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I think of Dean Moriarty.
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So, he's blasted open the syntax of that sentence,
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piled clause upon clause upon clause, phrase on phrase,
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to include that whole road in the one sentence.
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So, if the dream of Kerouac's language is
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to pour experience into language and make language immediate,
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this sentence is a very fine example of the payoff.
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There is a kind of goofiness at the center of it, "God is Pooh Bear."
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What does that mean?
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God is just a toy?
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God is a children's story?
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But then there is that lyrical, elegiac, always sad sense of longing,