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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 you ask                  
  for an angle, well, Julie's                  
  hair is matted with dirt I am           But of                    
  told; oh fuck it, normal                course                     
  disinitegration of continued            not.      (Ginsberg asked 
  habit patterns (child raising                     for an "angle"?)
  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           Or maybe he was             
             relaying hearsay a few years       making it clear             
             later?  ("I am told").             he doesn't feel             
                                                up little girls             
             Or had Cassady passed              heads.                      
             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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