His story, as clearly as could be made out among the abrupt changes of register which typify the adolescent voice, exacerbated by the perilousness of the situation, was as follows.
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"His story" reads as history therefore this entire sentence should be read as a commentary on history. Don't @ me.
See, what Pynchon is saying is that the United States was still young when the War Between the States happened and so, in documenting it, it might not have been told clearly and thus subsequent attempts to make the United States better were muddled in the miscommunication of what actually happened and therefore we're all still paying for the United States' sins. See, it's hard to tell the truth in a "perilous situation," meaning that the accounts of time were subject to the rebuttals and accusations and remonstrances and, above all, the violent acts of the rebels who tried to divide our nation to maintain the right to keep other people as slaves.
So the history of the adolescent United States could not clearly be made out due to the inefficacy of its adolescent voice and also because it was being constantly threatened by rough vandals and white supremacists.
Go ahead. Just tell me that isn't what's being said here!
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