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Originally Posted by Enrique
Actually Solo, I read that hoping Blarg and Cole would read it to tell me why they love it.
You don't find the stories in Cosmicomics fun and fresh? I think they are very original and fun to read.
Enrique,
Read and then reread the title story. On your second reading, follow the light. Note carefully how Carver shows the room getting darker and darker throughout--he's never obvious about this. Notice, too, the story of the old couple and the old man's desire to simply
see his wife. Keep in mind that vision is dependent on light. I think this is one key to this story, not that there really is a key. And then you'll come across a line that gives me the shivers it's so good: "The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from."
Four people in a room, and at the end of the story the only sound is the beating of the human heart.
Oh, by the way, there's another famous narrator in American Lit. named Nick; his last name was Carraway. Am I about to claim that "What We Talk About" is Carver's version of
The Great Gatsby? Yes.
PS. Enrique, If you ever decide to walk eight miles to see a movie, I'll sponsor you for two dollars a mile.