Just as striking is the novel's voice, a Greek chorus of up-patients who narrate as though giving an orientation.
Die-hard boozers shuddered at the sight of him sipping a seltzer, as though giving up drinking was akin to his moving to Amish country.
He often unpicks sentences halfway through, going back to replace words with extremely similar words, trying to rewrite as he speaks, as though giving dictation.
This time around, however, Vernon is writing love songs to a series of places, some real ("Lisbon, OH", "Wash")., some imagined ("Hinnom, TX"), as though giving Sufjan Stevens a hand with his abandoned 50 States project.
His death by his own hand feels somehow like a betrayal, as though giving into the power of his darkest demons is something this wonderful man has done to us, rather than something he has done to himself or, even more accurately, simply done.
If this occurs, its much lower gas prices will likely rise as well, though given the size of the US domestic market, it is likely to be more muted than will happen in Australia.
The environs of the town and the nearby Catskills serve as inspiration, though given the generic titles ("Study for Mountain," "Lilac," "Stream"), identifying the places depicted is difficult.
There is in the documents no explicit statement adopting the 75 pit target as government policy (though given the sensitivity about putting anything in writing you would not expect one).
He thinks that good managers may be at least as valuable as science and engineering graduates (though given where he works, perhaps he is talking his own book).
To say as much, though, gives the books a chronicler's purposefulness that their sentences belie.
