Creeping Figs

Keith McMullen keithsz at mac.com
Mon Sep 18 08:03:19 CDT 2006


The wording creates in the reader the feeling of not being fully awake.

I feel syntactically discomfited first thing in the morning.

On Sep 18, 2006, at 1:32 AM, John Carvill wrote:

> What's so difficult about this?

Perhaps it would be clearer if you were to read my original post? I'm
not confused as to what's going on, I'm just a little syntactically
discomfited by "..drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that
hung in the window...", as I'd expect something between 'sunlight' and
'through'.

Cheers
JC



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