In terms of the debates. At this point most supporters of both sides are playing the lowered expectations game so hard as to claim that their guy is preverbal, and if they manage to speak in complete sentences, win!

My favourite was one of Obama's team suggesting that he could fall off the stage. I feel that raises my expectations for the debate, not lowers them.

Does this sentence make sense?

But those who have never experienced Wolfe’s hyperkinetic narrative style will behold within ample measure of the man in full.

I'm brain-fogged today and can't tell if it's actually nonsense, or if I'm just not up to decoding it at the moment.

I wonder if there's a drinking game set up yet for the debates.

Kate, actual nonsense. It more or less holds up grammatically until about "ample"

That sentence does make sense, but it took me a while to decode it as well, and I am not brain-fogged. It's the use of behold as a verb not in an imperative form that confuses, I think. "But those who have never experienced Wolfe’s hyperkinetic narrative style will [see] within ample measure of the man in full." And the last bit is so foofy.

Thanks, JenP. The more the merrier. I like hitting him up for the same word with multiple sentences, especially when I don't have to make them up :).

flea, the way you wrote it is still confusing to me! (The last bit is a reference to the title of another book by Tom Wolfe. But yes, so foofy.)

Flea, are you assuming that there is an implied object for "within"?

But those who have never experienced Wolfe’s hyperkinetic narrative style will behold within ample measure of the man in full.

Part of what's confusing is that it took several reads to realize that "behold within" must mean "behold within this book." Of course, Wolfe writes a lot of inexplicable sentences too.

Part of what's confusing is that it took several reads to realize that "behold within" must mean "behold within this book."

Oh, DUH. That's why I couldn't parse it. I kept tripping over the "of".