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somewhere an old man with white hair was probably walking towards us with
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the word and would arrive any minute and make us silent.
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Their yell at the top of the world seems to Sal something that calls
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for a replacement; it calls for some other prophet to
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come walking ragged towards them and make them fall silent with his word.
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But, in the meantime, what you have is the continual
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reproduction of that yell, that laugh, that "wow," that "yes,"
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that "that's all right," all those things that they say just to
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register their existence and their relation with one another.
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I want to note something else, though, about the first time that
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Dean and Sal meet and the contextualizing of that meeting.
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When they first meet in that passage that I read to you,