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Joan Vollmer byla americká žena, členka hnutí Beat generation. Studovala na Barnard College v New Yorku, kde se seznámila s Edie Parker, pozdější manželkou Jacka Kerouaca. Ona sama se ve čtyřicátých letech provdala za studenta práv Paula Adamse, s nímž měla dceru Julii, a který brzy odešel do armády. Když se vrátil, manželství skončilo. V roce 1946 začala žít s Williamem Sewardem Burroughsem. V roce 1947 se jim narodil syn William S. Burroughs Jr. V roce 1951 ji Burroughs v Ciudad de México zastřelil, když na hlavě držela sklenku, do níž se Burroughs snažil střelit. Existují však i jiné teorie, jak přesně k zastřelení došlo. Pod různými jmény byla její postava použita v několika beatnických knihách, včetně Jane Lee a Maloměsto, velkoměsto . Wikipedia  

✵ 4. únor 1923 – 6. září 1951
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“You should always cook eggs slowly" was Joan's advice in the kitchen on 118th Street. Joan did everything slowly, Edie reflected; she spoke, walked, dressed and read slowly, as if savoring every moment. She read everything, every newspaper and magazine. She liked the cartoons of William Steig in The New Yorker, particularly the one of the dejected fellow saying, "My mother loved me but she died." Joan didn't get along with her mother, and felt that she had nothing in common with her parents' country-club existence. She had rebelled against her background by living the New York City bohemian life.”

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“Joan's beauty was more than the sum of its parts. She was soft and feminine, and wore silky clinging clothes and small bandannas tied close to her head. In her reserve, in her achievement of a personal style, she reminded Edie of Garbo.”

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“kummel and have deep conversations about Plato and Kant while listening to classical music. Or she would spend the entire morning in the bathtub, with bubble-bath up to her chin, reading Proust. If you wanted to talk to her you had to do it in the bathroom.”

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Joan's idea of a good time was to go to Child's at 110th Street and Broadway and sip
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“I can never forget how June's present husband, Harry Evans, suddenly came clomping down the hall of her apartment in his Army boots, fresh from the German front, around September 1945, and he was appalled to see us, six fullgrown people, all high on Benny sprawled and sitting and cat-legged on that vast double-doublebed of 'skepticism' and 'decadence', discussing the nothingness of values, pale-faced, weak bodies, Gad the poor guy said: 'This is what I fought for?”

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His wife told him to come down from his 'character heights' or some such.
In Jack Kerouac's last work (The Vanity of Duluoz), he describes the scene in the 119th street apartment as "a year of low, evil decadence", beginning near the close of 1944:
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“…and worst of all, on June's huge doublebed with the Oriental drapecover on it we had ample room for sometimes six of us to sprawl with coffee cups and ashtrays and discuss the decadence of the 'bourgeoisie' for days on end.”

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“Edie thought Joan was the most intelligent girl she had ever met. She had an independent mind, always questioning what anyone said, including her teachers at Barnard. In one of her marginal notes in her copy of Marx's Capital and Other Writings, there are echoes of Burroughs's thinking: "Maybe Marxism is dynamic and optimistic, and Freudianism is not. Is one more serviceable than the other? Why does it always have to be either/or?”

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Ted Morgan, Literary Outlaw, discusses Edie Parker's impression of Joan Vollmer:
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