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I'm in love with another Jack! Jack Kerouac's "On the Road"

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Front-Ranger:
After reuniting with Dean, they are parted again! This seems to be part of the formula for success in buddy stories. Jack goes with a car full of other boys to the mountains. The car is driven by one of the boys' mother, an "enterprising blond" named Babe Rawlins. They take off for Central City, a very historic Gold Rush mountain town where Colorado's first opera house is located. There is a miner's shack that the boys can clean out and use to party in, and they get to work.

The aftermath reminded me of Brokeback Mountain's descent from the mountain:

"In the morning I woke up and turned over; a big cloud of dust rose from the mattress. I yanked at the window; it was nailed. Tim Gray was on the bed too. We coughed and sneezed. Our breakfast consisted of stale beer. Babe came back from her hotel and we got our things ready to leave. Everything seemed to be collapsing. As we were going out to the car Babe slipped and fell flat on her face. Poor girl was overwrought. Her brother and Tim and I helped her up. We got in the car; Major and Betty joined us. The sad ride back to Denver began."

Front-Ranger:
Why hasn't On the Road become a movie??? Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights many years ago and announced that development would be starting in 2005. He cast Billy Crudup in the role of Jack er, Sal Paradise. But no further news has appeared.

That's my main question regarding On the Road. What are your questions??

Front-Ranger:
Jack is parted from Dean for years. When they finally get back together, Part II of the story begins. Somehow, they are thrown back together, and Dean decides they must go to New York. Carlo (Allen Ginsberg) arrives and for half an hour, merely observes Dean and Jack, refusing to talk to them. Finally he says he has an announcement: "What is the meaning of this voyage to New York? What kind of sordid business are you on now? I mean, man, whither goest thou? Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"

These are the questions that are echoing in my brain this night.

Front-Ranger:
Inevitably, the dream appears, the dream that Jack had that haunts him. It is "the one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is hte remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death."

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Some On the Road art:

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