On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Well allright Neal, but please be sure and be back at three.” “Just as I said, darling, and remember not three but three-fourteen---are we straight in the deepest and most wonderful depths of our souls dear darling?” and he went over and kissed her several times. On the wall was a nude drawing of Neal, enormous dangle and all, done by Carolyn. I w

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world of ours.

“Come on man, those girls won’t wait, make it fast,” and I said “Hold on just a minute, I’ll be right with you soon as I finish this chapter,” and I did and it was one of the best chapters in the whole book. Then I dressed and off we flew to NY to meet some girls.

“Yes of course, I know exactly what you mean and in fact those problems have occurred to me but the thing that I want is the realization of those factors that should one depend on Schopenhauer’s dichotomy for any inwardly realized…” and on and on in that way, things I understood not a bit and he himself didn’t, and what I mean is, in those days he

“You gotta, you gotta or you’ll die! Damn fool talk to her! What’s wrong with you? Aren’t you tired of yourself by now?”

Her brother was a wildbuck Mexican hotcat with a hunger for booze, a great good kid.

His relation with Allen I’m not in on and as it turned out later, Neal got tired of that, specifically of queerness and reverted to his natural ways, but that’s no matter.

Writing is my work…so I’ve got to move.”

after all what do I really know about it except you’ve got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict,”