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Article: Peasant dreams: reading 'On the Road.'(Jack Kerouac)(Critical Essay)
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- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles
in driveways, home to our silent cottage?
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what America
did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and you got out on a
smoking bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black
waters of Lethe?