And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show like fish, the great moon that once was rose now high like a blazing milk flails its white reflection vertical and deep in the dark surgey mass wall river's grinding bed push. As in a sad dream, under the streetlamp, by pocky unpaved holes in dirt, the father James Cassidy comes home with lunchpail and lantern, limping, redfaced, and turns in for supper and sleep. Now a door slams. The kids have rushed out for the last play, the mothers are planning and slamming in kitchens, you can hear it out in swish leaf orchards, on popcorn swings, in the million-foliaged sweet wafted night of sighs, songs, shushes. A thousand things up and down the street, deep, lovely, dangerous, aureating, breathing, throbbing like stars; a whistle, a faint yell; the flow of Lowell over rooftops beyond; the bark on the river, the wild goose of the night yakking, ducking in the sand and sparkle; the ululating lap and purl and lovely mystery on the shore, dark, always dark the river's cunning unseen lips, murmuring kisses, eating night, stealing sand, sneaky. 'Mag-gie!' the kids are calling under the railroad bridge where they've been swimming. The freight train still rumbles over a hundred cars long, the engine threw the flare on little white bathers, little Picasso horses of the night as dense and tragic in the gloom comes my soul looking for what was there that disappeared and left, lost, down a path--the gloom of love. Maggie, the girl I loved.
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The woods do that to you, th... JACK KEROUAC It all ends in tears anyway. JACK KEROUAC At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver... JACK KEROUAC At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave. JACK KEROUAC Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and loo... JACK KEROUAC It is possible for the human spirit to win after all. JACK KEROUAC As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clou... JACK KEROUAC I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til... JACK KEROUAC ...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact ... JACK KEROUAC Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your... JACK KEROUAC For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze... JACK KEROUAC Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana ... JACK KEROUAC His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because... JACK KEROUAC Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. JACK KEROUAC And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was th... JACK KEROUAC I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do. JACK KEROUAC I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f... JACK KEROUAC What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't k... JACK KEROUAC We agreed to love each other madly. JACK KEROUAC My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask... JACK KEROUAC So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ... JACK KEROUAC But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa... JACK KEROUAC Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't... JACK KEROUAC Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th... JACK KEROUAC And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol... JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w... JACK KEROUAC ...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w... JACK KEROUAC ...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ... JACK KEROUAC ...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ... JACK KEROUAC I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’... JACK KEROUAC The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ... JACK KEROUAC I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ... JACK KEROUAC He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st... JACK KEROUAC Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by ... JACK KEROUAC It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowl... JACK KEROUAC