Sal Paradise is the main character in the beatnik novel "On the Road" by famous American writer Jack Kerouac. Sal is a young man, who, being sort of a star-strucked by his new friend Dean Moriarty, decides to travel through America with him in search for, as said in the first chapter 'girls, visions, everything'. Wandering throught the streets of the USA and Mexico, Sal faces many different people, finds love, adventures, gets drunk on life, listens to jazz, hitchhikes, and, mostly admires everything. There is some kind of sadness to the character too, but it's more of a bitter-sweet type, as he's always searching for something more, because he is amazed by the crazy and excited people he meets, the new stars of America in the 50s, who for him are the only people that are worth going after. He's the narrator of the story, which is believed to be some sort of a biography of the writer. The same character, which is Kerouac himself, appears in others of his novels by different names- Ray, Jack, etc.
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Get the Paradise mug.Paradise is really cool. She likes cats, dogs and pickles. She is the coolest person ever and paradise typically has lots of friends. Paradise is really pretty and has a beautiful personality and anyone would be lucky to be her friend.
by Cool_man32 May 29, 2022
Get the Paradise mug.This word, pronounced pair-a-dice, is typically used by a money gambler who's winning their game (not always dice). This creates a rush of adrenalin creating an elated state of mind (Heavenly) where the possibilities of what they could do or where they could go are limitless or endless (Sky's the Limit). Some might say that this gambler is buying a stairway to heaven.
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Hym "Everybody lies. Which means that this is Hell. Literally. You'd think there would be less moral posturing 'I dOn'T dEsErVe To Be HeRe! I'm OnE oF tHe GoOd OnEs! LoOk At My HaT!' Hahahahahaaa!! They got the suffering right! Could be more horror and depravity but, hey, it leaves room for improvement. It's not paradise after all. Oh! That's also more evidence for it being Hell! It could be better but not for everyone and only some of the time. It's strange that there is religion. That's the another odd thing. If you had me in a conceptual cage, do you think appealing to my captors morality would get me out of the cage? No. Threats? No. It doesn't matter what happens. I could literally tell you I'm going cut a couple of puppies open an wear them as slipper and it wouldn't get me out of the cage even if they were just the cutest puppies you ever did see. Because it's Hell. The horror and depravity is going to happen either way.
Hym "Everybody lies. Which means that this is Hell. Literally. You'd think there would be less moral posturing 'I dOn'T dEsErVe To Be HeRe! I'm OnE oF tHe GoOd OnEs! LoOk At My HaT!' Hahahahahaaa!! They got the suffering right! Could be more horror and depravity but, hey, it leaves room for improvement. It's not paradise after all. Oh! That's also more evidence for it being Hell! It could be better but not for everyone and only some of the time. It's strange that there is religion. That's the another odd thing. If you had me in a conceptual cage, do you think appealing to my captors morality would get me out of the cage? No. Threats? No. It doesn't matter what happens. I could literally tell you I'm going cut a couple of puppies open an wear them as slipper and it wouldn't get me out of the cage even if they were just the cutest puppies you ever did see. Because it's Hell. The horror and depravity is going to happen either way.
And that's the point of the GAME! It's not to prove that I don't deserve to be here (which is what people tend to think I'm trying to do and the approach that everyone else seems to have taken). It's to prove that HERE is where I say it is. Is playing God fun? I don't get to do it because I'm not you (in aggregate) but deciding what is 'truth' would be convenient. Oh! I got another good one! Ok, why do you think people respond to honesty with murderous rage and antipathy? Hell. People hate that shit here. And that 'demon' shit is dumb. You're a dumb shit and that's not what I meant by 'part of the cage.' They're aren't extra bad people in Hell that are worse than everyone else. That's why you die. That's why your kids die. To remind you that even in Hell you're still equal to the people you despise. A lot of distractions too. 'DoN't YoU wAnT tO bE hApPy?' I want to be out of the the thing I am in and that will make me happy. Are you going to let me out of the thing I'm in? ....................Hello? HelloOoOo? No? Ok I guess I'll just sit here then... Hmm... What else? You could say 'It's just how you perceive it' but that sounds like some postmodernist subjective reality bulls... That's not an argument, btw, it doesn't need to for you to do what I want you to do... Sorry, I was watching something. Where was I?.... I lost my train of thought. Something about paradise or whatever... I'll come back to it. I'm running out of characters.
by Hym Iam June 1, 2022
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