thread: 2010-08-23 : The Drifter's Escape is Amazing
On 2010-08-27, Tim Koppang wrote:
The one about the woman is easily my favorite, by far. And I've read them all—some twice.
The one about the woman is great for two main reasons. First, by the end of the story, you have a heartbreaking sense of loss, felt empathetically, for the woman. As a reader, I knew exactly how someone might become a drifter.
Second, the Bible quote about losing a sense of the land, and the isolation that it brings is pitch perfect. Fucking great. I went and did a comparison of that passage in four or five different Bible translations after I finished that story. I think it taken slightly out of context for the sake of the story, but it works. It's a great quote that really hit home for me on a large scale. The woman then brought me back down to the human scale.
