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What Jack Kerouac novel was typed on 120 foot rolls of teletype paper?
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#123368. Asked by 29CoveRoad. (Aug 31 11 3:26 PM)
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On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America.... he first draft of what was to become the published novel was written in three weeks in April 1951 while Kerouac lived with Joan Haverty, his second wife, at 454 West 20th Street in Manhattan, New York. The manuscript was typed on what he called "the scroll":[6] a continuous, one hundred and twenty-foot scroll of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size and taped together. The roll was typed single-spaced, without margins or paragraph breaks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road
This source says tracing paper. That's close enough for me.
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