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in a continually flowing way without the constraints of the traditional rules of writing. Kerouac stated that when writing using this method one must “never afterthink to improve or defray impressions” because “the best writing is always wrung-out”, “tossed from cradle”, from “the song of yourself.” Text written in this
original way effectively conveys the emotion and energy of the author as well as allowing the reader to empathise greatly with the story. “On the Road” is written entirely using the “spontaneous prose” technique. An example of this is the final paragraph in the novel. It contains only one long sentence seperated by many commas and conveys the natural spontaneous thoughts of the main character, Sal Paradise, as he thinks of his old friend, Dean Moriarty:
“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old-broken down river pier watching the long, long skies over new New Jersey ...

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connotes a more involved thought process whereas “blowing” implies a more direct, more intense, less thoughtful, more emotional style of play. An example of Jack Kerouacs attempt to write in a jazz-like style is when he is describing the performance of a band in an obscure backstreet Jazz club:


“The behatted tenorman was blowing at the peak of a wonderfully satisfactory free idea, a rising and falling riff that went from ‘EE-yah!’ to a crazier ‘EE-de-lee-yah!’ and blasted along to the rolling crash of the butt-scarred drums hammered by a big brutal Negro with a bullneck who didn’t give a damn about anything but ...

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