It's October 11th today, Columbus Day. This is a month to be savored day by day, hour by hour. To aid in the savoring, here is today's Kerouac quotation, from "The Vanishing American Hobo" in Lonesome Traveler, p. 173 of the 1970 Black Cat edition. (Purchased my copy in a shop on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on 12 April 1973, while on the road, enroute to Boston from Los Angeles. From that point of the trip on I had two Kerouac books in my rucksack, the just mentioned and, you guessed it, On the Road.)
There is nothing nobler than to put up with a few incoveniences like snakes and dust for the sake of absolute freedom.
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