An article in San Francisco Chronicle about a letter from
Cassady to Kerouac that will go on auction and is likely to fetch a million
dollars. The thought to be lost letter has it seems been the subject of legal
wrangles over its ownership since it resurfaced. In the third to last paragraph
there’s this:
“It could have been a positive thing for everybody,”
McQuate said, “but Spinosa tried to take all the credit and all the money.”
Which instantly reminded me of Sylvester, the surfer dude
from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World:
“You
could have taken a fair share like the rest of us, but no. You just had to go
and grab up the whole scene baby.”
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