It's like trying to emulate "normal old school" The New Yorker prose, which is usually pretty... wordy I guess (but not in a bad way!). But it ends up failling

It's like trying to emulate "normal old school" The New Yorker prose, which is usually pretty... wordy I guess (but not in a bad way!). But it ends up failling pretty hard at doing that, so it just makes the whole thing sound weird.