Common lore has it that Jack spewed this out in one long continuous amphetamine fueled scribal orgasm. This was before Facebook.. These days he would just scratch his hypergraphic itch by forcing a three page comment onto one of his friend’s posts and call it good.. or more likely just record a three minute rambling YouTube video that might go viral for a day or might never be noticed at all .. Makes you wonder how many classics that social media has killed before they were had a chance to be born.

Goes to show:

There's a mile of wire in a screen door.

Thanks for that, Mr. VanderLeun. Reminded me just what a genuinely superb writer Kerouac was.