"After all a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him." (Kerouac, 122)
-The above quote is a little contradictory to the way that Smith has thought in the past about being homeless. At the start of the book when Ray is traveling to Santa Barbara on the train he seems to think that being homeless is not only a good thing but that he chooses to be. This begs the question, why is he upset about being homeless later in the book. Could it be because he's no longer with Japhy, and has been changed by him?
"I felt I was a blank being called upon to enjoy the ecstacy of the endless truebody." (Kerouac, 142)
-This quote is a description of when Ray is spending all of his time meditating, "thinking nothing", and trying to be free. He likes the feeling of being nothing because then he doesn't have to aspire to being any one type of person. This nothingingness helps him start to reach what he describes as ecstacy. To Smith the "endless truebody" is a person so pure, and undisturbed that they are forever true and pure and spirtually at rest.
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