On the Road: The Original Scroll

by Jack Kerouac

She took one look at Neal and decided from the very beginning that he was a madman.

She was likely correct.

This was the new and complete Neal, grown to maturity.

HA!

When Pauline saw me with Neal and Louanne her face darkened…she sensed the madness they put in me. “I don’t like you when you’re with them.”

I don't either.

My mother said I was wasting my time hanging around with Neal and his gang.

I'm wasting my time hanging around with Neal and his friends by reading this book.

Out on the dawn street Neal said “Now you see, man, there’s a REAL woman for you. Never a harsh word, never a complaint, her old man can come in any hour of the night with anybody and have talks in the kitchen and drink the beer and leave any old time. This is a man, and that’s his castle.”

I am tempted to DNF here.