BEER GRoup Read. More on style

[John Bailey]

And Maxine's bladder is unusually attuned to unusual truths, of course.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> All those incomplete sentences. "Couple years in fact" p.8 for
> example...shorthand communication. The times.
>
> P can play verbally masterfully with word concepts and does. I was
> immediately taken with his 'back in what still
> isn't quite the Day"...about Maxine's separation from Horst......as in his
> varieties of WTF?, I had never thought
> that "back in the Day' meant anything more than a past time...he gives it a
> meaning of Completed Time.....
> Done, Over...
>
> And, speaking of stereotype use, I loved the line where Maxine says to the
> guy in the LI bar (much later), "he laughed
> merrily, as poly-poly men do"....P IS having fun, satirizing even the
> narrator's 'vision'.....
>
> And then there is the toilet trope....Money as shit (from GR via NO Brown;
> Lew Basnight learning his truths).....
> from seeing the Arabs in a room marked Toilet to the other toilet meetings,
> P keeps this trope rolling merrily along.
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