SLSL "TSR" "your last summary"

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Mon Dec 2 16:36:51 CST 2002


on 3/12/02 8:26 AM, William Zantzinger at williamzantzinger at yahoo.com wrote:

> I read it differently. The punch scene is quite
> muddled. Who is it that swings? Is it Lardass or is it
> Baxter? 

I'd say (pronouns, context) it's Baxter, who'd "been trying to put the make
on a girl whose date was already too drunk to fight about it" on the
previous page. It does read a bit like a movie scene.

> It reads like a movie. The army men  go into a
> crowded college bar on a Friday night and get in a
> fight.

best




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