CofL49 - this read - Unlooping?

[Michael Bailey]

p.49: "...hearing the plot of The Courier's Tragedy, by Richard
Wharfinger, related near to unintelligible by eight memories unlooping
progressively into regions as strange to map as their rising coils and
clouds of pot smoke."

a)  "near to unintelligible" - why not "near to unintelligibly"
instead?  rather than join the author in dissing CofL49, or suspecting
a typo, is there a grammatical construction supporting that word
choice?  I tried once to defend my word choice of "he ran, quick"
instead of "he ran, quickly" in a composition class.  I meant he
himself was quick when he ran, I was trying to attach the quality of
quickness to the personal pronoun, not to his action. It seems like a
similar direction of attention here - the relation of the plot is
unintelligible...the thing that they are putting forth, the airy
structure assembled among the coils and clouds of pot smoke is near to
unintelligible.

b) "coils and clouds" - coils rising from the cigarettes between
drags, clouds rising out of their lungs into the air

c) unlooping - why not "unspooling"?
    i) looping conjures the tape loops of electronic music
    ii) unlooping - while a memory is stored it's looped, but to talk
or write about it, unloops it so it can interact with other  memories,
thoughts, perceptions

d) "unlooping into regions as strange to map" - they bring forth the
stored memories and the interaction of their talking about them (plus
the pot smoke) takes the conversation into strange places.  I've known
that to happen.



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