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On pages 161 and 162 in On the Road, Dean, Sal, and company are driving through Clint, Texas. Dean tunes the radio to the Clint station, where “every fifteen minutes they played a record; the rest of the time it was commercials about a high-school correspondence course” (p. 161). Dean tells the car that they beam the station all over the West, and that everyone would write to the correspondence course. It gives people who pass the test the equivalent of a high school diploma. “All