{"id":8424,"date":"2013-10-17T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/17\/carolyn-cassady-1923-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-10-17T13:39:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T13:39:35","slug":"carolyn-cassady-1923-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/17\/carolyn-cassady-1923-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn Cassady (1923 – 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Kerouac<\/a>I thought of Carolyn in September and I thought I ought to check the obituaries.  She died September 20th at age 90, her longevity as if in counterpoise to the short tenures of her main men, wildman Neal Cassady, the Dean Moriarty of Kerouac's 1957 On the Road<\/em>, and the brooding Jack Kerouac himself. Carolyn played the stabilizer to the mania of the one and the melancholy of the other.  Both quit the sublunary before the '60s had run their course.  The tale of Jack's end has been told too many times, though I will tell it again on 21 October, the 44th anniversary of his exit from the "slaving meat wheel." Neal's demise is less frequently recounted.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\"Neal<\/a>Neal 
\ndied in February of 1968, also of substance abuse, having quaffed a nasty
\nconcotion of pulque<\/a> and Seconals, while walking  the railroad tracks near San Miguel de
\nAllende, Mexico.  Legend has it that Cassady had been counting the ties and that
\nhis last word was "64, 928." (Cf. William Plummer, The Holy Goof: A
\nBiography of Neal Cassady<\/em>, Paragon, 1981, pp. 157-158.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Carolyn kept the beat while the wildmen soloed, seeking ecstasy where it cannot be found.<\/span><\/p>\n

May all who sincerely seek beatitude find it.  Kerouac: "I want to be sincere."  May Jack with his visions of Gerard, of Cody, finally enjoy the ultimate beat vision, the visio beata<\/em>.
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Linkage:<\/span><\/p>\n

NYT obit.  <\/span><\/a>Plenty more at Beat Museum<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n


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I thought of Carolyn in September and I thought I ought to check the obituaries.  She died September 20th at age 90, her longevity as if in counterpoise to the short tenures of her main men, wildman Neal Cassady, the Dean Moriarty of Kerouac's 1957 On the Road, and the brooding Jack Kerouac himself. Carolyn … Continue reading “Carolyn Cassady (1923 – 2013)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,40,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-literary-matters","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}