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found this on zen-lunatic.com: The Official Website of Jack Kerouac.
Just heard that his original manuscript of "On The Road", which is actually a 120-foot scroll, has been auctioned off for $2.2M. That is the most that has ever been paid for a literary piece. You HAVE to read this book. This is from the man who created the movement and way of life known as the BEAT GENERATION.
An excerpt from the book (although if you see the manuscript, he did not have paragraphs. just a continuous stream of consciousness):
"...But we forgot that and headed straight for North Clark Street, after a spin in the Loop, to see the hootchy-kootchy joints and hear the bop. And what a night it was.
'Oh, man,' said Dean to me as we stood in front of a bar, 'dig the street of life, the Chinamen that cut by in Chicago. What a weird town--wow, and that woman in that window up there, just looking down with her big breasts hanging from her nightgown, big wide eyes. Whee. Sal, we gotta go and never stop going till we get there."
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