Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned

I saw this about 20 years ago in an exhibition at the Denver Library. I'd wondered how they really knew who the real people behind the characters were, it turns out that Kerouac didn't change any names at first so it's right in the manuscript.

I'd heard about it from a friend in the mid-80s, this friend was an aspiring writer and he mentioned OTR but then was musing about his new word processor typewriter, saying that he felt like the need to physically change pages added breaks to his writing process and he was worried that with the basically infinite page on the word processor it would be too easy to write crap. I wish I had a way to look this guy up and get his take on writing today.

Not the first time, it was auctioned in 2001: https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-2053069

I noticed the lack of glue and yellowed tape. Actually it consists of strips of paper that are 12 foot long, taped together.

Does it come with amphetamines to go with the experience?

It's hard for me to understand how stuff like this isn't in a national museum.