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This is like the old Stones lyric, "Lose your dreams and you lose your mind." Aura is another word for glimmer, a corruption of glamor, that sparkle of magic or madness that come from people with dreams.

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He was 29 when he wrote that. Before Interstates and when he tried it years later, he got 50 miles and turned around.

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Trip One and Trip Two should be compared and contrasted. Any referrals? I suspect that he kinetically impacted a different world.

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I don't think he ever wrote about it. I have a friend who hitchhiked in the early 70s. He died last year, 68.

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Always loved Jack Kerouac.

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