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    "ocrText": "Re KERRY THORNLEY\n(His\nthere to PHILIP BOATINIGHT,\n3332 HARNEY ST., OMAHA 62,34)\nTO:SCIAMBRA\nThornley, from Boatright correspondence.\nthen to ARCHIVES\n7/22/63\nwhiter\n8/1/63 In Whittier, Calif.\ncolif.\n8/4/63-Ditto. \"Bud Simco, the Number-one men ón the dedication page of\nThe Idle Warriors, found certain parts of it very much to his taste-while\nnot pretending to understand the whole. Especially proclaimed the d comic\npeevishness, a feintly mad searching of pockets* passage en excellent\ncommunication.\"\nInterior Dialogue, a notebook I keep.\nOn page two he says,\"I am working as never be tore\", including up to 10 hours\nsleep, and \"I've averaged a page e day on e new version of The Idle Warriors\n.0h, yes, I started The Idle Warriors on April Fools Day --SO it's almost\n1/3 finished by now.\" Hardly a rapid pace, particularly for revision.\n\"Shortly after you left the Quarter, I Reckon beck, I beat the hell-fire-\nshit out of Millie one fine morning when she got bitchy. A number of things\nfollowed: (1) after two days of seufl-repentant uncertainty, I was overwhelmed\nby a sense of totel releaf (sic); (2) I spent the next few weeks reading\nAlan Watts, laying around various bars, drinking, trying to make Vic's\nnewest girl friend, Joan, extending friendly hands to Mim, Loy, and Lane;\ntrying to make Judy (Moe's daughter; I don't think you know her); having\na\ncasual affair with a little girl from North Carolins; dating Jessica; and\ndrifting from one party to another with a seldom-opened notebook in my hand.\nIn the midst of this, I got in a fist fight with Henry Avery -- Millie's\nlatestm grief friend of the moment -- in which I was able to severely gouge\nan eye, sprain my opponent's finger, and emerge with only a Bight wound on the\nleft forehead (the gouged eye his), He left me with Herman at his side,\nexplaining that gentlemen do not settle things in such a barbaric manner, end\nhim (Henry) shouting threats to get 8 gun and come after me. So I decided to\nkill him, since he'd initiated the first blow. I went back to the B'House,\nwhere the fight started, and tried to figure out whether to use a lead pipe\nor a knife. Vie finally telked me out of it. So, being now 8 woman-beater,\na street-brawler, and a militant do-nothing -- I was hero of the\nAl Thompson bought me a beer, once, even. Judy Thompson congratulated me on\nbesting up Millie and both agreed I had the makings of a fine writer . Evvery\ntime I entered the B*H,use, which became home to me more than ever, it was\nwith a different young lady on my arm than I last went out with. And each time,\nthe various table groups tried to outbid each other for my company lested\nalmost a week.o. I came away richer in friends and more tolerent of the\nFrench Quarter way to Western civilization. Even Francisco and I had a couple\nof bartop discussions and exchanged drink-buying honors. And that, Phil, is\nhow the Quarter got in my blood. upon major publication I may or may not\nreturn to school. I just want to spend the major portion of the rest of my life\non the banks of the Mississippi, writing at least a page 8 dey, and sailing\nthe trade winds that cross kix in the B'House\nAl Thompson coached me on\nmy writing, and I edmit, his advice was worth taking spend a couple of\nefternoons a week in class at his place or the local seloon.. This, as I\nsee it, is a remarkable self-revelation and conteins a number of leads. The\nletter closes, \"Peace, but not ENNXENZE et the price of surrender...\n8/31/63, Póstcard from Mexico City.\n10/3/63,\nA brief letter announcing his return and \"Vic is working in the\nOutrigger at the Sheraton. Jerry Jennings is sitting here playing word games\nwith Millie's daughter. Dick Hoffman is sitting at the bar, making talking to\nPat. Nothing has changed.. Now this is long after the Hoffman breakupp and it\nindicates both may have known Kerry. This letter concludes, with the feigned"
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