On and Off Kerrrouac and McCarthey

When asked if he understood James Joyce's writing, the composer John Cage said that he enjoyed Joyce precisely because he didn't understand it. He added “I enjoy Joyce, I am an enjoycer”!!
I think it was Abbas kiarostami the Iranian film director who once said he preferred films that sent him to sleep in the cinema but that woke him up once he got outside. I like this idea, that a film or a book creates a kind of dream state that we can inhabit when we experience it and then starts working on us when we leave or finish it.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy sent me to sleep. After I had woken up, It started working. For days and months it has been sitting there, somewhere in the back of my brain, quietly, working. But working at what? I have no idea.
When I think of the Road, a split second before I do, I sometimes insert the word On in front, so that The Road becomes On the road, and now I am thinking of Kerouac.