Laughter is sacred (BE340)

[David Payne]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:33:06 -0500, martharoostersingh at gmail.com wrote:

> She does laugh. Doesn't she? While droll and wry, and because the author has elected to use her narrative for most of the book, her sense of humor is very close to the implied author's

Oops, yes, I was remembering how we're told that Horst rarely laughs. Although come to think of it, does the story ever tell, show, or imply that Maxine's laughing? Maybe that just doesn't happen much in books?

Of course you're right that she has a sense of humor, mostly coming out too wry to be appropriately accompanied with a laugh. 		 	   		  -
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