"Colleges being nothing but grooming schoools for the middle-class 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 livinv room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing."
He is describing suburban life. For the first time we catch a glimpse of what most of the population is doing while these, "Dharma Bums" live life on their own accord. They lose touch with material longings as the rest of the population gains them. It is black and white between these free-living poets and the growing conformity of the suburbans all around them but worlds away.
"By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's dissaproval and I felt Glad and slept well."
He has returned to his normal state of aloofness towards lust. He finds that it disrupts his meditative constant happiness, and has broken his own rules, but is now settling down to forget. He was hesitant and nervous about the wild spontanaiety, but joined for his respect for Japhy, and curiousity for the Princess. He is now letting the thoughts of the night leave him.
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