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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This duplicate reviewed scan preserves the same 1964 Big Sur world of hot-springs labor, Ken Kesey's bus, class friction, and Cassady on the balcony.
The repeated page confirms that the collision of names and impressions is structural to the memory. Big Sur is not picturesque but crowded with labor, desire, embarrassment, Kesey's counterculture, and the real Cassady behind Kerouac's literary aura.
A dense Big Sur recollection where the speaker works a dishwashing job an hour from tending bar, drifts among 'sheek ladies,' marries the 'middle class' one, and walks through 'the Prankster's & Ken Kesie Bus.' Ken Kesey, 'Little Susan,' 'Jou Fue,' Cassady, and Mike Murphy crowd the hot-springs scene, charged with class friction and embarrassment ('She blushed in the bus so I left'). The handwritten 'NEW EYES' and lines like 'I guess it's touch to be a poet' break the surface.