It's here, it's here!

Kerouac's On the Road Scroll arrived yesterday and was rolled out. I saw it this morning at the HRC. Images of Kerouac splitting the teletype, taping it and rolling it up on the typewriter....his fingers tapping and ticking and racing with his thoughts..... What were the sounds when he typed , what did it sound like to hear him breathe between the typing? Who heard him, saw him, what did everything look like???? I'll never know but the sight of the scroll conjures up. It just conjures up.

Not many were there to view it when the museum opened so I was able to take it in slowly and walk alongside it. A few red marks, one or two green marks, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lines crossing things out, off to the side notes in pencil. Time has stained the taped together parts, they are yellowed and browned. The edges look crispy and brown, familiar typewriter font that you rarely see anymore. My eyes went to certain sentences, went to the negative spaces between the words, went to the words Mexico, crazy, New York, Lucien and I thought of all the metaphorical aromas...