![]() Of course, in the published novel, there are paragraph breaks but in the scroll, there are none. It comes to Birmingham courtesy of Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts, who bought it for $2.4m (£1.6m) in 2001 before agreeing to a tour. Kerouac said he wrote fast because the road was fast."Ībout 22 of the scroll's 120ft will be on display in a specially built cabinet and while visitors will have to slightly tilt their heads, Ellis believes they will get a much deeper knowledge of what Kerouac was all about. He came to be able to use a typewriter in a way that has not been seen before or since. And he had great speed at typing, he became a lightning typist. ![]() "Truman Capote once accused Kerouac of typing rather than writing, I would say he was learning the ability of using the typewriter like a jazz instrument, like a saxophone. ![]() His typewriter became a compositional instrument. He wanted to record things with the most possible accuracy using the spontaneous technique. Courtesy of Jack Kerouac Estate On loan from Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay’s personal collection, the scroll is part of Visions of. ![]() It was 20 days of typing 6,500 words a day, flat out, in spontaneous composition. The original On the Road manuscript scroll. ![]() It is a record of the huge effort Kerouac put into composing it. The exhibition's curator Professor Dick Ellis said there had been a lot of competition to get the scroll which is itself spending a lot of time on the move, having toured a string of US cities and hitting the road to Rome once this show is over. ![]()
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