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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
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the escape from an American consumer culture of the postwar period
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as it is a story about the absolute immersion in a culture of consumption.
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So, what Sal Paradise consumes on the road extends from pie,
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as I demonstrated to you by the multiple references,
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the simple food that the body needs and wants; to girls,
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all the women that he tries to sleep with and that Dean tries to sleep with
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over the course of the novel;
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to money and the consumer goods that come with it in order to