#102

“Should Jack and I ever write a book – and none but we alive can remember the beauty of certain days and nights – some acts – Lucien throwing money in the gutter, Neal in 106th St. in East Harlem – Bill, sitting in the window in the damp furnished gray room, above old Riordan's, landlady refugee – talking about Europe in the 30's, and afternoon and night in Denver when we talked of birds, and afternoon in York Avenue when we created “Pull My Daisy” and “The Shrouded Stranger” and “Dr. Sax”, and evening we played Sebastian's [Sampas] record and afternoon in his house with Luanne and Neal and Al Hinkle, moments with Vicki and Huncke – Bill Gilmore's manners and age, Phil White in the Great days, and Hal Chase in love with Celine” (id, 355).