On+the+Road

His reverses teach him that none may hope to have discovered absolute good -- his success stimulates him to the never-ending pursuit of it. Thus, forever seeking -- forever falling, to rise again -- often disappointed, but not discouraged -- he tends unceasingly towards that unmeasured greatness so indistinctly visible at the end of the long track of humanity. Alexis de Tocqueville //Democracy in America// Workers **leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas** [|Vachon, John, 1914-1975,] photographer. 1943 June Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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Woody Guthrie's Hard Traveling

And here's a story you can hardly believe, but it's true, and it's funny and it's beautiful. There was a family of twelve and they were forced off the land. They had no car. They built a trailer out of junk and loaded it with their possessions. They pulled it to the side of 66 and waited. And pretty soon a sedan picked them up. Five of them rode in the sedan and seven on the trailer, and a dog on the trailer. They got to California in two jumps. The man who pulled them fed them. And that's true. But how can such courage be and such faith in their own species? Very few things would teach such faith. (Steinbeck - //Grapes of Wrath// - p. 165)

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