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and there are suggestions for further reading.
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It makes it into a real literary object,
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sort of like a modernist text.
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And what I love here is that, apparently,
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at the very beginning of the scroll,
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Kerouac made a typo, and the editor says,
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"I read it. I let the typo stand."
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Here it is, the editor, Howard Cunnell: "Because it so beautifully
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suggests the sound of a car misfiring before starting up for a long journey,
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I have left uncorrected the manuscript's opening line,
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which is 'I met met Neal not long before my father died.'"
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There is the fantasy that the writing approximates the actual car trip,