I've been away, and I haven't quite figured out where we are.
Thanks for
mentioning Sampson. Who else are we responding to this
week?
I too liked the Sampson story, the overall flow and some of
the dialogue.
The scene in the appliance store was first rate--a convincing
craziness, a
momentum into violence that typifies this character. Was
reminded of
"Natural Born Killers," on the one hand, and, with ugly-dumb
girl doomed to
be killed or abandoned, of something out of the world of
Flannery O'Connor.
Although a number of the sentences seemed "flat," the only
event that
struck me as forced was the last line--suddenly this animal
has a"pleasant
baritone"? But that's a minor thing in a story that sticks in
the mind, as
Doug said. You worry about people "like that" or "pushed to
that" who are
"out there."
Bill Hagen
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