Just got back from Indianapolis, did a lot of convention stuff (more on that later), and saw the original On the Road scroll at the IMA. Finally. Missed it in NYC so I was glad we could see it while in Indy. Amazing amount of changes and marginalia on the paper. Didn't realize he edited on the scroll.

The female guard kept looking at my husband and me as if we were crazy. No one else was looking at the exhibit at the time, so he and I stood a few feet apart from each other at the glass, taking turns reading aloud our favorite passages from the different sections, then leap-frogging each other to get to another part of the scroll. Sounded like a 50s Village poetry reading, complete with appropriate cadence, echoing off the tall museum walls.