I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. On…

Jack Kerouac
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I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless extremes; beseeching at the portals of the soft source, mad with a completely phsycial realization of the origins of life-bliss; blindly seeking to return the way he came ✨ Jack Kerouac (2007). Road Novels 1957-1960
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