At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the … - Jack Kerouac

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Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

Jack Kerouac

At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

Colored, Enough, Light, Negro, Night, White

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