--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kent Morgan wrote:
>
> Am I the only person who can be turned off
this
> quickly by mistakes of this type?
>
> ***************
> Generally they don't bother me, but reading
Goodis's
> Cassidy's Girl, he talks about Cassidy going into
the
> bus station in the morning and checking the
tires,
> adjusting the carburetor, doing a tune-up, and
then
> noticing the springs are worn so he finds a set in
the
> backroom and changes them, then does the day's run.
I
> had to laugh. It's obvious that Goodis didn't have
a
> clue what changing a set of springs on a bus
would
> require.
>
> Jack Bludis has noted that when this breach of
reality
> drags you out of the story again and again,
it
> threatens to call the writer's skills into
question.
> I buy that.
>
>
Right, right. I read a short story not long ago where the
nose was "centered" on a person's face. That one gave me
pause for a moment. Is a nose really in the dead center of a
face?
Ed
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