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Best cover ever. I'm coincidentally reading 2 books by people who died at age 40 or before (39 Thomas, 40 Shiva Naipaul). I don't notice much, but even I noticed half way through this how profound an influence DT was on the Beats. Not just in his aura of Romanticism and Bohemianism, but in the actual prose. Some of the rhythms and cadences could be straight from On the Road, but it was written over a decade earlier.