28 Cassady was one of the Pranksters’ star attractions, and people would come from far and wide to see him tossing a small sledgehammer up into the air and flawlessly catching it, over and over, sometimes for hours at a stretch.
29 KPIX is a San Francisco television station.
30 Titled simply Neal Cassady, and self-published in Vashon, Washington, in 1998.
31 William Plummer, The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady (New York: Paragon paperback edition, 1990), p. 44.
32 Carolyn Cassady, Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg (London: Black Spring Press, 2007), pp. 1–15.
33 Not his actual nickname.
Copyright © 2011 by Gerald Nicosia.
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Nicosia, Gerald.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-936-74009-3
1. Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969--Friends and associates. 2. Henderson, Lu Anne. 3. Cassady, Neal. 4. Cassady, Carolyn. 5. Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the road 6. Beat generation. 7. Heroin abuse. I. Santos, Anne Marie. II. Title.
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