The quest for the absolute, amid spiritual wanderings of true friendship, of cows and incandescent love, revolts against the established order of denial against the dead souls (dry souls). No wonder this cult book has influenced a whole generation of beatniks, still mark those to come, those who do not meet the daily greyness we reserve the materialism. Like Nietzsche, Kerouac is masked advance, and to better understand the depths of his soul, it should read "Wake up, A Life of the Buddha." Those who enjoy reading Ginsberg, Thomass Mann, Hermann Hesse, love Kerouac, although their style is very different.