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Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
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Kerouac
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Pressed
Tangerine
Soon
Grapes
Tangerines
Fields
Spanish
Melon
Mystery
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Mysteries
Melons
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Groves
Love
Sunset
Grove
Red
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