VLVL Sentences

[jbor]

       Well, the problem of course was that he didn't look quite
    stupid enough. Had a certain luminous shade of skin not balanced
    out the wrong-length sideburns, the tightly rationed smile not
    likewise made up for the no-eye-contact lenses, why she'd most
    likely've passed on the venture and had to arrive at other,
    less hopeful arrangements. But it came about, after a night and
    a day of jackhammer sex, amphetamines, champagne, and
    Chaliapin Steaks ordered up from Les Saisons [...] (139-40)

This is the narrative filtered through DL's perspective and describing her
torrid sexual encounter with Ralph Wayvone in Tokyo. Correct me if I'm wrong
and there is an idiomatic American grammatical construction imbedded here,
but there seem to be two omissions of the word "by" in the second sentence.
One error might be put down as a typo and forgiven, but two?

This long chapter seems very disjointed in places, as if it had been patched
together in a bit of a rush from a bunch of different primary materials (one
of which would be the old "Godzilla" novel that Pynchon was said to have
been working on from back in the '70s).

By the way, I agree that the "VL is about WORK" mantra remains
unsubstantiated.

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