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Freitag, 8. Dezember 2017

Rare Beat Generation Paraphernalia, From the Legendary Collection of Julio Mario Santo Domingo

In 1958, Neal Cassady gave a couple of joints to undercover narcotic officers as payment for a ride to work and was arrested. He served two years in prison, much of it in San Quentin. When he was released in 1960, the Beat progenitor plunged into another strata of the counterculture: LSD evangelism. Cassady had met Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac in 1947 in New York and the latter two were captivated by this handsome, bisexual womanizer and car thief, who lived the sort of instinctive life the Beats admired. Cassady had an insatiable appetite for drugs, sex, and adventure. He slept with Ginsberg, rapped with Kerouac, and drove pot grown by Burroughs from Texas to New York. He was unreliable but he was also smart, inspiring Kerouac’s On the Road and Visions of Cody, as well as Ginsberg’s Howl, with its telling line about “NC, secret hero of these poems, cocksman and Adonis of Denver.” Cassady loved marijuana. When he worked on the railroads, he’d smuggle large amounts of weed across the Mexican border to give away in California, playing a key role in the introduction of cannabis into the burgeoning counterculture. In Visions of Cody, Kerouac meticulously describes Cassady’s stash kit—“a dish, glass, deep dish, small, with rolling papers, tweezers, roach pipe (hollow steel tube), roach pipe ramrod came with the tube, attached, an art tool  actually, bottles of seeds . . .” ... [mehr] http://lithub.com/rare-beat-generation-paraphernalia-from-the-legendary-collection-of-julio-mario-santo-domingo/

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