Not sure we can make progress on the ugly, but what's obtuse about it?well its ugly and obtuse isnt it
Ten minutes later I got to my feet and walked out into the sun. The wind had died. I saw him standing fifty yards away in the steep field. He was absolutely still. I called to him, he didn't move. I walked that way, asking what was wrong, calling the words out across the immense silence around us, the drop-off into distances. He stood with his knees slightly flexed one foot forward, head down, his hands at belt level, held slightly out from his body. Arrested motion. I saw them right away, lustrous black bees, enormous, maybe a dozen, bobbing in the air around him.
I told him not to worry, they wouldn't sting. I moved in slowly, as much to reassure Tap as to keep the bees from getting riled. Burnished, black-enameled. They rose to eye level, dropped away, humming in the sun. I put my arm around him. I told him it was all right to move. I told him we would move slowly up toward the path. I felt him tense up even more. His way of saying no, of course. He was afraid even to speak. I told him it was safe, they wouldn't sting. They hadn't stung me and I'd walked right through them. All we had to do was move slowly up the slope. They were beautiful, I said. I'd never seen bees this size or color. They gleamed, I told him. They were grand, fantastic?
im feeling lazy. if you cant see it and hear it i dunno what to say.You are avoiding my line of questioning
that was me. an astute observation indeed.I can't remember if it was @linebaugh or someone else, but I was talking to someone a while back and we decided DeLillo was basically a more 'literary' beach read.
best 1s in my view are Americana and Ratner's Star,Nico just finished Underworld, liked it quite a bit but thought the ending bombed. She was doing an audiobook on long drives to the airport.
I loved the prologue but couldn't get too far past the midsection, started to drag a bit. I hear Mao II is where I should go next: a classic, not too long, maybe I get to learn about China?