And that was the night Dean met Carlo Marx. A tremendous thing happened when Dean met Carlo Marx. Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the
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o
p of a hat. Two piercing eyes glanced into two

p-i-e-r-c-i-n-g

eyes - the holy con-man with the dark mind that is Carlo Marx. From that moment on I saw very little of Dean, and I was a little sorry too. Their energies met head-on,
I was a lout compare, I couldn't keep up with them.

The whole mad

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sil

of everything that was to come began then; it would mix up all my friends and all I had left of my family in a big dust cloud in the road over the American Night.


-Jack Kerouac