Why do some people call Neal Cassady 'the real genius behind the Beat movement'?
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Cassady was a close friend of many of the Beat Movement writers. He traveled with Kerouac and carried on an affair with Ginsberg.
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Cassady's ideas about writing inspired Kerouac's Beliefs and Techniques of Modern Prose.