Kerouac Scroll Unrolled

http://www.wbur.org/news/2007/68102_20070622.asp
Jack Kerouac "On The Road" scroll manuscript unroll at the Boott Cotton Mills Musuem, June 15, 2007.

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[donthavenosn]

why isn't he wearing gloves? there's oils on your hands.

[RudolfSchmidt]

makes me wanna puke, what art becomes when it dies. how people look at it during their lunch time or their afternoon off. I just can see them dig up kerouac's body and put it in fiberglass with the same stupid precaution. take pictures, open their mouth slightly. scratch their arm, wisper something in their boyfriend's ear.

I guess this is useless, but its been a long time since I've expressed anything to anyone.

[Mapleneckguitar]

Jesus Christ!!! Wear F-ing gloves you moron.

[ANEPals]

Where ARE your gloves, Jagoff? This scroll needs to be in an actual museum that knows what it is doing with manuscripts and cultural artifacts. Why is this not in the Smithsonian, or even MOMA?

[lloplop]

@shanuabuggyy what do you want to do with kerouac's scroll, shauna?

[filmerado]

Great video by the way..Thanks for posting.

[filmerado]

John Sampas certainly has been repaid millions of times for any kindness the family showed to Jack in life. Sold his raincoat to Johnny Depp for $20k. And they've spent hundreds of thousands to manipulate legitimate Kerouac scholarship & control Jack's legacy, all to cash in. It was determined in a court of law that Gabrielle Kerouac's will was fake, a forgery. Somebody should be in jail for that. Let's begin the discussion from that point.

[RudolfSchmidt]

@ydesdev Well, your comment makes alot of sense. We could debate about it (people's inner intents, their relation with art, etc.) for a while. Ultimately, what we see in others tells more about us than anything else. I wrote that comment 2 years ago when I was drunk. Sometimes when I'm drunk I act like I'm Holden Caulfield's retarted brother.

What I was really feeling sad about is our own mortality. My disgust was directed at what I perceived as a "lower " sensibility than mine.

[ydesdev]

@RudolfSchmidt: It's probably the same instinct making YOU click on a link about it... I'm glad convential people like myself remember Kerouac now and then, it gives them, us, me, and ultimately you, some perspective

[LAMF1968]

@jandean61

BRMC



[Ldale11]

@RudolfSchmidt While I can empathize to a degree with the intention of your comment, the idea of art "dying" strikes me as utterly absurd. As long as it exists in the consciousness (or, as some would say, the "heart" or "soul") of its fans, its supporters, it never dies. And as long as it is being reproduced (or displayed, depending i=on the art form), it lives.

[OL55CADDY]

@aztiff

Fuck you- The Sampas family were lifelong friends of Jack Kerouac took him in

and took care of him when he needed help until the day he died.