Clunky Syntax?

[Mark Kohut]

One question is: is the sentence someone speaking, often unparsingly, or is it the author's clunkiness?

--- On Sun, 8/16/09, eojorav at gmail.com <eojorav at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: eojorav at gmail.com <eojorav at gmail.com>
> Subject: Clunky Syntax?
> To: "Pynchon List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 6:33 PM
> Is it just me or are there some
> sentences in IV that just don't seem to parse?
> 
> The most jarring example that I've come across is this,
> from page 137:
> 
> "The big time he'd been so crazy to get away from the beach
> and be promoted into."
> 
>