Isn't it masochistic? It's the narrator who's experiencing
the pain. If it was sadistic, he'd be inflicting it.
Regardless, Huston describes physical pain as convincingly as
Goodis described psychic pain. I've no idea why one is a
problem and the other is not (would anybody object to a
writer who described the piecemeal destruction of a
character's mind? -- that's torture too). But I'm looking
forward to someone enlightening me.
Al
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>> Because of that particular scene or because you
didn't enjoy Huston's
>> writing or the book as a whole?
> I didn't get that far, reading about having his 50
staples removed was
> enough - I don't need to read about that
sadism.
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