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The boys want to become hobos because there's a kind of hunger
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that's generated at home; it's satisfied at home,
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but it's also generated at home.
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And I want to suggest to you that part of the misogyny of the novel--
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which I'm sure is palpable to all of us as we read--
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part of that misogyny is connected to this consumptive ethos.
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So, when we talk about desire for something--"we've got to go
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someplace, find something-- the very vagueness of that desire is
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connected with the basic hungers of the body for sex,
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for food, for sleep even.
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We see Dean sort of begging for sleep after his conversation with
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Carlo Marx in the basement in Denver.