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On The Road Jack Kerouac

On this world, there is always something that you know one day you will do it, like some books you know that you will read it someday. And the book of On The Road is such kind of thing to me.

Several years ago, I just thumbed through some lines of On the Road, and then I knew that I would someday find it out to have this book read again and maybe again and again. It is just like that you look at somebody’s eye for two or three seconds, then you would know that you are going to be soul mate or not.

Well, if we do a psychological analysis about this situation, yes, we can of course work out something, but that is all non sense.

Correct, what non sense. When I read such kind of books, I would prefer to just look around to seek the deep meaning of it. I was like running as those insane young people from the 40-50s America when I was reading this book. And I finished reading it at one time, like rolling down from the mountain slope, with an empty mind but only excitement. That is all what I gain after I read On The Road.

There are a lot of people who would like to discuss the significance of this book, putting this group of individuals into American history at that time. However it is not my cup of tea. There are always wanders in this world in any times; the only thing many of them don’t have is a real and serious depiction of their life style. What impressed me so much is not what they represent, but the charm radiating from them. If there are two kind of people who are the real owners of the vast land, sunshine and air, I would rather say, they are the Kings and the Wanders. Nevertheless, the majority of us, what we have are a house of tens of square meters, a desk, some children, wife or husband and savings and a number on the bank account. We have to work hard to add more zeroes behind those figures and even we cannot leave it, because everything belongs to us, and they have been sweet yokes on our shoulders, and they also have a noble name, called responsibility.

Frankly speaking, I would not recommend this book to everybody. The reason is that I don’t think it is a book for everyone to read. To those readers who have been accustomed to the traditional storytelling, what do these tweets-like lines mean? They might have no idea since they think reading is a slow process of chewing and digesting and thinking while reading. Thus it is hard to this kind of readers who cannot find it in their hearts to give up this good reading habit.

As a matter of fact, Kerouac was the first person who brought speed into the literature in history. He typed this masterpiece just within one week. Kerouac had papers stuck together and left blank on the left side, then resized to a printer to make it like a paper roller thus he could continue type without pausing, in order to feed the paper.

When I finished reading with Kerouac On The Road insanely, as if I could see the parts of my body jumping along with the road behind rapidly. And it is difficult to describe the exciting and breathe taking feeling. You will want to read down and down and keep going reading ahead, without sententiousness or fault finding. This is the way to read and live our life on the road.

Then I want to tell you that I am tied, and don’t want to say any more, even don’t know how to close this post. So let us stop here, just like many other things in this world without no beginning or no ending, no meeting again at all. With one break, we get to the end of the road, and everything is over.

With that said, somebody will be immortal within our mind.