"It was embarrassing. Every single one of us was blushing. This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do" (68)
"devising curses out of his innocent stock of words" (70)
The role of the superlative (80.86.101.127.170.200) life is experienced as always culminating. If every superlative is taken as authentic, the describe an exponential growth, a continual increase in momentum that can't lead to anything but pure accelerated chaos.
"I was guts and juice again and ready to go" (92).
"I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along" (103)
"God exists without qualms...the thing will go along itself and you won't go off the road and I can sleep. Furthermore we know America, we're at home; I can go anywhere in America and get what I want because it's the same in every corner, I know the people, I know what they do. We give and take and go in the incredibly complicated sweetness zigzagging every side" (121).
"I had forgotten something...It had to do somewhat with the Shrouded Traveler...Naturally, now that I look back on it, this is only death: death will overtake us before heaven...mere simple longing for pure death" (124).
"God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rain night" (128).
"performing our one and nobel function of the time, move" (134)
149 - trick commodities
"The city was one big construction job; the people transient, wild, ambitious, busy, gay... altogether very Californian" (165) Tucson.
"Everything fell apart in me" (183).
"the beatest suitcase in the USA...cared about everything in principle...he belonged to the world and there was nothing he could do about it...motherless feverish life across American and back numberless times, a undone bird" (189).
"the road is life" (212).
"All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad" (235).
"All my actions since then have been dictated automatically to my subconscious by this horrible osmotic experience (246). movie
"they're worstest" (256)
Mexico: "It couldn't be cooler, it couldn't be grander, it couldn't be anything" (277).
"For a mad moment I thought Dead was understanding everything he said by sheer wild insight and sudden revelatory genius inconceivably inspired by his glowing happiness" (284).
"It's a nation" (297) - in Mexico, on the limits of nationness, on the interconnection through roads.
"it's the end of the first half of the century...We all wait for you" (306)
Dean Moriarty and old Dean Moriarty, collapsed to produce American continuity with a break?
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