On The Road Uncut

Great to see that Kerouac's On The Road is finally going to get a proper release in its unedited original version. I hope the publishers release it as an actual scroll rather than as a plain old bound paper back. Unlikely, but how cool would that be?!

This little nugget from the article makes me wonder how they plan to handle the ending:

"Some specialists say they prefer the unedited version, which features a different first sentence than the published novel, as well as a more abrupt ending.

A cocker spaniel owned by one of Kerouac's friends apparently ate the last section, according to Jim Canary, the head of special collections conservation at Indiana University's Lilly Library"

Will the re-release just cut off where the scroll ends or will the publishers tack on an ending based on the currently published version?

CNN on the scroll
BBC on the scroll