Hardcover Jacket For ‘On The Road’ Used To Disguise Robert Ludlum Novel

Robert Dixon, 35, successfully avoided the disdain of his fellow commuters this morning as he appeared to read a copy of On The Road, the seminal Jack Kerouac novel, but was in fact enjoying the somewhat less-respected words of espionage thriller The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum. In a cunning move thought by Dixon to be worthy of the very spy novel he was reading, he switched the hardcover jacket with that of the famous Beat novel in order to appear more worldly and cultured to anyone glancing in his direction on the train.

The effects of his deception on the nearby businesswoman completing a sudoku and the group of high school students are as yet undetermined, although last week Dixon was approached by a woman reading a collection of Allen Ginsberg poetry who asked whether it was his first time reading the Kerouac masterpiece, proceeding to tell him of the first time she was swept away by the novel. In an attempt to appear deep and contemplative, Dixon stared at her for a moment before looking out the window and sighing dramatically. Further conversation was not attempted by either party.