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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
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that sort of ebb and flow throughout the novel.
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This is not the individual artist sitting alone,
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but rather a dream of an American identity that is somehow built in a
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free-thinking community of people, or a free-acting community of people.
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So, you get that, and all of a sudden,
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somewhere in the middle of the chorus, he gets it.
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Everybody looks up and knows.