For Kerouac, the signified is a template, not to be reproduced but entered into, much as a musicain might move through an improvisation with others. Point of view changes moment to moment even as the scene remains, if not stable exactly, in sight. In no other writer of fiction is the relation between sentence and signified so closely alligned. Form is nothing more than an extension of content. Content is nothing more than a confrontation with form I distrust the theory of meaning as a search among word roots.
Etymology is hierarchy.
At the time, the idea for the overall structure did not become clear until I was already in the act of writing. As if there were any other answer than that available through the process of reading the text. The double hypotaxis of fiction is its secret allure, and indeed the origin of many of its effects. The symbolic chain of meaning, existing solely on the plane of the signified, serves to veil the linguistic chain, which is everywhere. In reality, it is none of the above.