It still exists…

by meanhippie

Posted to Utterances on 2002-10-23 14:02:00

Parent message is 309867
…and was sold at an auction a few years back. A childhood friend – sampas, I think, Kerouacs’ brother-in-law – had possession of it and I believe he sold it – for alot of cash too.

Would love to actually see it – other than just in photos. I have read that, contary to popular belief, Kerouac actually did revise OTR quite a bit before publication so the original manuscript is slightly different and more spontaneous.

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