On The Road, The Original Scroll < 2027 >

: Unlike the published book, which used pseudonyms like Dean Moriarty for Neal Cassady, the scroll uses the actual names of Kerouac's friends and muses.

Typed in a frantic three-week marathon in April 1951, the scroll is a 120-foot-long continuous roll of translucent Japanese tracing paper. Kerouac taped the sheets together so he could feed them into his typewriter without ever having to stop his train of thought to change pages. The Raw, Unedited Beat On the Road, The Original Scroll

The Road Unspooling: Jack Kerouac and the Legend of the Original Scroll : Unlike the published book, which used pseudonyms

: The original draft was typed as a single-spaced, continuous paragraph without chapter breaks or standard margins. : Unlike the published book