Sometimes in his dreams Clete saw a straw hooch with a mamasan in the doorway suddenly engulfed in an arc of liquid flame sprayed from a Zippo-track. He saw a seventeen-year-old door gunner go apeshit on a wedding party in a free-fire zone, the brass cartridges jacking from an m60 suspended from a bungee cord. He saw a navy corpsman with rubber spiders on his steel pot try to stuff the entrails of a marine back inside his abdomen with his bare hand. He saw himself inside a battalion aid station, his neck beaded with dirt rings, his body dehydrated from blood expander, his flak jacket glued to the wound in his chest.
It would be hard to cut out the adjectives. Seems to me many of them could be hyphenated to the noun or made one word; for example, wedding-party or weddingparty.
Here's a string of adjectives by Cormac McCarthy: "two heavy white china mugs." Note these are not coordinate adjectives and need no commas because they are of a different class. Here are the classes:
- determiners--the, a, two, some, Larry's;
- general--big, attractive, silly, perfect, special, tall, expensive;
- ages--young, old, new; [McCarthy didn't use this one, but could have added "old."
- colors--red, pastel, pale, brunette;
- origin/location--Swiss, Dutch, etc.
