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Kerouac's original scroll
« Thread Started on Jul 10, 2012, 12:23pm »

Today I went to the small Museum of Manuscripts and Letters which is currently displaying the original manuscript of On the Road.

Of course, I also looked at hundreds of other manuscripts and letters by everyone you can imagine and the main thing that came to mind was what a difficult job it used to be to be a typesetter. So much of it is chicken scratch, or else it is written so small, from times when ink and paper were very expensive.

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« Reply #1 on Jul 10, 2012, 3:45pm »

As dictated by the Holy Spirit and so needed no editing.

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« Reply #2 on Jul 10, 2012, 11:17pm »

An edition was published several years ago and I bought it, not having read On The Road for probably 30 years at least.

I haven't been able to read it. No indentation, no paragraphing and no chapters. Dear God, what a mess! I can manage a page or so but I really find it very difficult to read.

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