Monday, 15 December 2014
The Mover
More Beat stuff... I'm reading Penguin's first collection of William Burroughs Letters (1945-1959) and found this astute description of Neal Cassady, in a 1949 letter Burroughs wrote to Allen Ginsberg: "He is The Mover, compulsive, dedicated, ready to sacrifice family, friends, even his very car itself to the necessity of moving from one place to another. Wife and child may starve, friends exist only to exploit for gas money... Neal must move"
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I know people like that - it's hard to be in their world. Posts like this may break me down to read some Beat literature - my eldest brother notwithstanding.
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