Creeping Figs

[Carvill John]

Much as I love Vineland, and definitely *not* wishing to stir up the whole 
political debate around it, I've always found the opening sentence quite 
odd:

"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in 
sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of 
blue jays..." etc.

Ok, leaving everything else aside, does that 'in sunlight through' strike 
anyone else as slightly jarring, as if we'd expect something else between 
'sunlight' and 'through'? Some variant on, say, 'in sunlight that', I dunno, 
'shone through', 'filtered through'.......?

Any thoughts?

Cheers
JC