Sentence examples for road scroll from inspiring English sources
"Watergate whistleblowing author of 'Blind Ambition' who, in Kerouac's original 'On the Road' scroll, still went by the name of his real-life inspiration, Neal Cassady".
"There is definitely ongoing interest in the unpublished Kerouac," said Penguin Classics publisher Adam Freudenheim, who revealed that Penguin had done "extremely well" with both And The Hippos..., and the original On the Road scroll.
Kerouac wrote urgently about the need to "go go go", and here is a rare opportunity to see the manuscript of one of the few books in the western canon that imitates the means of going – the On the Road scroll, the book as a road, paved in paper.
Everyone expected the auction of this letter to exceed its estimated $400,000 to $600,000, just as the On the Road scroll had when James Irsay swooped in and took it for $1.43 million, the highest price ever paid for a literary manuscript.
Your article and accompanying picture of Jim Irsay, the buyer of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" manuscript scroll ("First, Elvis's Guitar; Now 'On the Road,' " June 3), raise the question, "What would Kerouac say?" My guess is, he'd say, "I wish I'd burnt the damn thing".
Since its opening, the American Writers Museum has featured the temporary exhibit, The Beat Journey: Jack Kerouac's "On the Road". The scroll is on loan from Jim Irsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, who purchased it at an auction in 2001.
All apps available for use with the iDrive system, no matter the platform, must be "optimized for safe use" while driving (e.g. not requiring the driver to take his eyes off the road to scroll through a near-infinite list of songs), according to the press release.
The visual stimulus consisted of a virtual environment where a textured plane reproducing a straight single-lane road was scrolled at different speeds.
ON THE ROAD: The Original Scroll, by Jack Kerouac.
Gautam Malkani On the Road: The Original Scroll, by Jack Kerouac (Penguin Classics).
Howard Cunnell's useful edition, "On the Road: The Original Scroll" (Viking; $29.95), makes it clear that, despite his later talk about the spontaneous method of composition, Kerouac did not create the published book in a single burst of inspiration.
