HUGE scroll!

Okay so Amanda and I went to the IMA today. We made it without the GPS or getting lost, aren't you proud of us? haha. :)

The whole point of venturing there was to look at the scroll version of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. I honestly do not remember ever having heard of this guy or his book until P-dise suggested we go look at it. I was rather amazed by the scroll. It was incredibly long and it wasn't even entirely rolled out. If I remeber correctly, I think one of the information things said there were like 6ooo some words. And I think it took him like a week (or maybe it was a month, I'm not sure) to write it. I found it interesting that two strangers got together and worked together like Kerouac and Robert Frank did. It was interesting because not many people wrote in the way that Kerouac did; he sat down and just typed continuously on a long sheet of paper until he was done. (I find that a bit crazy myself, but I guess if it works, it works.) He only transfered it to the typical form of a book to please the publisher and his lawyer.

***Okay, so anyone who went there to see it probably saw the typewriter that said you could sit down and type on it... well I did, and I just wanted to tell you what I typed....

ap paradise european :) tana & amanda :)

....so i just thought I'd tell everyone because I'm sure there are at least a few people would find it amusing. :)