The First Third by Neal Cassady

Author:Neal Cassady [Cassady, Neal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0872860051
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2014-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

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When September came (again time to leave father soaking on Larimer and rejoin Mother for the 1934-35 school-year) I found a changed setup for everyone but Ralph who, with his cohorts, still dominated the Snowden atmosphere. Bill, oldest and nicest of my four half-brothers, was doing a year in the state pen at Cation City for non-payment of alimony. Jack, third oldest and by far the most loyal supporter of Mother, had switched in courting the Chambers sisters to marry big-bosomed Rita and they, together with a crippled idiot named Frank, despite honeymoon, were now bootlegging from a rear apartment in the three-storied, lawn and pink stucco-fronted Evelyn which, being smack alongside, was forever enveloped in heavy sweet odor from the Puritan Pie Co. that so effectively killed the incriminating whiskey smell it might be considered, knowing lack’s mind, a prime reasoning behind this move half-a-block up Champa from the Snowden, of course, but such was probably not the case at all. Oldest half-sister Mae, together with my "liter one, Betty, (there was a third sister, older, but not met until yet a dozen more years) had at last been released from <)ucen of Heaven orphanage and she at once married “Big Bill” Herzog a gruff-mannered 32-year-old florid-faced German fore-man at Blaney and Murphy meat packing plant, which job he I" I when Cudahy took over shortly after, but the kicker is that since Mae was hardly 13, though sufficiently large, the Denver Post ‘I thought their nuptual ceremony newsworthy enough for a full photo of already curvaceous Mae accompanying a feature story slanted toward shock at the dupe of another poor child-bride. So, as I rejoined them, Betty, Jimmy and the baby of the family, my only full-sister, Shirley, made up the group still fettering a mother whose sudden fortune it was, (so rare an instance of her luck being good that it must be noted), to have indirectly become recipient of favor from an old fart with whom her pal, Ann Sheehan, had recently set up housekeeping in his swanky duplex on 32nd and Downing, for this aged Daddy had property and generous Ann soon saw to it that mother lived rent-free in one of his places right across the alley.

While this house, a sturdy two story affair facing Marion St., was not long our home, since it was but 90 days at most before Ann fell out with her moneyman, it is well remembered for a lot happened there. Events in themselves no more interesting or important than are, even to me, any of those child-dull ones yet told and which, like they, are put down mainly to get on, (by simply recounting chronologically episodes that now plague memory more readily than others concerning a particular period. Like here it was that I entered that stage when a child overcomes naivite enough to realize an adult’s emotional reaction as sometimes freakish for its inconsistencies, so can, on his own reasoning canvas, paint those early pale

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