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The Lonely Sea: Collected Short Stories
Alistair MacLean
Her Benny
Silas K. Hocking
Vedere din Parfumerie
Silvia Kerim
Mysticism and Logic (Western Philosophy)
Bertrand Russell
The Analects of Confucious
Confucius
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
William James
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
New Scientists Books Staff, New Scientist
Mutual Aid
Pyotr Kropotkin
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
Olivia Fraser, William Dalrymple
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The First Third

The First Third - Neal Cassady The hustler bus driver who inspired seemingly everyone who had a public voice in the Beat scene, 1960's, predictably, didn't have the patience to finish his own autobiography. So many authors, such as Kerouac perhaps, are thieves of other people's lives.

I'd say Cassady (I think his name is misspelled here) was like the little brother you never had, but poorer, manic and more exposed. Read Kesey's essay, The Death of Superman for a look at how it ended.