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Jack Kerouac
JACK
You know the first time I met June?
CODY
No.
JACK
It goes even further back…1943. I came out of the Navy nuthouse and I came, and I took a elevated ride to my new house where my mother and father lived, and wondered about it, you know, I mean that fucked elevated was…
CODY
Where was it?
JACK
…taking a big curve, Ozone Park where you used to stay with me see? You know where the elevated takes a curve?
CODY
Jeez, you've lived there since 43? the same place? on the second floor?
JACK
Yeah, yeah. Remember where it takes a big curve and you think you're gonna fall?
CODY
Yeah!
JACK
I said, "Jesus Christ! I'm gonna do this…"
CODY
Yeah.
JACK
Er, I got out there, it was early morning. I walked there - my mother and father were there, the piano!!! fucking goddamn ten-dollar piano they carried, they spent twenty-five dollars to ship it from Lowell!
CODY
Yeah, at least.
JACK
…was there, everything was there, all the things of my family, except my sister was in the WAC now, WACS?
CODY
Oh yeah, WAC. I'll be damned, I didn't know that, you know. Go ahead.
JACK
Yeah. So…so we went - and, ah, at that time, I had begun to grow warts on my cock -
CODY
Amazing! That's supposed to be great you know.
JACK
I used to sit in the toilet and look at the warts all over my cock.
CODY
Amazing!
JACK
I said, "Jesus Christ, my end had come, I'm doomed" (laughs)
CODY
No, I would feel real great -
JACK
Twenty-one years old! Think of it, how young!
CODY
Jesus, yeah. I'd feel great if that happened to me, you know -
JACK
I said, "I gotta go find Elly."
CODY
No kidding.
JACK
Where was she? Asbury Park. I hitch-hiked to Asbury Park…when I got there, I was exhausted -
CODY
How'd you meet Elly? After you tell me how you -
JACK
Man, I had met Elly in 1942! It all goes back to 1942!!
CODY
That's where it begins.
JACK
- when I came back from Greenland!
CODY
Je-sus Christ.
JACK
- with an 800 dollar payoff in my pocket -
CODY
Oh, no wonder.
JACK
gave me mother about, say, three hundred? - five hundred I said, "send it to me, send it to me," she kept sending it to me, I was at Columbia, I went back to Columbia University to play football for a couple of weeks, see, quit the team, because I heard Beethoven.
CODY
No shit.
JACK
One afternoon it started to snow, Beethoven came on, it was time for me to go to scrimmage…the snow was falling…ta ta ta taaa! (Beethoven theme) ta ta ta taa! I said to myself, "Scrimmage my ass…I'm gonna sit here in this room and dig Beethoven, I'm gonna write noble words, "you know - that's the way I quit football (laughing) nothing more logical or less logical.
CODY
When was you in Hartford? Remember when you told me about Hartford? What year was that?
JACK
Forty-one.
CODY
Forty-one, ha ha, I got you goin back. Tell me 'bout June.
JACK
June?
CODY
You met June, you went to Asbury Park, you're telling me how you met her…
JACK
To find Elly! And I found her, and she had a big sunburn, and she said, "You…you…you don't wanna come back to me," I said: "Yeah, yeah" - and we took a walk along the boardwalk and I went in the drugstore and bought a rubber, and she said, "What'd you go in there for?" I said, "Oh, I bought some aspirins," I said. - Actually I bought some sunburn lotion and I did also, Noxema…We went up to her…MY room, and I said, "Lemme put this lotion on you," see? over her red skin, see? We sat all afternoon on the beach and I had her necklaces on, on the beach, and some girls passed by, such beautiful cunts passed by, said "What is this, pagan? What is this boy here, a gypsy?" And here I was with these fucking and I thought I was…
CODY
Earrings you mean?
JACK
…and I thought I was dying because I had these…things on my cock, see? These…staples on my cock…
CODY
The staples, yeah.
JACK
Man! And so I said, "I'm an old man, I'm going to get fucked!" And I rubbed this lotion all over her all the way to her thighs, and, ah, then I had a hard-on, and I simply (claps hands) …fucked her, see? And she said, "I knew this would happen." Then everything started up again! And in the morning, see? At night after I fucked her I passed out, cause I had a sunburn, she went across the street to her grandmother's house, and in the morning she woke up, I went over there to pay my respects to grandmother, her sister Elly came down the stairs all her face puffed up, from the sun, she had a real serious burn!
