: .. what made a vivid impression on me was his extremely
terse prose
: style.
It's really something. And bits like this (from chapter
3):
Next day I was alone with her for a minute, and swung
my fist up against her leg so hard it nearly knocked
her over.
"How do you get that way?" She was snarling like a
cougar.
I liked her like that.
"How are you, Cora?"
"Lousy."
From then on, I began to smell her again.
That's *hard*.
Bill
--
William Denton | Toronto, Canada | http://www.vex.net/~buff/ | Caveat lector.
"Let's keep the party polite."
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