If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party,what are you running away from?
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don__ look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by,_ Kerouac wrote. __rails are like that: you__e floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you__e struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak_ just like life.
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Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don__ look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by,_ Kerouac wrote. __rails are like that: you__e floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you__e struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak_ just like life.
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