It was overwritten in ink on the typed script.
Shriver overwrites in every direction, but particularly in portraying Kevin as a monster from birth.
What this meant was that I spent way more time working on the background of the novel that I normally do, and overwrote in the early chapters.
It's campy, overwritten in places ("The word was like a breaking heart, a sudden peal of stifled bells in a gale, the last syllables of one dying of thirst in the desert"), and of gimcrack design.
The End of Alice – pretentious, humourless, and horribly overwritten in a cod-Nabokov style – is actually far from her best in this vein; the short stories and Music for Torching, her 2003 novel about yuppie parents run amok, are a much better bet.
That line is in the book, but LeRoy, who overwrites in the way that some people overdress, spoils it by strapping on an extra phrase: "I shout past the loud buzzing in my head, 'I'm digging myself out!' and watch clean, cold shafts of sun shadows rip into my flesh".
The researchers discovered that photos which had been snapped moments before the phone went into a freezer could be reliably recovered in full as they had just been copied onto flash storage but not yet overwritten in RAM by newer temporary data.
In a defining act, the doctor who examines Joss's corpse overwrites in "large childish letters" the word male with the word female on the death certificate, then goes out into the "pale, bloodless light" of a new morning – and blood is important in a book that so profoundly declares itself to be about parenting, family and, crucially, the role the imagination plays in these matters.
In order to guarantee correctness, certain values that are computed and overwritten in the original program must be made available in the adjoint program.
