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 Irsay, 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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I'd leave a more substantial comment on this, but I'm too busy giving you a standing ovation, Monsieur Cooke.
Fantastic!
Awww...shucks.
Everyone should go put on some Slim Gaillard and get reet.
Way to go Stephen! An awesome image. Wish he'd used low-acid paper, but then again teletype was throw-away. Somehow I imagine this discovered by truth-seeking aliens, hidden in a clay jar in a cave in the Adirondacks.
Irk. Too bad I missed this when it was in SF last year. Happy to see that the uncensored -scroll- version has finally been published.
type-o on the Colts owners name, Jim Irsay
Thanks for publishing the photo. You might want to take a look at my 1985 trip to Jack's Lowell at my blog Abstract Concept. abstractconcept.blogspot.com
Best, Brian Aldrich
Funny, though. Kerouac couldn't get Gaillard but Cassady was nuts about him. I always thought that said a lot about the two.
Here's some trivia: Gaillard was Marvin Gaye's father-in-law. Vootie.
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