Argue in favor of:

Posting # 3 Tell Me Something New "In the Shadow of the Strip"

Argue in favor of:

• Shop clerks dressed in stern lines, as in Michael Ventura's "You Saw Me Crying in the Chapel"
  
• What's up with "THE NAME" in "Bowling with the Christ Child" by Dayvid Figler
  

In the short story "You Saw Me Crying in the Chapel", a familiar line pricked my consciousness in the same way Virginia resented the clerk's reception towards her. The store's clerk dressed in stern lines [132] asked her, "is there something you would like to buy?" [133]; it was the attitude of the shop's clerk when she approached the pregnant Virginia, regardless of how the latter looked or dressed. The clerk was rude and lacks the appropriate mission statement. Similarly, such a rude reception was no different from my own shopping experiences in Las Vegas stores. Like Virginia, I want the clerk to let me know what I need to know,and when I need to know it. In the same manner, I totally feel uncomfortable when a store clerk follows me around.

On the other hand, the short story "Bowling with the Christ Child" by Dayvid Figler (even his name sounds funny), got me off with rollicking and hilarious laughter. I really enjoyed reading the stories in: "In the Shadow of the Strip". These stories loosen me up a lot as to Dayvid Figler's story. They were quite a joy-read. I certainly snuggled in with the groove and I felt funny tears running down my cheeks. Consequently, I could relate to what the narrator have illustrated i.e., folks looking like Sean Penn, their blonde or blonde looking spouses, and some mistaken as Viking-Bruhildas' minus the long braids. Toss in silk nails and baseball caps and you get a pass of Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears look-alike. If you want to laugh, read these stories repeatedly, and keep the book! Sequentially, the "Christ Child's Name" is one eponym spoken and breathed out too often. It is a kind of exhilaration that one could pair with folks' first/last names, reverent as an epithet, screamed out loud in jubilation, at birth times, loosing a car/house title at a craps table and etc.. Likewise, most folks will agree that this particular Name could pose as an allegory, as to shock, death, joy, or even orgasm.

"I like words. I use them".

Maritess S. Taylor

College of Southern Nevada