... perseveres as an embodiment of musical homage. Now I have one radio-phonograph; I plan to have five. There is a certain acoustical deadness in my hole, and when I have music I want to feel its vibration, not only with my ear but with my whole body. I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue ... reed, or other nib, if one utilizes and expands within it. Kerouac accounts this working within a framework in the writing of his blues choruses, which are constricted by his "breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like...

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