“Not aimless. Not in the least. It's just that my aims are different from most. There are plenty of aimless people on the road, all right. People who hitchhike from kicks to kicks, restlessly, searching for something: looking for America, as Jack Kerouac put it, or looking for themselves, or looking for some relation between America and themselves. But I'm not looking for anything. I've found something."
"What is it that you've found?"
"Hitchhiking.“
TOM ROBBINS
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This unique cult classic explores personal discovery, adventures of travel, the meaning of pleasure, and the search for the sense of self. As we get to know Sissy (born with unusually large thumbs), we laugh, we cry, and we blush. Let’s explore some major themes in this guilty pleasure of a book!
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