In the hall itself the din of the music -for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was… — Jack Kerouac
In the hall itself the din of the music -for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for -was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as loud as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.
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