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this sentence is a very fine example of the payoff.
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There is a kind of goofiness at the center of it, "God is Pooh Bear."
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What does that mean?
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God is just a toy?
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God is a children's story?
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But then there is that lyrical, elegiac, always sad sense of longing,
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and the excess of the end: "Dean Moriarty...
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Dean Moriarty's father... Dean Moriarty."
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You can't just say it once.
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You have to try to fill that void by saying it two times
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and by invoking his father a third time.
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So the excess and the longing are there,