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But this is a type with which Sal longs to merge.
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And this is how-- on 179 and 180--this is
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how he images a way out of himself.
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So this is on 179.
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So, I'm moving from the question of "What does America look like;
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what's the mythic vocabulary that Sal is using?"
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to, "How does he find his identity as an American?"
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So, first he makes America mythic,rather than specific
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(if we compare him back to Nabokov),
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and then he enters into that mythology through acts of identification.
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And here is one of the most important.
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At dusk I walked.