![]() ![]() At the same time, he persuaded Kerouac to teach him how to write fiction. Ginsberg immediately fell in love with him, and Cassady, who had a hustler’s instinct to be whatever the person he’s with wants him to be, began a sexual relationship with Ginsberg, balancing it with the numerous heterosexual relationships he enjoyed more. ![]() It was here that he met Kerouac and Ginsberg. A car thief with a unique ability to charm strangers,he spent time in reform schools and juvenile prisons and developed the suave instincts of a con artist, although he never seemed to want to con anybody out of more than a ten-dollar bill, a roll in the hay or a good conversation.Ī friend named Hal Chase left Denver to enroll at Columbia University, and Cassady traveled to New York to visit him in December 1946. ![]() Neal Cassady was born on Februand raised by an alcoholic father in the skid row hotels of Denver‘s Larimer Street. His free-flowing letter writing style inspired the young Kerouac to break his ties to the sentimental style he’d picked up from Thomas Wolfe and invent his notion of ‘spontaneous prose.’ Without Neal Cassady, the Beat Generation would never have happened. He appeared as a main character in many books, though, from ‘Go’ by John Clellon Holmes to ‘On The Road’ by Jack Kerouac to ‘The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’ by Tom Wolfe. The real genius behind the Beat movement in literature never published a book during his life. There was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to Nevereverland” “The bus came by and I got on, that’s when it all began ![]()
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