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Beatrice Kozera

She was the inspiration for the character "Terry" (or "Terry, the Mexican girl") in Jack Kerouac's 1956 novel, On the Road.

Boys and Girls in America

The album title is a line taken from the opening lines of the song "Stuck Between Stations" ("There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right/Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together"), which in turn refers to a quote from American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road and its narrator, Sal Paradise.

Clint, Texas

Clint was mentioned in the 1957 autobiographical novel On the Road by American novelist Jack Kerouac as the mailing address of XELO, a radio station based in Ciudad Juárez.

Doctor Sax

Doctor Sax appeared in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier by Alan Moore in a story written by Sal Paradise (from Kerouac's On the Road).

History of scrolls

One of the few modern texts the original of which was written on what is effectively a scroll is the manuscript of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, typed onto what he called "the scroll", made of taped-together sheets of paper.

Kirsten O'Brien

She has co-hosted SMart and its spin-offs SMart On the Road and SMarteenies (for the pre-school CBeebies channel).

Min and Bill

Jack Kerouac, in On the Road, has his protagonist-narrator Sal Paradise compare Dean Moriarity and his second wife Camille to Min and Bill.

Noriaki Tsuchimoto

One other film Tsuchimoto directed during this period was On the Road: A Document (1963), a film commissioned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police to promote traffic safety just before the Tokyo Olympics.

Sal Paradise

Salvatore “Sal” Paradise is the narrator and the protagonist in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road.

Steamboats of the Mississippi

Jack Kerouac noted in On the Road seeing many derelict steamers on the River at this time.

The Town and the City

It would be another six years before he was again published professionally, when Viking published On the Road at the urging of Malcolm Cowley.

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