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"Casino - Elko Nevada"
[31: getting it: greed]
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"US 91, leaving Blackfoot, Idaho"
[32: Getting there (Kerouac) starts the highway series (sit)]
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"St. Petersburg, Florida"
[33: Getting there: arrived (passed by)]
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"Covered car - Long Beach, California"
[34: Getting there: (disposition of the car)]
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"Car accident - US 66, between Winslow and Flagstaff,
Arizona"
[35: Getting there: (disposition of the driver) (sit to lie)]
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"US 285, New Mexico"
[36: Stars and stripes landscape (disposition of the highway)]
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"Bar - Detroit"
[37: Stars and stripes landscape (not on the job)
(bottles 1, seats 1, stripes 2, fish 1)]
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"Barber shop through screen window - McClellenville,
South Carolina"
[38: Reflection: Not on the job (gone fishing) bottles 2, etc ]
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"Backyard - Venice West, California"
[39: Not on the job 3, bottles 3, stripes 4, seats 3]
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"Newburgh, New York"
[40: Not on the job 4: reflections 3 (4? 5?), seats 4]
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"Luncheonette - Butte, Montana"
[41: (Not) on the job 5: the election game (seats 5)]
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"Santa Fe, NEw Mexico"
[42: Out, on, out, on, spend to save]
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"Bar - New York City"
[43: On out, the expressionist plea: get me out of here (Sweetman)]
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"Elevator - Miami Beach"
[44: Out on ... "What's her number?" (Kerouac)]
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"Restaurant - US 1 leaving Columbia, South Carolina"
[45: On, out]
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"Drive-in movie - Detroit"
[46: Out; what's on?]
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"Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, Louisiana"
[47: The salvation interlude 1: John at the Jordan (Baptism)]
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"St. Francis, gas station, and City Hall - Los Angelos"
[48: Salvation 2: Francis at the plaza (Faith), the call to
assembly]
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"Crosses at scene of highway accident - US 91, Idaho"
[49: Salvation 3: Christ at Calvary (Redemption) (first assembly)]
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"Assembly line - Detroit"
[50: Assembly 2: attending machines (a line)]
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"Convention hall - Chicago"
[51: Assembly 3: attending the Machine (a line)]
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"Men's room, railway station - Memphis, Tennessee"
[52: Assembly 4: attendant and inattention]
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"Cocktail party - New York City"
[53: Assembly 5: attending cocktails (more inattention)]
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"Salt Lake City, Utah"
[54: Assembly 6: attending art education (after Walker Evans)]
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"Beufort, South Carolina"
[55: The product of art: beauty (in Beaufort)]
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And NB, the only smile in the book!
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"Funeral - St. Helena, South Carolina"
[56: Beauty 2: decoration (dead man series 1)]
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"Chinese cemetery - San Fransisco"
[57: Decoration 2: the name tag (dead 2)]
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If you imagine sound added, as Frank once said, "coming out of the photographs," then the quiet which pervades the last few will be broken soon. Imagine here a comment on Edward Steichen's brother in law, Carl Sandburg, who wrote the introduction to The Family of Man -- the fog rolling in on cat's feet.
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"Political rally - Chicago"
[58: Name tag 2: mindless (headlessness) in public places
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Insert loud sounds here, like raspberries -- this is the logical center of the book, and sums up Frank's attitude in 1956 towards the USA.