Which line from “The Railroad Earth” best illustrates the influence of jazz music on Jack Kerouac’s style?

The phrase “the reading rooms tick tock bigclock with creak chair and slantboards” uses a quick, shifting rhythm and compressed, improvised-sounding phrasing. That energetic cadence resembles jazz, whose rhythms and improvisation influenced Kerouac’s writing style. The other lines are more descriptive or reflective and do not show that rhythmic effect as clearly.

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