“With the coming of the suit and this adult gesture, Cody’s life in Denver entered a second phase, and this one had for its background, its prime focal goal, the place to which he was forever rushing, . . . nothing less and nothing more than the redbrick wall behind the red neons: it was everywhere in Denver where he went and everywhere in America all his life . . .”

—Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody, 1972.