Clunky Syntax?

[alice wellintown]

That's his trade mark; he write beautiful prose, wonderful sentneces
that make us go WOW! but he also writeschuncky syntax and sentences,
and even paragraphs, that drift into a haze or a fog. Some of these
can be down to theme or tone or style setting mood or tone, but some
are simply poor and tax the reader's mind for no reason. Again,
Pynchon could use a better editor.

I joked a while back about the lack of fanboys, meaning the use of
commas with coordinating cunjunctions, but it got lost in the fog.

For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.

There are standards that shift and it is the job of writers to mess
with the standards and establish better ones to be messed with.

Reading AtD I've come to appreciate some things about this author.
He ain't perfect.  Oh, and he's a smart-ass. Kute. Too Kute much of
the time. He loves the sound of words and he loves to mess with names
and whatever is floating in the air or in the news or on the tube.

He is no conventional Lefty.


On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:33 PM, <eojorav at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it just me or are there some sentences in IV that just don't seem to parse?
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> The most jarring example that I've come across is this, from page 137:
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> "The big time he'd been so crazy to get away from the beach and be promoted into."
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>