How does Jack Kerouac use imagery in Desolation Angels?

Examples of Imagery:

The moon - she come peekin over the hill like she was sneakin into the world...

We all stand on the sad earth throwing long shadows, breath cut with flesh.

My desk is littered with papers, beautiful to look at thru half closed eyes the delicate milky litter of papers piled, like some old dream of a picture of papers, like papers piled on a desk in a cartoon, like a realistic scene from an old Russian film...