Brief thoughts on sentences

Been thinking recently about the way Selby Jr. (REQUIEM) and Mitchell (NUMBER9DREAM) use words to make sentences.

The most remarkable thing about the way that both of them write is the way they use adjectives.

I don't have Mitchell on hand, but I do have Selby.
"...grinding with their laughter..."

Both of these authors combine words to make descriptions that are not antithetical, so much as unexpected, but perfectly correct. Marion and Harry are "grinding with their laughter," and in retrospect it seems like there's nothing else they should be doing at that exact moment besides grinding with laughter.

Not really sure if this makes sense to anyone that isn't in my head. Bah.

Selby is a slow read for me. I started it nearly four days ago, and I've only read forty pages. Part of this is due to the way that Selby writes (no shit), but literally, the way he forms the text. He doesn't use apostrophes and uses carriage returns as little as humanly possible. I know that part of it comes from the mechanics of the typewriter, but this irks me regardless. I'm a bit of a stickler when it comes to grammar things like that, but with him it does not seem unreasonable.

All of this aside, I'm not sure what I have to work through in order to get a re-start on the script-thing...