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well what's your bid?

Post by WIREMAN » December 2nd, 2014, 1:50 pm

right off the bat u need $300,000 to enter the bidding for neal cassady's infamous joan anderson letter, gone missing for 60 years and jack's inspiration for his breakthrough novel on the road.......
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Post by whoaisme » December 2nd, 2014, 4:13 pm

*barf*

feel like it should have a home in the beat museum but i doubt they have that kind of dough

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wonder what neal and jack would think of that!
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Post by WIREMAN » December 2nd, 2014, 4:58 pm

i look for a guy like jimmy irsay who bought on the road scroll to get it....who knows maybe someone who gets it will publish the document...its really cool that it survived in a box all that time....it is literally the Beat holy grail, i bet it fetches more than a million bucks 8)
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Post by WIREMAN » December 2nd, 2014, 5:08 pm

oh by the way, i do feel this letter is jacks, he lent it to ginsberg who allegedly loaned it to someone else, then supposedly it ended up in the bay off sausalito, that always bugged jack...must be a possession 9/10ths of law thing....but its jacks for sure...
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Post by Doreen Peri » December 2nd, 2014, 8:30 pm

If I had $300K, I'd buy the balance of the mortgage on my house, put both myself and my daughter into school so we could both earn our degrees, invest in a business I can operate for a profit, and buy myself some health insurance.

Why do they call it the "Joan Anderson letter," anyway? Should be called "the Neal Cassady letter".

I'd love to read it but I feel extremely sorry that any person who has $300K (or who knows how much the total will be once the bidding is done?), thinks it's a smart way to spend their money, to purchase such a document.

People who have that much money to throw around should be doing important things with it like investing in the lives of those who need it, for instance, poverty stricken people who need housing, clothing, and food (just to name a few things).

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Post by whoaisme » December 3rd, 2014, 3:17 pm

Joan Anderson is the woman Neal was writing the letter about :?: The letter is about a night they spent together. Must have been in either Denver or SF :?:
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Post by WIREMAN » December 4th, 2014, 8:07 pm

here's what jack had to say about the letter.....beats me how somebody can auction it off when it belongs to his estate.....
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Post by WIREMAN » December 5th, 2014, 10:43 pm

well now i see the lawyers have made a fray of this one....kerouac's and cassady's camps are filing suit....somehow i knew this would happen.....
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Post by the mingo » December 6th, 2014, 7:14 am

Someone actually counted the words in this letter? I mean sat down and counted the words used?

That's creepy.

I mean C-r-e-e-p-y.
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Post by WIREMAN » December 6th, 2014, 10:45 am

it was probably jack :lol: ....novelists get off on that kinda shit....
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Post by Artguy » December 6th, 2014, 1:34 pm

How many railway ties to San Miguel De Allende...?

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Post by WIREMAN » December 6th, 2014, 2:31 pm

...neal found out the hard way.....
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Post by Doreen Peri » December 6th, 2014, 7:11 pm

Plug in the text to practically any application, and the application counts the words. Microsoft Word gives you a word count, for instance. Silly, but necessary sometimes for word limitations on school paper submissions or submissions for publications.

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Post by WIREMAN » December 9th, 2014, 11:53 pm

latest developement...
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Post by whoaisme » January 15th, 2015, 6:24 pm

oh yea there's been coverage in the chronicle maybe a bit too much.

really sad and ugly.
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