Working At Cross Purposes?

[Dave Monroe]

Thomas Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49 is an example of a novel that
doesn't challenge the reader to interpret it, but does challenge the
reader to complete it without succumbing to paranoid schizophrenic
thought patterns. Pynchon's uses the text to trip up the reader's
rhythm and confound perception. He does this specifically by placing
complex sentence structures into longer passages filled with simply
structured sentences. This builds a cadence that pulls the reader
along, only to trick the mind into feeling it has lost its place when
a sentence doesn't follow the same pattern. The eye automatically
scans to the top of the paragraph and you wind up rereading portions
of the text. This, perhaps more than anything else I've read, strikes
me as the deliberate incorporation of play into a literary form....

http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/2008/07/working-at-cross-purposes/