For all you Sputniks...

[tatsujin]

[Charles]

[quote="tatsujin"]For all you Kerouac fans:

[tatsujin]

That scroll has had quite a trip itself, I'm amazed it's still intact! Make sure you go and see it if you get a chance

[Charles]

That scroll has had quite a trip itself, I'm amazed it's still intact! Make sure you go and see it if you get a chance

It's not quite fully intact, a few small parts of it have deteriorated and are missing. It was written on a roll of thin vellum tracing paper, and it's a miracle it hasn't crumbled into dust. It will, eventually.

BTW, here's a story I wrote when I heard about the scroll's exhibition, about someone who was obviously inspired by Kerouac. You will see the connection, even if I didn't make any explicit reference to Kerouac.

[AssKissinger]

Karuac's cohai pulled a Hemingway

I hate Karuac and Thompson. On The Road can bite my nads and so can Fear and Loathing

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050221/ap_on_re_us/obit_thompson

Author Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself

ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He was 67.

[Mulboyne]

[Charles]

I just heard the news, and I am sad. I grew up on HST, back in the post-Nixon era everyone wanted to be a journalist, picking either Woodward & Bernstein or HST as their model. You can guess who I picked.
I actually saw HST once, he came to our campus to give a "lecture" back in 1975. I was sitting up front, and people were throwing joints at the stage and falling short, it was raining drugs. HST was stinking drunk, and was so incensed at the stupid questions people asked that he refused to answer except with a "yes" or "no." I walked out after about half an hour. But I'll never forget it.
HST was a true original. He was past his prime, but once in a while he could write something that came close to his earlier genius. In particular, I recommend reading the piece he wrote just after 9/11, When War Drums Roll.