I'm not sure if anyone else posted about this passage, or if I'm just crazy for liking it so much, but the passage on page 113 in which Dean is just letting his thoughts flow really struck me. Dean's monologue on page 113 is extremely free flowing. When I read the monologue, it seemed to me like I was peering into Dean's mind, looking at his stream of thought. The monologue is so spontaneous that I could easily imagine Dean saying it, either on the road, or in a steamy jazz club, or just anywhere, simply because it was so "Beat-ish." To me this passage is a very good example of the "first thought, best thought" poetry of the Beat movement, and I feel it reflects a great deal on the style of On the Road overall. It seems as if the passage, and the entire book, was never revised and that it was written just the way we all see it now. The whole idea of "first thought best thought" seems to me to be crucial to the style and even plot of the book, and this passage represents a key example of this for me. The actions of the characters in the book seem to have no motive or reason; everything that happens in the book flows like a child's imagination from one thing to the next without very much thought or reason. The Beat idea of "first thought best thought" is very prevelant in On the Road.