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Article: A red-letter letter.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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- September 1, 2007
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the following is an excerpt from a letter he wrote to Allen Ginsberg on September 22, 1960.
Dear Allen,
Yes, just got back, big TWA Ambassador flight, tax deductible, with wine and champagne and filet mignon and Chinese Tapei ambassador's wife in front of me etc.--New York seems cowed and nasty after anarchistic crazy freewheeling Frisco--Saw everybody--Neal [Cassady] greater than ever, sweeter by far, looking good, healthy-Walks to work in Los Gatos now as a tire recapper--would be willing to ...