Three Kinds of Motion : Kerouac, Pollock, and the Making of American Highways.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Exit 244 Off I-80 to Park Road -- The View From East Sixty-First Street -- On Enticement -- Jack, Asked About Visions -- The Problem of Being Touched on Every Side -- On Entrapment -- Jack Encounters Two Russian Actors -- Interim -- Please Notify an Attendant -- Courthouse, Diner -- On Resolution -- Classroom, Dining Hall, Stadium -- What Is a Passenger -- Ozone Park, 1943 -- Return and Departure -- New York Public Library, Third Floor -- Departure and Return -- Rhetoric, Miniature -- Boredom Points -- From Delphos to South Bend, South Bend to Rochelle -- Slotted Mailbox, Telephone Pole -- Typed onto Army Stationary, 1943 -- Tradition, Decorum, and That Mysterious Thing Called Taste -- Or -- On Contiguity and/or Four Millimeters of Travel -- What Is a Floor -- What Is Mimetic -- The Promise of Being Taught -- On Method -- You Must Instruct My Ignorance -- Jack or the Spirit of History on Horseback -- On Revision -- What Is Approaching -- Not to Scale -- Watermark -- The Art of Selling -- What Is Favor -- Please Sign In -- What Is Enrichment -- With the Hogs in the Tanyard -- Neither Moth nor Rust -- On Exactitude -- Then -- Bibliography -- Without Whom -- About the Author.

Book-length essay chronicles Jackson Pollock, Jack Kerouac, and the origin of America's highway system.

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