Neal Cassady

Even in college I was struck with how hyperkinetic the Neal Cassady character in On the Road sounded. He was always moving and yelling and talking. I was reminded of this in The Electric Koolaid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. On page 359, Neal Cassady is described this way: "He's wound up like a motorcycle, kicking and twitching and ticking and jerking at the knees, the elbows, the head...He's off on a dazzling run of words." Was ticking really ticcing? Perhaps it was all the speed he was taking. To get a good look at him myself, I assumed youtube would have some videos. In Acid Test they are always filming, so it seemed like a fair assumption. There is surprisingly little archival footage available on the web. There is one video of Ginsburg and Cassady talking in a SF bookstore, but the quality isn't very good (at least it wasn't on my computer). The question is whether the energy that Neal Cassady was always interepreted as having was a movement disorder all along.