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Jonesy, a painter called Lanny Meadows, a mad French Canadian drinker called
Pascal and a Negro called Johnson all live in different rooms with their
clutter of rucksacks and floor mattresses and books and gear, each one
taking turns one day a week to go out and do all the shopping and come back
and cook up a big communal dinner in the kitchen - All ten or twelve of
them sharing the rent, and with that rotation of dinner, they end up living
comfortable lives with wild parties and girls rushing in, people bringing
bottles, all at about a minimum of seven dollars a week say
- It's a wonderful place but at the same time a little maddening, in
fact a whole lot maddening because the painter Lanny Meadows loves music and
has installed his Hi Fi speaker in the kitchen altho he applies the records
in a back room so the daily cook may be concentrating on his Mulligan stew
and all of a sudden Stravinsky's dinosaurs start dining overhead And at
night there are bottlecrashing parties usually supervised by wild Pascal who
is a sweet kid but crazy when he drinks A regular nuthouse actually and just
exactly the image of what the journalists want to say about the Beat
Generation nevertheless a harmless and pleasant agreement for young
bachelors and a good idea in the long run - Because you can rush into any
room and find the expert, like say Ben's room and ask "Hey what did
Bodhidharma say to the Second Patriarch? " - "He said go fuck yourself,
make your mind like a wall, dont pant after outside activities and dont bug
me with your outside plans" - "So the guy goes out and stands on his head
in the snow? " "No that was Fubar" - Or you go runnin into Dave Wain's room
and there he is sitting crosslegged on his mattress on the floor reading
Jane Austen, you ask "What's the best way to make beef Stroganoff? "...
"Beef Stroganoff is very simple, "t'aint nothin but a good well cooked beef
and onion stew that you let cool afterwards then you throw in mushrooms and
lotsa sour cream, I'll come down and show way soon's I finish this chapter
in this marvelous novel, I wanta find out what happens next" - Or you go
into the Negro's room and ask if you can borrow his tape recorder because
right at the moment some funny things are being said in the kitchen by
Duluoz and McLear and Monsanto and some newspaperman - Because the kitchen
was also the main talking room where everybody sat in a cluster of dishes
and ashtrays and all kinds of visitors came... The year before a beautiful
16 year old Japanese girl had come there just to interview me, for instance,
but chaperoned by a Chinese painter The phone rang consistently - Even wild
Negro hepcats from around the corner came in with bottles (Edward Kool and
several others) - There was Zen, jazz, booze, pot and all the works but it
was somehow obviated (as a supposedly degenerate idea) by the sight of a
"beatnik" carefully painting the wall of his room and clean white with nice
little red borders around the door and windowframes - Or someone is
sweeping out the livingroom. Itinerant visitors like me or Ron Blake always
had an extra mattress to sleep on.



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