On the Road Madness Quotes Page 2
Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #4 The following ten days were, as W. C. Fields said, "fraught with eminent peril" - and mad. I moved in with Roland Major in the really swank apartment that belonged to Tim Gray’s folks. We each had a bedroom, and there was a kitchenette with food in the icebox, and a huge living room where Major sat in his silk dressing gown composing his latest Hemingwayan short story - a choleric, red-faced, pudgy hater of everything, who could turn on the warmest and most charming smile in the world when real life confronted him sweetly in the night. (I.7.1) |
Sal often connects notions of madness with danger.
| Quote #5 On the wall was a nude drawing of Dean, enormous dangle and all, done by Camille. I was amazed. Everything was so crazy. (I.7.19) |
Sal sees madness in all aspects of Dean’s life, including his relationships with women.
| Quote #6 And Carlo began his monkey dance in the streets of life as I’d seen him do so many times everywhere in New York. (I.7.25) |
Carlo, too, possesses a madness that knows no geographical limitations.
