Dear Jim and Dylan,

The Kerouac Project gave me plenty, though I am not really at liberty to discuss the economics, because I don’t think everybody has gotten the same, just depending on what is happening with the project at any given time.

I can say they pay you in free rent and free utilities and free food through use of a gift card at the local super market -they do not pay you in cash. So you will need money. You need money whenever anyway right?

It’s a wonderful house, a good part of town, and if you are sugar and spice and everything nice you will feel like a bit of a celebrity in town, you will …

This text was originally written during a week long correspondence with students and Naropa University Professor Junior Burke through an online class concerning Jack Kerouac’s life and writings. My vantage point as “guest lecturer” was that of living in residence at The Kerouac Project of Orlando and having been a former student of The Kerouac School at Naropa. The other students in the class were stationed across the globe, from Osaka, Japan, to San Francisco, California; and together we wrote a good many pages about a good many subjects -this is a culmination from my end. Many thanks to The Kerouac Project, to Junior Burke, Bob Doto, and to the class. Cheers.

Here I am, and pretty much left alone, …