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"But you see, no need to talk anymore and further."
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Dean's language has gone from this sort of quasi-academic gibberish of
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the beginning of the novel, to this completely fragmented,
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broken version of the "yes"s and "ah"s and "wow"s of those early, ecstatic days.
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So, Sal's language, by the end, has absorbed some of this,
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and yet gone on to honor a kind of coherence that
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Dean cannot inhabit anymore, or maybe that Dean never inhabited.
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So, the last sentence of the book, which I want to read to you
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--I think I have time
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--just because this is the language that Sal comes out of it with,
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or that Kerouac comes out with as,
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the payoff for opening language,