#neal cassady

[the-replacemints]

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NEAL CASSADY TO ALLEN GINSBERG

Denver, Colorado April 10, 1947

. . . I don't care what you think, that's what I want. If you are able to understand and can see your way clear to shepharding me around the big city for 9 months, then, perhaps, go to Europe with me next summer thats swell, great and wonderful, exactly what I want, if not — well, why not? Really, damn it, why not? You sense I'm not worthy of you? you think I wouldn't fit in? you presume I'd treat you as badly or worse? You feel I'm not bright enough? you know I'd be imposing, or demanding, or trying to suck you dry of all you have intellectually? Or is it just that you are, almost unconciously, aware of enough lack of interest in me, or indifferance to my plight and need of you, to believe that all the trouble of helping and living with me, would not be quite compensated for by being with me? I can't promise a darn thing, I know I'm bisexual, but prefer women, there's a slimmer line than you think between my attitude toward love and yours, don't be so concerned, it'll fall into line. Beyond that – who knows? Let's try it & see, huh? . . .           Relax, man, think about what I say and try to see yourself moving toward me without any compulsive demands, due to lack of assurance that I love you, or because of lack of belief that I understand you etc. forget all that and in that forgetfulness see if there isn't more peace of mind and even more physical satisfaction than in your present subjective longing (whether for me, or Claude, or anybody) I know one cannot alter by this method, but come to me with all you've got, throw your demands in my face, (for I love them) and find a true closeness, not only because what emotionality I have is also distorted by lonliness, but also because I, logically or not, feel I want you more than anyone at this stage.           I'm really beat, off to bed, and a knowledge of relief, for I know you must understand and move with me in this, you better not fight against it or any other damn thing, so shut up, relax, find some patience and fit into my mellow plans.           Love & Kisses, my boy, opps!, excuse, I'm not Santa Claus am I? Well then, just – Love & Kisses,                     Neal

#neal cassady #allen ginsberg

[visioncody]

Visions of Cody (wr. 1951) (pub. 1972)

—Jack Kerouac

#jack kerouac #literature #neal cassady #quotation #visions of cody #american literature #beat generation #english #quotes #allen ginsberg #cody pomeray #dean moriarty #follow #life quotes #lit quotes #love quotes #books #books and reading #i read books #america whatever that is #college #life lessons

[degenderates]

allen ginsberg & neal cassady

#neal cassady was a nip flasher? omg just like dean winchester forreal #neal cassady #allen ginsberg #beat generation #beatposting

[colonellickburger]

Larry Keenan. Neal Cassady shaving at Allen Ginsberg's apartment, San Francisco 1965

#Larry Keenan #Neal Cassady

[carloskaplan]

On the road (Neal Cassady & Jack Kerouac)

#neal cassady #jack kerouac #literatura norteamericana

[keanuquotes]

#keanu reeves #pull my daisy #tibet house #Youtube #allan ginsburg #jack kerouac #neal cassady

[rollingthundereview]

choice bits from jack kerouac: king of the beats by barry miles

#ok thats it for now #sparing you the graphic oedipus complex stuff. unless you want to see it #jack kerouac #neal cassady #beats #great book if you're crazy about terrible men like me 👍 #🖇️

[oldpersonnewspaper]

Neal Cassady: Do you support queer rights?

Jack Kerouac: I'm bi

Allen Ginsberg: he’s dodging the question

#beatniks #beatnik #beat generation #jack kerouac #neal cassady #allen ginsberg

[familiarquotation]

”Oh, well we could talk all night and have a good time and eat pizza and drink wine and by God we will when I get travelin money. Meanwhile, sweetie, be cool, be blessed, be relaxed, like roses in the rain here I see out my window right now.”

Jack Kerouac, in a letter to Carolyn Cassady, 1954

#Jack Kerouac #carolyn cassady #neal cassady #Letters #personal letters #Beat Generation #beat poets #beat authors #Allen Ginsberg #love letters #1950s #words #quotes #quote #book quotes #book #books #off the road #ON THE ROAD #listen they were all sleeping together and in love dont ask #jacks letter literally make me cry all the time like #like damn idk if people will ever love me that much

[iwishyouhear]

#forever love #friends #jack kerouac #ontheroadmovie #neal cassady #beat generation #deanedit #american vintage #vintage movies #movie scenes #real friends #best friends #party night #allen ginsberg #two men #new year #walter salles #america

[we-re-all-stories-in-the-end]

Jack Kerouac would have liked Tumblr

“I pointed my finger at them and said ‘If you keep this up you’ll go crazy but let me know what happens as you go along.”

Jack Kerouac to Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in On The Road (Original Scroll)

#jack kerouac #allen ginsberg #Neal cassady #on the road

[the-replacemints]

Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady

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#so i got a kerouac poetry book yesterday and there was a poem in it about neal of course #and his love with allen ginsberg was actually acknowledged in writing for the first time i can remember reading #at least that wasnt written by ginbserg or cassady... so im going thru it LMAO #allen ginsberg #neal cassady

[visioncody]

Visions of Cody (wr. 1951) (pub. 1972)

—Jack Kerouac

#jack kerouac #literature #neal cassady #quotation #visions of cody #american literature #beat generation #english #quotes #allen ginsberg #cody pomeray #dean moriarty #follow #life quotes #lit quotes #love quotes #i read books #books #books and reading

[degenderates]

i need him

#neal cassady #dean moriarty #josiah speaks #beatposting

[ignatiaimpsley]

I go absolutely feral for the concept of people in the 50's and 60's who where completely disconnected from the counterculture, meeting Neal Cassady, completely without context or warning. You hear all these stories from figures WITHIN the counterculture, about how they met Neal, and they had all heard of him in advance, that's THE Dean Moriarty. But then there are the other stories. The tire shop where he worked when he was on parole, where none of his coworkers had read On The Road, but saw this average sized, 30-something man, who would come to work, leave his car in neutral at the top of one hill, let it role back downhill and up to the top of the next one, where it would always stop, just short of rolling down the other side, on to THE RAILROAD TRACKS. After that fabulous feat of parking, he walks in, twirling a crowbar like a baton, throws it in the air, double flips it, catches it, and throws it HARD at the floor, all the while walking, so that he passes it, and as it bounces back up, it flips OVER his shoulder and BACK in to his hand. He then spends the rest of the day handling semi tires that weigh twice as much as he does, and he NEVER. STOPS. TALKING. "Boy, you know, the last time I was in Denver..." "Now, you understand (incomprehensible bullshit)..." "Now, it's all about The Lag, see......." "So I told him, I sez....". Unless of course, he falls asleep in mid stride, which just.... happened sometimes. He could bounce the tires SIX FEET on to the rack. Sure, he's a modern myth, but truly, in real life, this man was an honest to God cryptid.

#neal cassady #jack kerouac #on the road #beats #beatnik #colorado #cowboy neal #ken kesey #merry pranksters

[senso1954]

let's all appreciate this bonkers argument + subreddit combo

#jack kerouac #neal cassady #raph.txt #i made it greyscale bc the colours were too grating.