Jack Kerouac's Scroll

Today Montana and I ventured out to the IMA while we were "job shadowing" my mom. And I am proud to say that we did not get lost or have to use the GPS. However, Montana could use some work on her map reading skills, nevertheless we got there.

Anyway, this scroll at the IMA is set in this display case that is about 30 feet long probably, but this isn't even with the whole scroll rolled out. I believe that his work, On the Road, had around 6,000 words and was written in about 21 days. (I think thats write. I may have just made that up, so don't quote me on that.) His logic behind writing on the scroll was that he didn't want his work to have any breaks in it, paragraph, chapter or page breaks. This is kind of smart but kind of just crazy. If you think about it if everything was written straight through like that your mind would not stop after every paragraph or chapter and think a complete new idea was about to come along in the writing. Your mind would just continue reading and never create breaks in the work. This could almost give you a different meaning of the work. He just went against the normal setup for writing, which was probably why he became so famous in literature.

So apparently Montana took a video of me, not a picture, so thats why I have a video not a picture! So Montana is right in the video when she says, " I don't think it took.".And we took it sideways, obviously, & I can't turn it! WOW! And we're in AP! We're special for sure!