They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of… — Jack Kerouac
They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
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