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At about page 118 the lines quit reaching the right margin and the story quits making sense, so I suspect this is poetry. There's only one poem in the whole world that I ever liked and this isn't it. If it goes on for much longer (it's been about 10 pages now), I'm gonna have to bail.

The bumtalksgibberish, but so far, so good.

(I may have usheredin a whole new literary era -- by combing three words, not just two!)

He's overdoing the word-mashing. The way English works is when two words are very often seen together, the next step is to see them joined with a hyphen. After that, they often are joined to make one word. This is not always prudent -- particularly if the concatenation causes the reader to have to stop and re-read. Even total hacks know better than this, which is why we don't see "darklycomic" and "rollickingromp".

I'll give it a try. I don't really mind a bit of word-concatenation, I'll even put up with Stately, plump Buck Mulligan", but if he goes all "riverrunriverrun" on me, I'm out.