Monday, March 4, 2024

Jonathan Coe - The Dwarves of Death # 6 The Smiths

 

'Did you see the jealousy in the eyes of the ones who had to stay behind...'

Catalogue of William's sorry Love Life up to this point. Pretty much the sorry trail of misbegotten failure we all experience in our early twenties. William's reaction to tejection is the characteristic mercenary, opportunust one that hormones and weak character and principle drives us towards at that age too.

We get the back story of The Dwarves of Death. The forgotten Punk band featuring an actual pair of murderous dwarves  that come to dominate and dictate the narrative from this point on. Meanwhile The Smith's and their tales of wastrel drudgery play on in the background.



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