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The Original Scroll
ALSO BY JACK KEROUAC
THE DULUOZ LEGEND
Visions of Gerard
Doctor Sax
Maggie Cassidy
Vanity of Duluoz
On the Road
Visions of Cody
The Subterraneans
Tristessa
Lonesome Traveller
Desolation Angels
The Dharma Bums
Book of Dreams
Big Sur
Satori in Paris
POETRY
Mexico City Blues
Scattered Poems
Pomes All Sizes
Heaven and Other Poems Book of Blues
Book of Haikus
Book of Sketches
OTHER WORK
The Town and the City
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity Some of the Dharma
Old Angel Midnight
Good Blonde & Others
Pull My Daisy
Trip Trap
Pic
The Portable Jack Kerouac
Selected Letters: 1940–1956
Selected Letters: 1957–1969 Atop an Underwood
Door Wide Open
Orpheus Emerged
Departed Angels
Windblown World
Beat Generation
ON THE ROAD
The Original Scroll
JACK KEROUAC
Edited by Howard Cunnell
Introductions by Howard Cunnell, Penny Vlagopoulos, George Mouratidis, and Joshua Kupetz
VIKING
VIKING
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Copyright © John Sampas, Literary Representative, the Estate of Stella Sampas Kerouac; John Lash, Executor of the Estate of Jan Kerouac; Nancy Bump; and Anthony M. Sampas, 2007
Introduction copyright © Howard Cunnell, Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis, and Penny Vlagopoulous, 2007
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Kerouac, Jack, 1922–1969.
On the road: the original scroll / Jack Kerouac; edited by Howard Cunnell; introduction by Howard Cunnell, Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis, and Penny Vlagopoulos.
p. cm.
ISBN: 1-4295-5100-3
1. Beat generation—Fiction. I. Cunnell, Howard. II. Title.
PS3521.E735.O5 2007
813'.54—dc22 2007005306
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CONTENTS
Fast This Time: Jack Kerouac and the Writing of On the Road
HOWARD CUNNELL
Rewriting America: Kerouac’s Nation of “Underground Monsters”
PENNY VLAGOPOULOS
“Into the Heart of Things”: Neal Cassady and the Search for the Authentic
GEORGE MOURATIDIS
“The Straight Line Will Take You Only to Death”: The Scroll Manuscript and Contemporary Literary Theory
JOSHUA KUPETZ
Suggested Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Note on the Text by Howard Cunnell
On the Road: The Original Scroll
Appendix by Howard Cunnell
Fast This Time
Jack Kerouac and the Writing of On the Road
Howard Cunnell
1
“I’ve telled all the road now,” Jack Kerouac said in a May 22,