![]() ![]() ![]() That mute girl would come rushing out of her hole for the hundredth time and I’d shoot her dead. ![]() “‘I would go out of my mind with boredom. ![]() Didn’t it seem pleasant in there? Lighting the lamps? The smell of all the brand-new goods?’īut Charlie isn’t having any of that. “‘I believe I could settle into a life like that. Readers know this because, after they go shopping for new clothes (see, there’s something for every reader in this tale), Eli muses with Charlie about the possibility of retirement. I pay my bills on time and relocate earthworms stranded on the sidewalk in a heavy rain, but somehow Patrick deWitt has got me hooked on Eli, hired killer in arrears for dental work, in four scenes.Ĭould be because Eli is questioning his lifestyle (and that must have been in progress before we were introduced, before that whole mess with the tooth mending). They? Eli and Charlie, the Sisters brothers.Īnd in only a few pages they have taken my moral compass and given it a good spin. So I’m chatting about this book, about the scene with the ‘dentist’, and I announce that I agree that it’s unfair that he doesn’t get paid for his ‘services’, but dismiss it quickly by saying that at least they didn’t kill him. ![]()
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