i just discovered the meaning of On The Road

[shes_a_giant]

'I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.'

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[technicolordoll]

Yes!

It just makes me want to get up and leave.

[shes_a_giant]

yes. i think thats what i dont like about it. its too realistic. its frustrating. cuz i cant just get up and leave.

[technicolordoll]

Yeah it's the worst book for me to be reading right now. I want so badly to get out of here and I can't. Im so restless.

[fg]

that's a great quote.

i like this one, too:

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

[shes_a_giant]

thats a great one too.
thank you.

[kornleaf]

"... and I was on mescalin the entire time."

[shes_a_giant]

hahahaha

[bellezzarubata]

Kinda sad. : (

I could never get into Kerouac. He's a poo head.

[shes_a_giant]

yea. but i thought it was boring until i read that line. then the entire book seemed to make sense.

[pockettraci]

and that's why it took me over a week to get from cali to colorado and back this summer :) unfortunately, i had to come home and it was only a week :( glad you ended up liking it

[shes_a_giant]

i did. but i am sort of annoyed that i didnt like it until the end. haha :)