CODY
Oh yeah.
JACK
You don't realize how I'm feeling real drunk.
CODY
Are you really? (laughs) Geez I'm not. You remind me of some..some..ah…
JACK
See? We're in the middle there, talking, now you tell me about what you did with Vicki, 'cause that's a worldshaking cunt.
CODY
Well you know I never dug her, like the first night I told you.
JACK
You dug her as a worldshaking cunt.
CODY
No, you and me both dug her as a big sloppy gal, you remember that talk, you remember, man, she's all very hep and very fine and everything, but talking about appeal, attraction, you know, she, you know, she…you don't keep getting…creamed over her.
JACK
Oh yea…Oh no…Yeah. (laughing)
CODY
Yeah. (laughing) I'd just like to know what old Bull Hubbard thinks whenever he hears the "William Tell Overture"? (laughing) You know? Just the mere fact of the word, sometime before he gets hungup.
JACK
I wonder who made that up? Hm?
CODY
Well, it's a…it's a, you know, a guy'll just say -- that's what it is, after all, William Tell-type, huh?
JACK
Is that what he really did I wonder?
CODY
Well he says later - he reneged on that and said he didn't - he said it might have…went...happened that way but she put it on her head but what happened is he was just loading the gun or cleaning it and it went off or something, remember?
JACK
Yeah later…that's what he said.
CODY
But he never wrote, ah, to any one, has he, to really describe…I guess he's kinda afraid to…
JACK
Well you know what Val wrote?
CODY
Val? No.
JACK
Val King.
CODY
What'd he write?
JACK
He said it was all her fault.
CODY
Yeah?
JACK
That she deliberately caused all this.
CODY
Yeah?
JACK
Yeah. Val of course is mad.
CODY
He must be.
JACK
But he says it was all her…her.
CODY
Jesus.
JACK
Deliberately put the glass on her head and dared Bull to shoot it off.
CODY
Well you know after she was walking around the room with him for five years while he sits there and shoots all the time, remember in New Orleans that…shootin at the Benzedrine tubes with his cap - with his pellet gun, you know, sit across the room all day, and he'd sit there, and about like where the candle bottle is.
JACK
We used to rush to put the fresh benny tubes up.
CODY
Yeh, put the fresh benny tube up, and then he's shoot, get up and walk over, and put a tube up - very hard to hi, you know, hard to hit!
JACK
And then I'd do it.
CODY
He made one out of two, one out of three, sometimes - very good, see? And we couldn't hit it hardly, maybe we might hit it once; then he's show us how to draw all day you know, all day long he'd keep showing you how to draw the gun: "Now don't hold it up here! Don't shoot before you get it out! Hold it down here, hold it low, take you time, aim," you heard him, a hundred times, show you how to draw the gun…
JACK
After you left Mexico we used to draw all day.
CODY
Yeah? Draw all day! Hear that, see? I didn't say a thing with him in Mexico, I'd stand right there or somethin…
JACK
Jess drawin…
CODY
See to see who's first, see?
JACK
See who's first…
CODY
See? "But I got ya, now, see I got ya Jack! That's aimed right at your heart, there, right at yore belly, see you was a little off to the side here, see?"
JACK
And she would be laughing all the time.
CODY
Yeah, so you can imaging her being around that al the time, you know, naturally some night she's gonna say, "Come here and shoot this off my head." It's very plausible as you think about it, you know, I mean it's not only plausible it's just the thing you'd expect like we were earlier gonna speculate on what's gonna become of everybody, you know, like we know what happened to June, and we know what happened to Finistra, what's gonna happen to, say, Irwin? Or what's gonna happen to, say, you, or Julien, you know what I mean?
JACK
Oh yeah! We didn't do that!
CODY
We didn't do that, no; 'cause I didn't have any ideas…to talk about.
JACK
Sudden death?
CODY
Well now, just as you could surmise what would happen to June so too you could happen to surmise I suppose…
JACK
Would you have surmised that would happen to June?
CODY
Well, you wouldn't expect her to do that, though, in the end, because…she…herself is - you know, she's used to his hangup, you'd think, and so she'd go, see? But we could speculate like what's gonna happen to you and me somehow that way - perhaps?
JACK
Yeah.
CODY
Yeah.