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My Growing, Admiring Friendship with My Very Own Cancer
1995. June 12, 1995. Six page typescript (computer printout) in which Leary muses about the causes of the prostate cancer he was diagnosed with in January, 1995, discussing taboos about death and conspiracies against ejaculation. Inscribed by Leary on June 16, 1995: "To my dearest Pal/ Nelson [Lyon]/ Timothy." Lyon was a friend of Leary's as well as a longtime friend of Terry Southern and William Burroughs, among others. An original, unpublished manuscript, touching on both Leary's own personal situation and the larger questions of life and death, with a warm personal inscription to a close personal friend. Leary died in May of the following year. One vertical fold; several small water spots on page one; a small stain in the upper margins. Near fine. Unique. [#022029] SOLD

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