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BOSTON, Jul 27, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- For the first time, the original 119-foot scroll version of Jack Kerouac's breakthrough novel "On The Road" will be published in book form.
The frenzied, unedited "stream of consciousness" book was finally published after six years of rewrites but the 1951 original was never put out for public consumption, the Boston Globe said.
The scroll version will be published next year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the original novel by Viking Penguin.
It will include some sections that had been cut from the novel because of references to sex or drugs.
Eager to write freely and continuously and not pause to change paper in his typewriter, Kerouac used 12-foot rolls of paper that he later Scotch-taped together.
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