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There's always the sense that Dean evades him, and I think part of that
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sense of an evading object of desire is,
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again, the pursuit of sex in this novel;
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it's part of the pursuit of sex.
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You might think, given all this, and given the
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ultimate plot of On the Road, that being on the road is about
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pursuing that kind of desire, and that it is necessitated by
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leaving home: you have to leave home in order to pursue that desire.
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But I would suggest to you that home is absolutely crucial to the
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production of this desire.
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And I want to point you to page 26.
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This is Sal's story about Big Slim Hazard, a hobo that he once knew.