Japhy and I were kind of outlandish-looking on the campus in our old
clothes in fact Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus,
which is the
usual thiing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real
man appears on the scene -- colleges being nothing but grooming
schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its
perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of
well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room
with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at
the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the
wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the
ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin
of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.
-- Jack Kerouac. The Dharma Bums 1958.