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this is from a 1974 article about On the Road--
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"is a love story,
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not a travelogue and certainly not a call to revolution."
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So, I put these up here to sort of sit in the background of
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what I'm going to talk to you about today
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about the ultimate payoff for Kerouac's effort and the Beats' effort,
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more generally, to imagine a language that is the adequate analog to experience,
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a language that is itself a kind of experience,
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and further, that is an ecstatic, mystical kind of experience.
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Last time, in addition to introducing that idea of language to you,
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I conducted a reading of the first part of the novel
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where I suggested that Kerouac tells a story that is not so much about