'Always an ephemeral "visitor" to the Coast never really involved with anyone's lives there because I'm always ready to fly back across country but not to any life of my own on the other end either, just a traveling stranger... an exemplar of loneliness... actually waiting for the only real trip, to Venus, to the mountain of Mein Mo- Tho when I look out of Cody's livingroom window just then I do see my star shining for me as it's done all these 38 years over crib, out ship windows, jail windows, over sleepingbags only now it's dummier and dimmer and getting blurreder damnit as tho even my own star be now fading away from concern for me as I from concern for it- In fact we're all strangers with strange eyes sitting in a midnight livingroom for nothing...
-Jack Kerouac (BIG SUR-a novel)
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Yes, the star still shines out the window...something about a rural environment that makes thoughts more real...thanks for sharing
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