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Diocesan Lay Reader in Charge Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Forney, Texas
...portrait is drawn by the victims, no one can doubt its reality. But there can be such a thing as too much detail, particularly if the details do not vary much. One rat bite can serve for a hundred. The assorted Ríoses are sometimes indistinguishable; the reader may find himself turning back to the chapter heading to see which one is talking now. He may get lost, too, in the endless procession of Ríos swains, lovers, husbands and cash customers, and in the steady passages between San Juan and New York...
Undeniable Claim. La Vida asserts this point with overwhelming strength. The Ríoses are trapped, trapped among other reasons by force of habit, even by inclination-"Hey, I'm proud to be poor!" says Simplicio-and once this occurs to the reader, he begins to lose interest in them. They are, to begin with, not very interesting people, unlike the Sánchezes, whose brotherhood to all humanity constituted a claim that no one could deny...
...only undergraduate prose in the issue is by Thomas Fallaw. His long story "We are These Witnesses" may demand greater interest in jazz and Protestant liturgy than all readers can provide. Fallaw gives us exhaustive and often confusing detail: "I go under his arm over my head;" "rising and making two medium steps, he pushed shut the door;" "touching the strings with his right forefinger." The protagonist, anonymous for 800 words, suddenly and confusingly becomes "Rip Sanson." There is also some pretty unidiomatic dialogue ("'What say to a good idea, Toby?' Rip kidded him") and this is a story...
...text-is both a pictorial record of Duncan's work and an autobiography. It shows most strikingly that Duncan the word chronicler is not as interesting as Duncan the photographer, if only because he exposes, like Halliburton, much more of his emotions and his self-concern than the reader cares to know. Characteristically, he dedicates the book to both his ex-wife and his present wife, then goes on to present dozens of documents, letters and telegrams that he collected or sent through the years. He even includes his certificate of commission as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps...