BE: definitions of innocence (chs. 31, 40)

[John Bailey]

Also in the narrator's rant about the misapplication of the term
Ground Zero. Doesn't seem to be close to Maxi's close third person
style thus far, and really stood out for me.

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Rev'd Seventy-Six <revd.76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> p. 340:
> "...meantime the only help we get from the media is boo hoo the
> innocent dead. Boo fuckin hoo. You know what? All the dead are
> innocent. There's no uninnocent dead."
>
> p.450:
> "Everybody thinks they know more than her. The old sad delusion of
> every insect-free know-it-all in this miserable town. Everybody thinks
> they live in 'the real world' and she doesn't.... So that's what it
> is, to be an 'innocent person'."
>
> No flies on P. Just me, or does the author seem, ah,
> uncharacteristically angry in this particular outing?
>
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