in 1963, Neal [Cassady] became the party-man on the LSD-fuelled Merry Pranksters bus, led by [Ken] Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. "They treated him like a trained bear. Neal said he took any drug, any pill, anyone handed him. He didn't care. He was doing his damnedest to get killed." She feels guilty about his self-destruction. "I didn't realise the two pillars of his support were the railroad job and being head of a family. He realised he would never become respectable, as he wanted, and he wanted to die."from The Guardian: Neal Cassady: Drug-taker. Bigamist. Family man
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