![]() ![]() Jack Kerouac’s Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty find freedom and meaning amid the loneliness of their never-ending road trips across America. Robert Frost’s lamenting traveller conjures the impossible choice of two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but way leads on to way and he can never find his path back.įor Frodo, the road goes ever on and on, all the way to the fires of Mordor and back again. Odysseus must traverse the fickle waterways of a raging ocean to find his path home, Melville’s crazed Captain Ahab to find the beast who broke him. Theseus must mark his wanderings through the labyrinth with string in order to slay the Minotaur and find his way back. ![]() ![]() Original illustration by Guy ShieldThe image of the road looms large in even our most atavistic tales. ![]()
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