shaved his upper lip every morning three times with, three times against the grain

[Joe Allonby]

I have to agree with Michael on this too.

Read it aloud. It makes perfect sense. It's conversational sounding. Every
morning he shaves three times with the grain. Then he shaves three times
against the grain. When he uses new blades he invariably draws blood but
keeps at it.

Sort of like: "I leave for work everyday at 6:45, driving on Storrow,
Thursdays, I sleep in then cook bacon."

The "...but on..." is implied in vernacular speech.





On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> this does replicate the way I would say it out loud:
>
> I shave every day, new blades I invariably draw blood.
>
>
> It's like if you're talking to somebody and you've already got them
> envisioning you shaving, you don't need to say "when I use" ---
> instead, into the ongoing shaving thought-form, you simply add the
> temporary variable "new blades"
>
> I know this passage is narration, rather than Mucho speaking, but this
> technique gives a closer, more colloquial feeling as if Mucho or maybe
> Oedipa (having witnessed it) is telling me about it.
>
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