I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won’t bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
When I was younger I read “On the Road”, and most of Kerouac’s novels several times, 4 or 5 at least for on the road. Now the movie is at last coming out. I wonder if it’s any good.