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Article: Everybody knows, nobody cares, or: Neal Cassady's penis.
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- June 22, 2005
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My mother went to East High School in Denver, Colorado. So, for a while, did Neal Cassady--Cassady, one of the dedicatees, along with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, of Allen Ginsberg's Howl, in which he is called "N.C., secret hero of these poems." In On the Road, disguised as Dean Moriarty, he is Kerouac's "sideburned hero of the snowy west." And in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, he appears finally as himself, as chauffeur and court fool to Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. Could he also be a plausible model for Kesey's Randall Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? At the very least, he is the recurring motif, if not in fact the inciting ...
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