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Using the structural device
of contrast - particularly light and darkness- he works with words as a
composer works with tonal patterns, producing in Law and Order a verbal
symphony of distinctive beauty Anna Otten Antioch Review
The wide open windows
vibrate, the thin walls of the room vibrate, the door of the room vibrates
and outside, two steps out into the hall, the door of the elevator cage
vibrates, longer, duller, since it’s heavier. Although perhaps it would
vibrate anyway, without the rumbling of the bus…Perhaps it is still
vibrating from the brusque slamming, scarcely a couple of seconds ago,
that brutal hasty slamming, an instant or so before the bursting into the
room, and the more precise, almost soothing slamming of the door of the
room –a fragile bulwark, a first support to lean against, facing the wide
open window, a first halt, a pause, the few seconds needed to catch one’s
breath.
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