Jack Kerouac described the image as a "long shot of night road arrowing forlorn into immensities."

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There is that desire much more explicitly in the writing of Jack Kerouac, the desire to replicate experience as you read, the feeling of having the experience that the writer wants you to have and that the writer himself has had.

这种渴望在杰克凯鲁雅克的写作中表现得更明确，在你读他书的时候，想要重新体验，作者想要你体验的那种感觉,作者自己也有那种感觉。

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Now, for those of you who don't know, On the Road does document pretty closely the actual road trips that Jack Kerouac took with Neal Cassady and a whole host of others, and I can do a little decoding for you.

现在，如果你们中有人不知道，《在路上》确实近乎于是对真实中,杰克凯鲁雅克带着尼尔卡萨迪和其他一群人上路旅行的记载，我来给你们做些破译。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选