They're No Angels
Watman, Max
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...His story, "The Department of Nothing," is a rambling and dull recitation from a rambling and dull child...
...Only once is it any fun, and in that bizarre case, the narrator is a dog...
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...It's an entertaining scene, but leaves one wondering if the writer (and every other writer in the book but one) has taken too seriously that old saw about lopping off the beginning and the end of a short story to make it good...
...That's a fast dog: Well that's me...
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...The authors have scratched their heads, licked their pencil tips, and set about devising an "interesting" point of view-an old lady who has fallen down, a mime, a museum guard, teenagers-but their inventions amount to little...
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...As far as I can tell, these words mean that people will swear a lot, and have a kind of weighty melancholy about them, and that there will be sex...
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...This goes on until one finds that while the eyes still move across the page, the brain is refusing to process anymore...
...never mind...
...School is the Paper Department, where they have this special doom-paper so that anything you write on it is doomed...
...He snuck out of a gas station bathroom and hired a fifteen-yearold car thief to drive him to the home of a reporter who had been badmouthing him...
...Most people call it real life, but actually it's called the Department of Nothing...
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...We find a woman on her bathroom floor, unsure of how she got there, unable to get up and partially paralyzed...
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...Tom More, Nick Carraway-tell us their stories both with what they say and with how they say it...
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...It does not feel designed to sit alone, but rather to introduce us to someone, or to set something up...
...It is a simple story written with easy genuineness, in which Stephen interacts with his family and strangers and dilates about his grace and speed...
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Vol. 34 • May 2001 • No. 4
