This story was about two drug using
and abusing hospital staff members who spend time together under the influence
of unknown pills stolen from the hospital they both work in. Also the story chronicles
a misadventure of a road trip they take to a fair. The first part of the story
is starts off with the narrator being sober. While sober he seems to depict
Georgie as a crazy person. The initial story line is about a knife wound
patient who is treated by the lowly and high Georgie. This piece uses excellent prose and the dialogue
flows very effectively.
I’m not
sure why the author utilized light font to break up the work but the piece is
broken up into parts using that technique. I thought that aspect of the organization
accomplished very little.
Throughout
the peace the narrator talks about Georgie more than himself. Georgie is
portrayed as somewhat of a burn out and we can derive from that the narrator is
as well because he associates so closely with him.
The way
the author describes everything is so fascinating and keeps me interested as a
reader. He talks about the pills tasting the way urine smells. That imagery is
amazingly thought provoking and disgusting. He also uses very strong verbs to describe
various actions “The talk just dropped off a cliff” that line really makes you
understand how quickly the conversation ended.
The whole story is full of unique lines like this.
Later
on in the story the author discusses the rabbit incident and after finishing the
whole story he admits he might be remembering it wrong. That is so significant
because it shows that to him recollection is not that important or at least the
details aren’t. This could be derived from his drug use or maybe it is a philosophical
axiom he holds on to. What are important, however, are the concepts derived
from the memory. The insignificance of memory and time is again shown in this
line “The bunnies weren’t a problem yet, or they’d already been a problem and
were already forgotten, and there was nothing on my mind.” The time line and
possibly even the truth are not held as the most important aspects of his
memory which is very telling.
One more
concept I found interesting was about the snow covered flowers at the drive in
movie. The author describes the scene using the snow which usually obscures
things as a revealing agent which I found interesting.
The story was an fascinating “a day in the life” piece and I
think the voice was unique and honest which helped keep it interesting and
worthy of reading.
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