Neal Cassady
Neal Cassady
Neal Leon Cassadywas a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. He was prominently featured as himself in the original "scroll"version of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. He also served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 version of that book. In many of Kerouac's later books, Cassady is represented by the character Cody Pomeray...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 February 1926
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.
Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.
I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.
The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.
Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets.
I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go.
Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.
Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.
We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!