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Ep 57 - The Best Beginnings in Great Literature

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The Beat Generation's Life on the Road

i see a similar maybe not sense of defiance but definitely a sense of world weariness in jack carorax on the road i love the opening of on the road which begins like this. When you say beat you think being beat down yeah beat down by life beat down and weary that really comes through in this opening to on the road. It's interesting because readers come to on the Road when they're quite young and when i first read it i was intoxicated by the book i read it cover to cover in one sitting  when I was youngYeah and suddenly you think that the world is a is a great big adventure waiting for you to happenbut when you come to it a little bit

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