Jack Kerouac described the image as a "long shot of night road arrowing forlorn into immensities."

VOA: special.2009.03.23

And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud by night Annabel Lee chilling my Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.

这就是原因，很久以前，在海边的王国，夜里一阵冷风从云中吹落,冻僵了我的;,于是她高贵的亲戚到来了,把她从我身边带走，将她关进一座坟墓,在大海边的王国里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The table where the men ate was so long that a server usually drove to one end of the table and stayed the night.

VOA: special.2009.01.24