The books we read as teens—the ones that get inside us and rearrange things—are sacred, even when they’re plainly imperfect.
Yet pilgrimages of any kind can feel melodramatic, in part because the act itself presumes that there is real meaning to be wrought from objects and vistas. Kerouac is buried in Lowell—when I visited his grave a couple years back, it was covered with wine bottles and pens—but he spent his last moments in St. Petersburg. Years earlier, he had called the city “a good place to come die.” I want to think that maybe, in those last moments, he was ready.
,” from 1962. “Why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and laugh.”
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