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Quote #4
who let themselves be f***ed in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy,
who blew and were blown by those human seraphim, he sailors, caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean love,
who balled in the morning in the evenings in rose gardens and the grass of public parks and cemeteries scattering their semen freely to whomever come who may, (lines 36-38)
Howl associates sexual freedom with religious enlightenment.
Quote #5
who sweetened the snatches of a million girls trembling in the sunset, and were red eyed in the morning but prepared to sweeten the snatch of the sun rise, flashing buttocks under barns and naked in the lake,
who went out whoring through Colorado in myriad stolen night-cars, N.C., secret hero of these poems, cocksman and Adonis of Denver-joy to the memory of his innumerable lays of girls in empty lots & diner backyards, moviehouses' rickety rows, on mountaintops in caves or with gaunt waitresses in familiar roadside lonely petticoat upliftings & especially secret gas-station solipsisms of johns, & hometown alleys too (lines 42-43)
Neal Cassady (N.C.) was the paragon of personal freedom for many Beat writers. He was said to have had an astonishing number of sexual encounters in his lifetime, which added to his mystique.
Quote #6
who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue amid blasts of leaden verse & the tanked-up clatter of the iron regiments of fashion & the nitroglycerine shrieks of the fairies of advertising & the mustard gas of sinister intelligent editors, or were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality (line 56)
The speaker compares being forced to take a Madison Avenue advertising job in order to pay the bills to warfare on the soul.