LISS/STEPVR vehicle census (3rd part) def not exhaustive / sentence fun

[Michael Bailey]

49) at least one aircraft carrier sighted on station just off Patrick's
Point (CAMP anti-marijuana flotilla) (p222)

50) AWACS planes (CAMP anti-marijuana aerial presence) (p222)

51) parrot smuggler's "all-chrome Kenworth/Fruehauf combination known as
the Stealth Rig (p222)

52) Dr Larry Elasmo's "long chocolate Fleetwood" (p226)

53) Rex's Porsche 911

54) "trolley cars...beneath grimy black webbing that stretched in all
directions, all converging in a desert-yellow plaza downtown, the cars
painted yellow a shade sunnier than the pavement and trimmed in some tepid
green - messenger cables, hangers, and trolley wires sprung from brackets
on wood poles trembled and sang and cast shadows of intricate frogwork as
sparks went crackling, nearly invisible in the day's glare" (p242) Frenesi,
in some city in order to testify before BV's grand jury, these are not New
Orleans trolleycars, nor San Francisco's, are they?

55) small convoy of field-gray truck (p248) which carries Frenesi et al
away from PR3 out to "the ragged polygon at the end of the classified
freeway, labeled only "National Security Reservation."

56) '57 Chevy Nomad DL and the boys follow in aid of Frenesi

57) a Camaro of uncertain age and color (p257) DL and Frenesi in Quilbasazos

58) bad Ninjamobile (p266) DL's Trans-Am in 1984

59) a taxi lit up like a canteen truck (p287) Hubbell Gates took a cab ride
to see the new baby Prairie

60) a small cavalcade of unmarked Buicks (p292) Brock's back in town

** OT - some have criticized this sentence:

By the time she began to see that she might, nonetheless, have gone through
with it, Brock Vond had reentered the picturer, at the head of a small
motorcade of unmarked Buicks, forcing her over near Pico and Fairfax,
ordering her up against the car, kicking apart her legs and frisking her
himself, and before she knew it there they were in another motel room,
after a while her vists to Sasha dropped off and when she made them she
came in reeking with Vond sweat, Vond semen - couldn't Sasha smell what was
going on? - and his erect penis had become the joystick with which,
hurtling into the future, she would keep trying to steer among the hazards
and obstacles, the swooping monsters and alien projectiles of each game she
would come, year by year, to stand before, once again out long after
curfew, calls home forgotten, supply of coins dwindling, leaning over the
bright display among the back aisles of a forbidden arcade, rows of other
playeers silent, unnoticed, closing time never announced, playing for
nothing but the score itself, the row of numbers, a chance of entering her
initials among those of other strangers for a brief time, no longer the
time the world observed but game time, underground time, time that could
take her nowhere outside its own tight and falsely deathless perimeter.

- first - lady gamer!

I think it parses.
The part where one might object is the sequelae of "before she knew it"

but these are all lawful subordinate clauses:

before she knew it
- there they were in another motel room

nice manageable clause


before she knew it
- after a while her visits to Sasha dropped off etc etc etc
(I think this is the one Gerald Murnane rejected, but you *could* do this
in a sentence if you felt like it, imho.
For instance -
"Before I knew it, after awhile I was thinking in long, convoluted
sentences." You get the "before and after" contrast with an "understood
but". Tickles my funny bone.)

this clause is questionable and makes me go, where's the colon/semicolon
list format, oh yeah, we're in unreliable subjectivity here, I'll buy it

before she knew it
- and his erect (etc) (etc) (etc) (etc) etc)
 This is the 3rd and final item in the list, flagged by the "and"

this clause takes over. this clause goes on and on. this clause likens BV's
member to a joystick, which makes him a video game, and develops the
metaphor.

Does it all have to be one sentence?
Quien sabe, mine but to read. It doesn't bother me, maybe the feeling of
headlongness evokes a sympathy one might not otherwise feel.