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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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