""The best teacher is experience.""
Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of βitβ -- the pure essence of experience.
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Dean Moriarty / Neal Cassady
Sal Paradise / Jack Kerouac
Marylou / LuAnne Henderson
Jane / Joan Vollmer
Carlo Marx / Allen Ginsberg
Ed Dunkle / Al Hinkle
Terry / Bea Franco
Galatea Dunkel / Helen Hinkle
Camille / Carolyn Cassady
Old Bull Lee / William S. Burroughs
Tall thin salesman
Walter