A couple of items of interest: a new public television special, Neal Cassady: The Denver Years and a reading of Athair (Father) by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Enjoy.
my father saw
this same damn mountain...
winter seclusion
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue
best,
Don
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Afraid I have very little familiarity with Neal Cassady.
He was Japhy Ryder's friend ...
but, in a fictive-sort-of way,
as Dean Moriarty in the other novel...
that whole group now worshiped as gods
&
have become Big Business .
Oh yes, Kerouac's pard!
On the Road's the book, Charles - big biz, indeed.
on the original which is the scroll which is stored
in the basement of the Lilly Library
JK used the real name.... Neal Cassidy
Jim Canary is care-taker of the scroll
which is owned by that guy who owns the Indianapolis basket-ball team....
Jim is an expert in Tibetan paper and Tibetan paper-making...
google him.... neat guy
Don,
During my blighted period as a New York lower east side tribal hippie, hanging out with a weird little flock called The Group Image -- this would be the summer of '67 -- Neal showed up in town.
He was a bit frazzled around the edges at that stage, hard living had taken a toll on the engine. Ted Berrigan and I walked him around the city. The congregation ended up at WBAI, where freeform communal music was made in the studio. Neal and Ted made quite a pair, two nonstop talkers. To get a word in edgewise, in such company, impossible.
Frantic!
The gaping wordless hippies meanwhile left to finger the god's eyes and beads...
Those were the days (and nights).
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