What about...the DOOMED?

Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

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Thumbing it. Hitching it. Walking and talking it. Chalking it. Marking it. Sighting it and hearing it. Seeing and feeling and breathing and smelling it in, sucking down me, rubbing it all in the pores of my skin, and the wind between my eyes knocking honey in my comb.
--Woody Guthrie

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I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
--Holden Caulfield

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Curiouser and curiouser...

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At first, you think you're almost there. Then you think you'll never get there. Then you realize there's no there there.

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“You know how crazy that sounds.”
“What’s the un-crazy story then?”
Shrug. “Maybe we just don’t want to hear about it.”
--Thomas Pynchon

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Abandoned gas station in Glenrio, Texas. One of my own photos, taken a couple of weeks ago.

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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
a tale of a fateful trip...

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Kilroy Was Here. The big bald head. The two gripping hands. The big elephantine nose hanging over the old 1940s board fence.

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Kerouac outside the Kettle of Fish bar in Greenwich Village

I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.
--Jack Kerouac

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"The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error."

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✒ #JohnDosPassos, American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright, #DOTD 28 Sept 1970. #Poetry #Literature #Theatre

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"Don't worry. You'll get there."

"Get where???"

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It's a pretty common mindset these days, when so little makes sense.

I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
--Holden Caulfield

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And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
--TS Eliot

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No Trespassing.
4/17 of a Haiku.
― Richard Brautigan

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The conscience of my elusive race gives not a fig for me, baby. But I endure, if you know what I mean.
― Richard Fariña

All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
― Jack Kerouac

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Not with a bang but a...chortle?

My painting ALENTEJO ROAD

As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.
― John Bunyan

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A railroad crossing in the Mojave Desert. The railway track leads off across the desert plain into the mountainous horizon; the ground slopes slightly down to the right; and the sky is washed out and slightly stormy.

Cedar Canyon Road, Mojave National Preserve, California.

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“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there."

"Where we going, man?"

"I don't know but we gotta go.”

― Jack Kerouac

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Outdoor text.

The farther he walked, the more distant the horizon became.

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?
--Yip Harburg

Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
--Herman Hesse

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If we walk far enough, we shall sometime come to someplace.
--Dorothy

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“Hey mister.”

“What?”

“I seen you coming along the road and I wanted to tell you.”

“What?”

“Somethin’ ain't right somewhere.”

Loomis stared at the boy's shaded face for a long minute.

“Kid, you said it.”

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