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Exactly. It was fresh and cool in White Jazz, which had the benefit of being much shorter and more thoroughly being in the mind/voice of the protagonist, who was at wit's end and probably thinking in that sort of syntax.
Was happy to see it gone with Pefidia, but he also took out a plot and interesting characters too, so
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Exactly. It was fresh and cool in White Jazz, which had the benefit of being much shorter and more thoroughly being in the mind/voice of the protagonist, who was at wit's end and probably thinking in that sort of syntax.
Was happy to see it gone with Pefidia, but he also took out a plot and interesting characters too, so
Felt like Perfida turned Dudley from a crooked cop into a Dr No level supervillain.
I'm strugling my way through This Storm, mostly out of a sense of duty, I think, and Dudley in this is just...... ridiculous.