Vanessa Veselka Quotes
Siddhartha Wants Liberation, Dante Wants Beatrice, Frodo Wants To Get To Mount Doom - We All Want Something. Quest Is Elemental To The Human Experience. All Road Narratives Are To Some Extent Built On Quest. If You're A Woman, Though, This Fundamental Possibility Of Quest Is Denied. You Can't Go Anywhere If You Can't Step Out Onto A Road ...
... (T)here Is No Female Counterpart In Our Culture To Ishmael Or Huck Finn. There Is No Dean Moriarty, Sal, Or Even A Fuckhead. It Sounds Like A Doctoral Crisis, But It's Not. As A Fifteen-year-old Hitchhiker, My Survival Depended Upon Other People's Ability To Envision A Possible Future For Me. Without A Melvillean Or Kerouacian Framework, Or At Least Some Kind Of Narrative To Spell Out A Potential Beyond Death, None Of My Resourcefulness Or Curiosity Was Recognizable, And Therefore I Was Unrecognizable.
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