Raymond Spencer

English

2 August, 05:56

Which line from "The Railroad Earth" best illustrates Jack Kerouac's nonstandard or invented words?

But it was that beautiful cut of clouds I could always see above the little S. P. alley, puffs floating by from Oakland or the Gate of Marin to the north or San Jose south

or some of them I can now as I leave hear beginning to disfawdle to wake in their rooms and with their moans and yorks and scrapings

I'm going down the steps to work, glance to check time of watch with clerk cage clock.

And the Bible on my desk next to the peanut butter, the lettuce, the raisin bread, the crack in the plaster, the stiff-with-old dust lace drape now no longer laceable