Word: gab
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Ginsberg and Kerouac were both Easterners who attended Columbia University and then hit the road in search of direct experience and spontaneity. They found it personified in Neal Cassady, a Denver reform-school graduate and car thief with a gift of gab and sexual electricity that connected with the boys as well as the girls. Cassady and Ginsberg became lovers while Kerouac embraced Cassady's bebop monologues as part of his own prose style. Dean Moriarty, the hero and mobile savage of On the Road, is Neal Cassady right down to his pedal foot. "He was," wrote Kerouac early...