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Neal Cassady

About Me



"Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other."

"I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires."

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My Blog

Leaving L.A. by Train at Night, High...

Dark streets, hundreds of silent autos parked almost too close to the rail, mammoth buildings, many still lit, now looming in blacker outline, isolated houses, houses of dirt, of noise, cheery ones, t...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:31:00 GMT

Letter from Neal to Jack Kerouac

(March 7, 1947) Dear Jack:, I am sitting in a bar on Market St. I'm drunk, well, not quite, but I soon will be. I am here for 2 reasons; I must wait 5 hours for the bus to Denver & lastly but, mo...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:40:00 GMT

San Francisco Beat Tours Hosted By Neal's Son

San Francisco Beat WALKING TOUR & LIVE PERFORMANCE WITH JOHN ALLEN CASSADY - The son of Neal Cassady will lead Walking Tours of North Beach and all the Beat Generation haunts. Thursday, October...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:16:00 GMT

Excerpt from "The First Third"

"For a time I held a unique position: among the hundreds of isolated creatures who haunted the streets of lower downtown Denver there was not one so young as myself. Of these dreary men who had commit...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:36:00 GMT