“It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for?”

— Jack Kerouac, book On the Road

sleep."
Part Two, Ch. 8
On the Road (1957)

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