What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? --- it's the too huge world vaulting us in, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.


Jack Kerouac in On The Road (1957)
(Excerpt from On The Road - The Original Scroll, published by Penguin Books in 2008, p. 255)