My favorite sentence from On the Road is the one where Sal is thinking to himself after learning everything in the particular stretch of Southern California, where his drug-fueled, cross country trip has currently placed him, gets done tomorrow. "For the next week that was all I heard -- manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven," is such a great line because it's true and because it's true for so many things. Maybe Jack Kerouac is commenting on Sal's hippy-Buddhist-amphetamine-abled ability to live in the moment. Or maybe he's channeling the mind of every single procrastinator on the planet, thinking things will most definitely get finished 24 hours from now. Or maybe he's commenting on how his own salvation, his own peaceful place is always just a day away. Or maybe it's something else. Regardless, it's a sweet line, one that encapsulates much of the novel's ethos and...
- 12/14/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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