The 14th book* on my Kerouac bookshelf is Jack Kerouac's Desolation Angels (Riverhead Books, 1995), and the 14th sentence** (in honor of today being the 14th day of the month) is:
Aurora Borealis over Hozomeen-- The void is stiller
If you've never read Desolation Angels, start right away and you will learn the meaning of "Hozomeen."
*The next book was actually Kerouac's San Francisco Blues, but it doesn't lend itself to counting sentences so I skipped it for purposes of this project.
**After careful consideration, I have determined that trying to decide what constitutes a sentence in Kerouac's work is an exercise in futility. (The beginning of that last sentence is a movie reference. Can you name it?)
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