Friday, January 4, 2008

pg. 99 - an intermission

This page suddenly seemed an appropriate place to pause.
Not that anything is wrapped up. Instead, we get this:

"All these violent displacements, this strange light, these shocked and bloodied faces - it was as though we'd all been dislodged somehow, pushed out of the frame, dropped into some kind of empty dimensionless gap like that between film cuts, between acts..." - pg. 99

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Props, pgs. 89, 91, 93, 95, 97 & 99

pg. 89
  • Charley's empty glass
  • Dolph's crumpled beer can
pg. 91
  • Gerald's wife's apron on a hook
pg. 93
  • a cluster of glasses
  • Naomi's found drink
pg. 95
  • Inspector Pardew's fedora "now dented as well as spotted."
  • a mirror
  • crunching glass underfoot
pg. 97
  • Inspector Pardew's white silk scarf
  • the phone (Michelle holding it "at her crotch like a dildo")
  • Iris Draper's spectacles dangling on a gold chain
pg. 99
  • drinks
  • cigarettes
  • crushed napkins
  • dried blood on the surface of things
  • footprints of chalkdust disturbing the crime scene