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                                                        July 29, 2007

Some remarks about Joan Vollmer
by Helen Hinkle as relayed             LOOKING_FOR_JOAN_VOLLMER
through Carolyn Cassady:

  " 'Joan and Bill had great rollicking fun
   discussions... they had brilliant minds
   and talked about all sorts of subjects,
   though never anything personal.  "

            Carolyn Cassady,                     Helen Hinkle is not one
            "Off the Road" (1990)                of the intellectuals of
            Chapter 20, p 112                    the circle, of course...

                                                 She's the straight girl who
                                                 refuses to ride any further
   As you might expect,                          with Neal at the wheel, and
   no details of these                           gets parked at the Burroughs
   discussions are mentioned.                    place in Texas for awhile,
                                                 gradually figuring out that
   However, I suppose it's good                  things are Not Normal there.
   to have this detail of "On
   the Road" repeated from a
   second source.

      ON_JANE
                                               I find myself speculating
                                               on this naive act... is it
                                               a little *too* perfect?
                                               Could it be that Helen is
                                               someone who likes to play
                                               the innocent, perhaps as a
                                               kind of defense mechanism?

                                               But then, there's no
                                               reason to assume so.

                                                                    
                                   Luanne Henderson apparently regarded      
                                   Helen as a straight-to-be-freaked...      
                                   right after meeting her, Luanne asked     
                                   if she could watch Helen have sex         
                                   with her husband.                         
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                            
                                                                       

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