#369 Orange- Neil Gaiman
“The way a story is told is as important as the story being
told,” Gaiman said in the introduction to this piece. This is written as a
questionnaire, where we only see the respondent’s answers, only to guess at the
questions. It’s subtitled: “Third Subject’s Responses to Investigator’s Written
Questionnaire.”
Jemima Glorfindel Petula Ramsey, a Scottish woman recounts a
kind of absurd story about her sister. Think of the movie “The Mask” with Jim
Carey. He finds a mask that, when worn, brings out your personality traits and
magnifies them to an absurd level. OK, now picture that with a vein teenaged
girl that likes to wear too much fake orange tanning cream.
Unlike the Bill Self Story from a few days ago about the car
manual, this one was both clever, and laugh-out-loud funny. I’m sure there is
satire here about consumerism and vanity, but it’s juts a entertaining story.
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