mel’s Reviews > On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) 1st (first) Edition by Jack Kerouac > Status Update

"At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, are big as roman candles, and as lovely as the Prince of the Dharma who's lost his ancestral grove and journeys across the spaces between points in the handle of the Big Dipper, trying to find it again. So they slowly wheeled the night, and then long before actual sunrise, the great red light appeared..." (p. 211).

"But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn burn burn" (p. 5).