I do intend to read the book again, but probably the scroll version. My impression from the last partial read-through is that Kerouac, at least his narrator, wa

I do intend to read the book again, but probably the scroll version. My impression from the last partial read-through is that Kerouac, at least his narrator, wants to take everything de novo. Of course you're my greatest one-and-only-forever love, I'm sure of it. Yes, she was last month, but this time I'm sure. (Repeat ad lib.) I think you greatly overrate the trembling tendencies, or maybe the sincerity of the trembling among the consumer bourgeois middle class. I am about as bourgeois (well, petit-bourgeois, as a Marxist acquaintance once told me) middle class as you can get. I wear the flannel shirts, jeans, and work shoes, once the transgressive costume of the Beats, to Starbucks, and guess who surrounds me there? Middle class folk in flannel shirts, jeans, and work shoes. The revolution will not be televised? Sorry, it will be televised, but it will only look revolutionary.