It looks as if the politboro spent some of their holiday vacation time perusing the early work of John Dos Passos. He endeavored to achieve a stream of consciousness sort of approach to his writing and was successful most notably in the Camera Eye sections of his "USA Trilogy", while "Manhattan Transfer" is at times difficult to read due to the lack of apostrophes and commas in places where we're used to seeing them. While studying at Harvard, his roommate was ee cummings, and given his predilections against punctuation (much less capital letters) it's not surprising that Dos Passos spent much of his writing career eschewing such plebeian literary crutches.
Dos Passos resumed using "normal" punctuation after "USA" and the general quality of his writing declined, although this is thought by some scholars that it may be due to the fact that it was about this time that his politics began moving a little to the right of Glenn Beck, Benito Mussolini, and the Pope. But I heartily recommend the early parts of his oeuvre, particularly the "USA Trilogy". If it's good enough for the politboro, it's good enough for you, right?
-Eden (Dos Passos died on my birthday)(Miles Davis too)
