BtZ42 p. 14 (Miller edition) Speaking of P's grammar

[Mark Kohut]

which we have, there is this:"....it is Loaf who borrows one's shirt
runs out of cigarettes finds the illicit one in your pocket and lights up
in the canteen at high noon, "

 No punctuation. Kerouac-like. Spontaneous bop prosody.

p. 11 "it came over in a rather delightful way", the voice high-pitched and
sullen, "none of my friends are that clever".  ...no 'was' or other word
here.

There is at least one scholar-critic who has argued with lotsa such examples
that our writer set out to subvert language as well as so many notions
within
our Western world....
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