Sounds
Biblical to me, Bill. You've stirred my interest now.
Cheers,
Len
Len Engel, Chair English Department
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RARA-AVIS: Lansdale's Freezer Burn
I read Joe R. Lansdale's FREEZER BURN (1999) this week. It's
a carnival freak show noir with a femme fatale who's tired of
her husband, the owner, and it's very entertaining as all
Lansdale's books are.
The sap, a slow-witted lowlife Texan, stumbles into the
carnival by accident, after a hold-up that goes disastrously
wrong. It has some Siamese twins, a bearded lady, a dog-man,
some pinheads and pumpkin-heads
(as the sap calls them), and a frozen ice man. This ice man
is a major feature at the show and has a strange attraction
to everyone that sees it. The sap ends up living in the ice
man's trailer and the ice man is part of how everything goes
wrong at the end.
Have any of you read this and remember it well enough to
comment on the Biblical themes? There's something weird about
the ice man, and the carnival owner tells a story about how
it might be the petrified body of Christ. Then he says it
might not. Late in the story, before a double-cross and the
start of the final trouble, the sap ends up with "a few
pieces of silver" left over from money the owner gave him to
buy something. I may reading too much into it, and Lansdale
didn't make anything obvious about all this, but I
wonder.
Bill
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