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Article: On the road again Exhibition unrolls Kerouac's famous scroll.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- December 30, 2006
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Byline: Erika Gonzalez, Rocky Mountain News
The pace: 6,000 words a day for 20 days. The fuel: coffee, although rumors flew that the stimulant Benzedrine was also partially responsible. The result: a 120-foot-long scroll that would eventually change the literary landscape.
"Went fast because the road is fast," Jack Kerouac wrote in a letter to Neal Cassady, describing the marathon session that produced On the Road. "Rolled it out on the floor and it looks like a road."
And now that paper path is wending its way to the hometown of its unconventional hero. The Denver Public Library will display 60 feet of the yellowed, original On the Road manuscript from Jan. 6 to ...
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