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# Cash Auto
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4772/
- Published: 2006-06-26T14:22:10.000Z
- Updated: 2006-06-26T14:22:10.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

My wife bought me Johnny Cash's autobiography as a Father's Day present. I've been flipping through it. I was hoping for more information about his first wife, Vivian, but she supposedly asked Johnny to keep her out of his public life, and he honored the request. I get the impression he never got over the guilt of what he did to her.

In any event, I ran across the following passage recounting an episode from his wild days in the late 1950s (which extended into the late 1960s):

> When that Caddy hit the tree, the flames shot up a hundred feet or more and burned until the whole propane tank was empty. The valve had been wide open, knocked loose when the tank started rolling around in the trunk.

> I was okay: bruised and cut and scraped and burned--my skin looked like an alligator's--but basically sound. They covered my face with vitamins A and E and I healed up nicely, with no scarring at all.

> I looked terrible at first, though--so bad that when a friend of mine visited me in the hospital with his pregnant wife, she got very upset, and later that evening she miscarried.

> You might have been thinking my wrecks were pretty amazing in a live-fast, die-young, hell-bent kind of way. What I think is that the life inside that woman was too young to die. I also think it's a good idea to dwell on the literal meaning of 'hell-bent.'

Pro-life and devil-fearing. Not bad for a man who took more drugs than a beatnik. [He's a puzzle](https://thedailyeudemon.com/2259/).