6/5/2023 0 Comments The four fingers of death![]() ![]() The colonel’s arm is separated in the wreckage, four fingers and all, and begins its lonely crawl across the Southwestern desert. Not only a smile because there’s no longer a problem, but also a smile because the person smiling somehow knows more about the situation than you do it makes her happy not to require recognition of her kindness, because she actually cares about you and doesn’t care about her own glory it’s a generous smile, a confident smile, a happy smile but also a smile with a gradient that indicates there’s not much left to smile about these days we do the best we can. The mission is aborted on its reentry to Earth’s atmosphere. ![]() “Some people just have that smile, the one with many constituent hues. In it, Steve is eased through the revelation that he is mistaken and bypasses embarrassment by the warmth of a smile. The below samples is a diamond quote within a sci-fi novel about a team of astronauts’ journey to Mars and the unfortuitous discovery they transport back to Earth. A good story is just a vehicle to these moments I find most fulfilling. It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22. ![]() Rather, an author’s ability to summarize a moment in life previously unaddressed in words keep my attention. The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. It’s not a book’s place on the New York Time’s best sellers list. What motivates me to read is not necessarily the arc of a great story. ![]()
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