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So, it's motivated by a huge blindness
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about the racial history of the United States in any of its detail.
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That sense of the oneness, I think, points to why and how he
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makes that illusion, the oneness.
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He felt that it was all one.
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The oneness is elevated from this sense of appropriation,
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to a mystical level.
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So that oneness looks something like the Buddhism that Kerouac
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studied for a time; it looks like something more than
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the effort for Sal just to be something exotic.
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It looks like, by entering into that oneness,
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by adopting all these different identities,