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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 3, 2011 20:55:56 GMT
By the way, it may only be that my brain is wired incorrectly, but I felt there was some tarot symbology in "Gone Away." Specifically, the exploding city on a hill seen in the distance reminded me of the Tower card. Not that this makes anything clearer, of course; quite the contrary.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 5, 2011 19:19:32 GMT
"Arabesque---The Mouse" was indeed very nice, though nasty. A certain aspect of it reminded me of L P Hartley's decidedly peculiar "Roman Charity," in which an imprisoned spy is breast-fed by his own daughter. Both of them are candidates for my proposed anthology, STRANGE LACTATION STORIES.
"Ahoy! Sailor Boy" is also fun, although I suspect it is meant as satire on the theme of shallowness.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 16, 2014 18:18:28 GMT
i got along fine with Arabesque: A Mouse, Cheese and "Ahoy, Sailor Boy!" if that's any use to you, not quite so well with Old Martin and Adam And Eve And Pinch Me though in the case of these latter, this almost certainly had plenty to do me not being ready for them. i was a very impatient reader before this board helped me calm down. "Ahoy! Sailor Boy" is also fun, although I suspect it is meant as satire on the theme of shallowness. I had the same reaction as Dem to "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me"--it didn't do anything for me. More recently, however, I came across "Ahoy! Sail Boy" in Cox and Gilbert's The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (which also introduced me to William F. Harvey's "The Clock," H. R. Wakefield's "Old Man's Beard," and Elizabeth Bowen's "Hand in Glove," among other fine stories) and thought it was one of the most original and amusing ghost stories I'd read in a long while. |
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