperbacks
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