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NEAL_AND_JOAN

                                              August 14, 2005               
                                                                            
From "Neal Cassady Collected Letters, 1944-1967"                            
                                                                            
Letter to Allen Ginsberg,                                                   
dated March 15, 1949                                                        
San Francisco:                                                              
                                                                            
  "Joan is brittle, blasé                                            
  brittleness is her forte.  With                                           
  sharpened laughs and dainty oblique              
  statements she fashions the topic at                                          
  hand.  You know these things, I need                                          
  not elaborate."                               But of course not, why          
                                                elaborate?  No one ever did.
                                                
  
  "But you ask for an angle, well, Julie's                                   
  hair is matted with dirt I am told; oh            (Ginsberg asked      
  fuck it, normal disinitegration of                for an "angle"?)         
  continued habit patterns (child raising                                
  here) has Joan laboring in a bastardized                           
  world wherein the supply of benzedrine                               
  completly conditions her reaction to                                  
  everyday life. ETC. I love her."                                  
                                             
              -- p. 116                   
                             

      Note:       
                                    
      Cassady had visited Joan & WB in               
      New Waverly Texas in '47.  Here he                             
      seems to be just relaying hearsay       Or maybe he was making it       
      a few years later?  ("I am told").      clear he doesn't feel up        
                                              little girl's heads.            

             Or had Cassady passed                                            
             through and seen her again                                      
             more recently?  Maybe check                                
             "The First Third", I guess.
                                                       
                 Or for that matter, "On the Road",
                 That begins in the late forties 
                 time frame... 








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