I was very impressed by Thompson's ending to _A Hell of A
Woman_. The alternate lines, one in italics and the other in
roman, really shows the disintegration of a mind under the
stress of self-contempt and a nightmare circle of romantic
fantasy and the horrible reality of self-discovery. I read on
rara-avis recently that Thompson was influenced by Faulkner
and I wonder if this is stream of consciousness ending is an
example. Also, it seems to be an early example of the "post
modern" indeterminate or alternate closure, where reality has
disintegrated for the narrator. I assume that this novel
ranks almost as highly as _The Killer Inside Me_ as a study
of a psychopathic personality.
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