Lester was not the kind of writer whose prose was amenable to careful editing — there’s a reason one of his favorite words was ”emetic” — and there are plenty of occasions when whatever cocktail of uppers and downers was impersonating his muse led him right off the deep end into swirling streams of consciousness that would make even Jack Kerouac blanch.

emetic (n) : a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting [syn: {vomit}, vomitive, nauseant] – source: ”Some sliver of authenticity from the truckloads of stinking garbage”