[tallhappy]

Kerouac has a lot of friends and hangers on. He took drugs they brought.

He never stopped using drugs.

I no longer have any of the bios and can't look anything up. I also have other sources over the years. I am correct. You'll see.

[weegee]

The locals of Lowell Mass certainly saw him as a beligerant alcoholic. I attended at summer semester in Lowell and may have stumbled in one of his old haunts.

There was another good read that I can recommend "Crimes Of The Beats (aka the Unbearables)" that deconstructs the myths of the beatnik authors; satire is a powerful weapon.

I haven't had a chance to dig into The Holy Barbarians yet (I opened it but wasn't ready to go to far before getting caught up in some other book).