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ive already read every interesting book in our library
Personally, I find that difficult to believe. I used to read 5 or 6 books a week when I was in high school, and there is a ton that I never got around to picking up before graduation. Have you read the entire collection of stories that comprize the Duluoz legend? I haven't even made it through that task yet. But I would bet The Dharma Bums and Big Sur have escaped your perusal. Have you gotten in to Leaves of Grass yet? These are American classics. As I mentioned earlier, have you read Howl yet?
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,..."
Go back a little further. Have you read Plato? Milton? Flaubert? Tennessee Williams, for christ's sake?