You mean because Huston inflicts the pain vicariously on the
reader? I get you. I'd still argue that Huston isn't being
sadistic. He's creating a sensory experience. He's saying
that violence hurts and describing very effectively how it
feels. I admire him enormously for that. It's much easier to
write from the point of view of the aggressors and pretend
violence doesn't hurt at all -- which I'd argue is more akin
to sadism.
I do appreciate, though, that whether it's sadistic or not,
you don't like it.
Al
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>> Isn't it masochistic? It's the narrator who's
experiencing the pain. If
>> it
>> was sadistic, he'd be inflicting it.
>
> Sadistic on the part of Huston, the
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