SLSL "A Small Rain"

[Paul Mackin]

In "Introduction" P sez of death: worst of all they (the people in the 
story) hook it up with sex. Is this a slap at Hemingway?  Does not 
everybody  think Chapter 13 in _For Whom the Bell Tolls_ when they read 
the denouement of "The Small Rain" (sex scene)?

" . . . . that I feel I wanted to die when I am loving thee."

"Oh,' she said, "I die each time. Do you not die?"

"No, almost." But did thee feel the earth move?"

"Yes, as I died. Put thy arm around me, please."

No. I have they hand. Thy hand is enough."

p. 160

Fancy language P calls it.

Not that Lardass and Buttercup are at all comparable to Robert and 
Maria. But death (big) all around them is a common denominator.

Why the cigar, by the way?  Seems a slightly ludicrous touch.

Dunno.

P.