Which line from “The Railroad Earth” best illustrates Jack Kerouac’s nonstandard or invented words?
Answer
A
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
B
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
C
I'm going down the steps to work, glance to check time of watch with clerk cage clock.
D
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