![]() ![]() ![]() Or was she looking through me?" (Nah, she was probably just looking at you, mate.) Sometimes the italics seem forlornly to be trying to elevate a sentence from a kind of bland incompetence to a more baroque awfulness: " That was women for you – always morphing." (Here Scott has not encountered an actual morphing woman, like the one in the film Species who turns into an alien, but just a woman who has changed her mind.) Yet, I felt something else" (spoiler: it was another pocket.) He describes a woman "staring down at me. "I checked the inside pocket," he relates at one point. ![]() He is addicted to italics, which festoon the pages, straining to turn ordinary words into jolts of surprise and excitement. And for a once-successful magazine journalist, he's an alarmingly bad writer. On the basis of a single anonymous phone call he had once – on live TV – more or less accused Cordova of being a child-murderer, and was then surprised to find his life falling apart and the work drying up. I say "hero", but Scott is plainly a bit of an idiot. ![]()
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