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So, Ginsberg is not the first to do this in the American tradition,
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for sure, but it's a very important part of what the Beats revive.
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And I want to get at that question of embarrassment,
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because it comes up very explicitly on page 36.
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Embarrassment is thematized in On the Road, and it's
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assigned what I think is a very interesting provenance.
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So, this is Chad King talking to Sal Paradise:
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A quavering twang comes out when he speaks.
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"The thing I always liked, Sal, about the Plains Indians,
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was the way they always got s'danged embarrassed after they boasted the
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number of scalps they got.
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In Ruxton's Life in the Far West there's an Indian who gets