Wednesday, September 05, 2007

On the Road Again

Great photo of the manuscript at link.

if charlie parker was a gunslinger,
there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats: Artifact #1
: "The original manuscript for Jack Kerouac's On the Road, hammered out on a roll of teletype paper over an amphetamine-fuelled three week burst in 1951. The novel celebrates 50 years of publication this week. Currently, the manuscript belongs to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Orsay, who purchased it for $2.4 million in 2001, and will be on display at the New York Public Library (22 blocks north of where it was written) from November to March."

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