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This sounds like … (part 9).
(AUDIO: On The Road (Song) by Jack Kerouac)
1. Cigarette smoke under lamp light.
2. Glacial formations in East River.
3. Steamy tugboats on the Hudson River.
4. Factories by the New England riverside.
5. Autumn between eras, ages, acts.
6. Drunken, delirious joy.
7. Being lost in the woods.
8. The hazy dreams of Lowell’s greatest son.
9. The American dream.
10. America’s last literary renaissance.
11. Linguistic, poetical pluralism, examination, adoration.
12. Bourbon and unfiltered Camels.
13. That dark, free-wheeling ribbon of highway.
14. Woody Guthrie as dreamt by William Carlos Williams.
15. The dignified American voice.
16. Brownstones, train cars, bonfires.
17. Cabins, fire escapes, back rooms in ghostly bars.
18. Ghosts.
19. Neal Cassady blacked out in the dining room.
20. Girls in pleated skirts, brushed blond hair, fur coats.
21. North Beach, Skid Row, the Bowery, the pool halls of Denver.
22. Lou Reed humming nursery rhymes.
23. A patriot, self-tormentor, spark-plug of social commentary, hero.
24. Allen Ginsberg praying in the Vatican with rosary beads.
25. The moment after you leave home / the second before you fall asleep.
