Cassady, Kerouac, Kesey

[matthew cissell]

And his friend Jack was already down in FLorida well on his way to where he
would be less than a year after Neil took off walking. I suppose you know
Kesey's piece, "The Day After Superman Died"; Neil's death was a blow to
both Kesey and Kerouac. What I've often wondered is how large a blip that
was on the (sub)cultural radar back then. I suppose Pynchon would have
heard about it - wouldn't that revindicate his wariness of and aversion to
the Fame Machine?

If you want to hear the old Madcap ramble then go to Youtube and look for
audio recordings from the Further bus.

That "child of boundless seas" is still "Lost now on the country miles in
his Cadillac".
If you want to hear Bob Weir and the Boys sing about him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7dCqxIN1cc

-The Dead make you happy to be alive.

Fare thee well,
mc otis

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:06 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> On this day in 1968 Neal Cassady died, at the age of forty-one.
> Cassady was not only Jack Kerouac's wheelman on the cross-country
> trips that inspired On the Road but a direct influence on Kerouac's
> style. His rambling, benzedrine-and-booze letters to Kerouac aimed for
> "a continuous chain of undisciplined thought," and invited his friend
> to "fall into a spontaneous groove" with him by mail. Only after
> getting this advice (and his own pile of bennies and his 120 ft. roll
> of paper) did Kerouac move beyond the "phony architectures" (i.e.
> traditional prose) of his rough draft into "innocent go-ahead
> confession, the discipline of making the mind the slave of the
> tongue."
>
>
> http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=2/4/2016
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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