Which line from "The Railroad Earth" best illustrates the influence of jazz music on Jack Kerouac's style? old faces looking up over rimless spectacles bought in some West Virginia or Florida or Liverpool England
pawnshop long before I was born
o the reading rooms tick tock bigclock with creak chair and slantboards
I hear far off in the sense of coming night that engine calling our mountains
O anyway I'll be learning eventually to like the railroad and Sherman will like me some day