INCIDENT, AUGUST 1995

David Means is a very detailed and deep writer. He describes things down to the last spec. Every sentence has a specific way of telling his story in a meaningful and interesting way. Means, as said before, is a very detailed writer and below are some examples.

"...abandoned in a sense like Christ on the cross; if there is no God, then this piece of blind bad luck began when he abandoned his BMW and started his trudge with great purpose, and no purpose, into the underside of the road, 9W, a road that usually took him on Friday nights to the city, over the bridge, down the West Side Highway and off at 72nd Street, to a parking garage of cool poured concrete, the thump of his car door, rubber against rubber, sounding particularly sweet echoing in those confines..."

"...not so much for the good reverend, who had little to say and needed only to nod kindly, to put his large fat palm on the leg of this shaking man, whose knees were covered with a polyester tartan blanket normally used for roadside picnics with his wife..."

This story was very hard for me to understand and comprehend. Since I don't enjoy reading, my thoughts tend to stray from the story and I think about something else. This might have been the case or the story was just filled with so much information that it was hard for me to catch on from the very beginning. I understand and know the base of the situation but everything that was happening between the beginning and end was confusing for me to understand.