These are the best ways to get a message to Neil Lowe:

1. Scrawl it on the inside of a matchbook cover from some dingy dive on the wrong side of town, where junkies mumble benedictions to silent streetwalkers. Place the matchbook in an empty wine bottle and feed it to the ebb tide.

2. Write it on the fly leaf of Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn, immolate it and let the smoke drift straight up into a crystal clear February sky.

3. Leave it with Cassady and Kerouac at their table in the corner of the Mudcat Tavern, they'll see that he gets it (or not).