Below is the last paragraph of a particular Kerouac book. Can you name it without raiding your bookshelf?
I'll go light candles to the Madonna, I'll paint the Madonna, and eat ice cream, benny and bread --"Dope and saltpork," as Bhikku Booboo said--I'll go to the South of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles--I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that--I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life--This is my part of the movie, let's hear yours
Seems to me Jack was answering Mary Oliver's provocative question: "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
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