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• On the Road, Kerouac writes, “which I keep thinking about: [is] about two guys hitch-hiking to California in search of something they don’t really find, and losing themselves on the road, and coming all the way back hopeful of something else.”
• Kerouac’s second novel should be read as a sequel to his first.
• Kerouac wrote that his work plans “overflow out of me, even in bars with perfect strangers.”
• truth is understood by Kerouac to mean, “the way consciousness really digs everything that happens.”