Cliche Guevara
03-30-2009, 06:15 AM
Okay I was just rereading On The Road and I got to part where they drove to moss with Old Bull (Burroughs) and It gets to the part where Old Bull is talking about smoking weed.
"I just got back from Houston last week, went to see Dale about our black-eyed peas. I was sleeping in a motel one morning when all of a sudden I was blasted out of bed. This damn fool had just shot his wife in the room next to mine. Everybody stood around confused, and the guy just got in his car and drove off, left the shotgun on the floor for the sheriff. They finally caught him in Houma, drunk as a lord."
Then he talks about about how he could "knock out a hundred men with this gun and have plenty of time to make a getaway" and his wife then says "I hope I'm not around when you try it".
LOL, I was really high when I read it, so I may have just been paranoid thinking.
In case you didn't know Borroughs shot his wife in the face accidentally. When I read this I couldn't help but wonder why Kerouac would choose to write this in. I kind have a feeling that this is what Burroughs did. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think its far too much of a coincidence that Old Bull would say something like this, and in reality the character he is based on pretty much did the same thing.
Maybe he was informing everybody of what happened, because it was all very not mentioned in Junky, infact theres no mention of it at all. Theres a few pages about his wife but when you read it you're like WTF he has a wife and kids?
Maybe just a crazy theory.
"I just got back from Houston last week, went to see Dale about our black-eyed peas. I was sleeping in a motel one morning when all of a sudden I was blasted out of bed. This damn fool had just shot his wife in the room next to mine. Everybody stood around confused, and the guy just got in his car and drove off, left the shotgun on the floor for the sheriff. They finally caught him in Houma, drunk as a lord."
Then he talks about about how he could "knock out a hundred men with this gun and have plenty of time to make a getaway" and his wife then says "I hope I'm not around when you try it".
LOL, I was really high when I read it, so I may have just been paranoid thinking.
In case you didn't know Borroughs shot his wife in the face accidentally. When I read this I couldn't help but wonder why Kerouac would choose to write this in. I kind have a feeling that this is what Burroughs did. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think its far too much of a coincidence that Old Bull would say something like this, and in reality the character he is based on pretty much did the same thing.
Maybe he was informing everybody of what happened, because it was all very not mentioned in Junky, infact theres no mention of it at all. Theres a few pages about his wife but when you read it you're like WTF he has a wife and kids?
Maybe just a crazy theory.