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by microtherion 970 days ago
The iconic example of a Swooper is Jack Kerouac, who typed up "On the Road" on a scroll of paper, so he would not disrupt his flow by having to switch pages: https://www.npr.org/2007/07/05/11709924/jack-kerouacs-famous...

But contrary to legend, it appears that said scroll did not represent the first draft, but the final product of numerous editing iteration.