And then through the door, the figure of a slender man with a long white beard and a stack of RFCs in his hands showed up.

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Sam Riley, as Sal Paradise, the Kerouac figure, is almost as darkly handsome as Kerouac was, and the slender Tom Sturridge, with his big glasses, is charmingly silly as a sex-and-poetry-addled version of the young Allen Ginsberg.

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