dig this

I've been voraciously reading Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" since Saturday morning. I opened it in Kean and stayed there for four hours reading, crossing the line into social peculiarity. It didn't help me when I read about the Minnesota brothers and Slim's unfortunate release of fluids and started laughing out loud.

If you've read it, you know what I mean. If not, go to the library.

This seems like the analogy we find ourselves in as we embark on "adult life" following certain ideas and dreams that either meet success or dead-ends. Yes, there is some "who we are", but more than that there's "where we're going".

I realize I sound like an obscure book reviewer. Sorry about that.

Either way it's just a great story, but this excerpt gave me chills....

"When daybreak came we were zooming through New Jersey with the great cloud of Metropolitan New York rising before us in the snowy distance. Dean had a sweater wrapped around his ears to keep warm. He said we were a band of Arabs coming to blow up New York." (p. 117)

Yeah creepy.