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1998-02-27 - 13:03:17 Finding KerouacJack Kerouac did not go to heaven. He's here -- He's out there -- He's still On The Road. Jack's spirit lives between the painted white lines and cracked asphalt, in the bars of Larimer Street and the coffee shops of Times Square, on Mexico City rooftops and lonely highways of Nebraska, California, Pennsylvania. He's in New Jersey and San Francisco, and he probably check in on Lowell too. His presense is felt by anyone who takes to the road in lonely gray Buffalo dawn to leave one place, one experience, one adventure behind for another. It's not done on the small roads anymore -- the tiny Route 6s of America -- but on the interstates today. And it only takes a curious soul with an ounce of Kerouacian beatness to take an exit in search of that perfect apple pie. Out here among tree-flashing shadows of Massachusetts afternoon, somewhere between Lowell and Frisco, Kerouac continues On The Road, still searching for America.
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