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Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The poet typed on a scroll for three weeks in the spring of 1951.

Posted on July 5th, 2012
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    is this a thing that’s sold because i want
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    This scroll was on display at Emory University in Atlanta a while back.
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    hopefully my summer o god i can’t stop hoping
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