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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (25678)	6/3/2001 12:12:50 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49844

Kerouac Manuscript to Be Restored Saturday, June 02, 2001 8:24 PM EDT news.lycos.com - - - - - BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, who bought Jack Kerouac's original ``On the Road'' manuscript last month for $2.43 million, said the frayed 50-year-old scroll will be restored by preservationists at Indiana University. Kerouac wrote the book during a marathon three-week period in 1951 on sheets of paper filled with single-spaced type and taped together to form a 120-foot-long roll. The edges of the cramped typescript are now eaten by time, paper deterioration and damage blamed on a dog that once gnawed on it. Published in 1957, the novel is one of the keystone literary works of the beat generation, chronicling an aimless, Bohemian odyssey by intellectual outlaws across the American landscape. Irsay, 41, said he first read ``On the Road'' as a teen-ager and was mesmerized by it. He said it's clear other artistic renegades derived inspiration from the book. ``You get pulled in by this luscious moment of hearing a Beatles song or being blown away by a Bob Dylan song and you want to investigate who influenced those people,'' he said Friday. Irsay said he will likely hold his first public unveiling of the manuscript in a celebration in Bloomington later this summer. He said some of his ``pals,'' including singer-songwriter John Mellencamp and musician Kenny Aronoff, may attend. Irsay, who bought the manuscript at Christie's New York auction house, isn't sure where the scroll will find a permanent home. He said he sees himself as the manuscript's temporary caretaker.