books.google.com - The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhattan,...https://books.google.com/books/about/On_the_Road_The_Original_Scroll.html?id=Jr5jsdYci2EC&q=laughed&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareOn the Road: The Original Scroll