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                                           March 16, 2004

Hints of Joan Vollmer, from Kerouac's "On the Road":


Section 1, Chapter 1, p.10:

   "All my other current friends
   were 'intellectuals' -- "                  Translated:

   "Chad the Nietzschean                      Hal Chase
   anthropologist,"

   "Carlo Marx and his nutty                  Allen Ginsberg
   surrealist low-voiced
   serious staring talk,"

   "Old Bull Lee and his critical             William Burroughs
   anti-everything drawl"

   "-- or else they were slinking
   criminals like Elmer Hassel,               Herbert Hunke
   with that hip sneer;"

   "Jane Lee the same, sprawled               ... and Joan Vollmer
   on the Oriental cover of her
   couch, sniffing at the _New
   Yorker_."


                               (He appears to have classified
                               Joan Vollmer as a criminal
                               rather than an intellectual,
                               but let's chalk that up to       Presumably he
                               "spontaneous" sloppiness.)       meant that her
                                                                sneer was much
                                                                like Huncke's.

Section 2, Chapter 6 p. 146:

  "His relation with his wife was one of the
  strangest: they talked till late at night;
  Bull liked to hold the floor, he went right
  on in his dreary monotonous voice, she tried
  to break in, she never could; at dawn he got
  tired and then Jane talked and he listened... "

None of this talk is
recorded or described.                     ROLLICKING_FUN_DISCUSSIONS


There's an incident at the racetrack where
Burroughs and Kerouac decide that Kerouac
had been recieving a message from his
deceased father:

  "We told Jane about it.  She sniffed.
  'It sounds silly to me.'" -- p. 154           Contrast that with her
                                                reported claim that
                                                Mayan priests were
And that, is pretty much it.                    telepathic.


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