The Pugilist at Rest :: essays research papers

Judging from the early(a) reviews, the awards, and multiple accolades Thom Joness writings, and "The Pugilist at Rest" in particular, have received, I am appargonntly in quite the minority. But here goes I open an inherent falseness and overwritten emotion doneout the stories. Jones too very much tells the ref what he/she should be feeling instead of letting the reader respond sans prescription. Case in point "I Want to have" The son-in-law is the "good computed axial tomography" (obviously the author -- tacky) who gives the dying woman Schopenhauer to read and narcotising medication to ease the unbearable pain no one else willing even acknowledge. This revitalizes the woman in the extreme (I believe she thanks perfection for her son-in-law at some point, which struck me as the author thanking God for the acknowledgment of himself as he portrayed himself in the story -- again, ooh, tacky). Obviously, Jones digs Schopenhauer and through the character of the woman tells us that philosophy from just the right guy will turn it all around for us as we are dying an excruciating death. Please. This situation probably "actually happened" just this expression in Joness life, but it doesnt mean the recounting of it reveals the truth. I also found technical medical error in the description of the effect of certain(p) drugs on the womans pain. I have to paraphrase re the effect of methadone, something analogous "circles of orange orgasms blossoming through her body." Methadone has a long half life taken orally, as in the story, it would take a long epoch to take effect. Methadone works as a slow manakin toward pain relief -- good relief, but hardly orgasmic -- as strange to an injection of morphine, for which an orgasmic description would have been appropriate.