Mmm, that's it exactly. The last one like that I remember reading was Steven Brust's Cowboy Feng's Space Bar & Grille, which I quite enjoyed on the whole. It just had this one part that went on for a couple of pages that I had to read twice (with finger, attributing as I went) before I got the sense of it. And I still had the overlay of my initial impression of the conversation having gone the other way confusing me...Come to think of it, Zelazny does that a bit, too.