That's my real complaint - he's not as good with it. He's trying to describe things the way RJ does, but I don't think his vocabulary is up to it. There's cases of settling for what my teachers in grade school used to call overworked words, or falling back on the word we might use in contemporary speech, but not one that Rand would use when describing something.

This is pretty much how I feel about the chapter as a whole. My first thought when reading the introduction was that the vocabulary was limited. The style was totally different.