The 24th book* on my Kerouac bookshelf is Jack Kerouac's The Town and the City (Harvest/Harcourt, 1983), and the 24th sentence (in honor of today being the 24th day of the month) is:
See these men standing at windows, on which their names are written in gold letters, nodding down at the street when other townsmen walk by. (p. 4)Not his most famous book, and written in a very traditional style, Kerouac's The Town and the City is a good read. I highly recommend it.
*The next book on the shelf was actually Kerouac's Dr. Sax and the Great World Snake, but, if you know anything about this play, you know that it is written in such a way as to stymie efforts to count sentences.
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I remember the first time walking down Merrimack Street in Lowell and looking up and seeing those gold letters in the windows... Quite an experience.
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