Thursday, March 14, 2019

14th sentence of the 14th book



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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