. The boys take an interest in an out-of-order carousel at the carnival, and accidentally witness the carousel subtracting years from its passenger, 1 for every spin around. The man steps off a 12 year old boy and heads out for mischief.
The boys follow the man/boy (Mr. Cooger) around then back to the carousel, where he rides it in reverse adding his years back. Will hits a lever and the carousel spins out of control, and Mr. Cooger barely survives. Mr. Dark, the carnival proprietor also known as the Illustrated Man, begins to chase the boys down, attempting to corner them with every boy’s wish to be grown. The boys mistrust Mr. Dark, witness an old lady from the neighborhood transformed into a little girl and crying about her misfortune, and begin working against the Illustrated Man. They get Will’s father, a philosophical janitor at the local library and a mystery himself, to help.
It’s a good story, told with unmistakable style, but the style imposes somewhat. I spent most of the read thinking about the book in the 3+ to 4 range, as the eccentric flourish of the telling occasionally pulled me back a bit.
Then I reached the final few chapters of the book, where my perception shifted in a big way. The style began working in itself, feeding off itself, and the last 10% was a dead sprint to the finish line with the father, Charles Halloway (this is me, this is you) taking center stage in a battle to save his son, his son’s friend, himself and everyone in the world who wants to be saved. An ending such as this requires the stylistic language, because you have to speak this way to get across as much of the emotional and human issues being confronted as is possible. Words don’t quite suffice; you need the underpinnings. You need to see and be able to read the space between them, what the book has prepared you for, and doing so delivers an unforgettable end.
This is a special, magical work about boyhood and adulthood, how they are in many ways the same, and how concepts like right and wrong can be so badly manipulated. In many ways it’s also about what I like to call ‘the space between the strings.’ The days of our lives that exist between events. It can be somewhat of a challenge if you’re not used to the style, but you’ll get it if you stick with it, and you just might love it.
What an amazing, pleasant surprise.
Dragons are just a part of growing up
My old school has Giant Relay Day at the end of every year. Classes are over the day before, so it's sort of an optional day with activities and a picnic and a band, and at the end of it all you have the Giant Relay race. Each grade races alone, starting with sixth and moving up through faculty and alumni. Instead of just running and passing a baton (really, how tedious!), for the first leg of the relay the person walks on stilts (almost everybody blew it); then he slaps the hands of the next people, who do a wheelbarrow, then the next people do a three-legged hobble, then the next person has to run ten yards while blowing up a balloon and then pop it before he can slap the hand of the next racer. About ten more ridiculous things happen, then the last six people have to form a human pyramid and hold it. Needless to say, much hoo-ha ensues. I sat in the bleachers above the field with the Nut and a bunch of parents and students realizing that I was actually watching the Giant Relay for the first time. When I was a student I always just skipped the whole day, school was over so I just fucked off. And Lance, the alumni organizer, had asked me not ten minutes earlier if I'd race on the alumni team and I said NO because I thought I'd just have to run, I didn't know I'd get to do something anxiety-inducing like fill a bucket by carrying water in a spoon.
Anyway, some kids were sitting in front of me signing each others' yearbooks, and I noticed that one girl was drawing an intricate Boris Vallejo-type dragon for one of her friends. When she finished, another kid came by and she started on another dragon for her. She was drawing quite well and she was totally into it, with her little flourishes and such, but I couldn't help thinking, Aren't dragons kind of passe? Like, aren't they so seventies? But then I realized that dragons are just part of growing up, like reading science fiction, smoking Shermans, throwing toast at Rocky Horror, and writing essays for English with references to Harold and Maude. Or whatever it is you did that made you feel smart and cool.Which Disney Prince should you hook up with?
I was hoping for Aladdin, he's pretty cute but I got Prince Eric.
You got: Prince Eric
Hell yeah you're going to make him part of your world (or at least your bed).
I'm still down. I could also be down for a romp with Gaston but he wasn't an option.Welcome to Lorentedford.com – About Loren and her adventures come join us today and please feel free to visit my many projects.. You never know where life may take you!
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