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thundara · 4450 days ago · link · · parent · post: Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouc: The Great Sex Letter
Currently finishing reading On the Road, and this is something that really flew over my head in the book. On many an occasion, both Sal and Dean fall in love with a random stranger they meet, make plans to run away together, then lose contact with the person and sleep with the very next girl they see. Is it just a detachment complex? An unspoken rule of the time that holding yourself to one person is wrong? Should I be reading more beat history to appreciate why they acted this way? Or are they all just uncaring jerks with sociopath tendencies?