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So, you'd want to connect that analysis of how jazz is being described,
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here, with the role of jazz in the novel as a whole,
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especially in the novel's linguistic ambitions,
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its literary ambitions.
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You might want to notice the "empty space" that's highlighted here.
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It's another version of the vagueness of spirituality in
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a couple of our novels on the syllabus,
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but certainly in On the Road, the vagueness of that thing that
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they are looking for.
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And also, you could talk about the communal dynamics of meaning-making,
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here, and you could connect that with how
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it's important that Sal and Dean operate in this larger set of people