Reading FRIGHT I find a number of passages seem very desolate
and hopeless. For example, while Preston is on his honeymoon
he deeply laments some recent actions of his. The couple of
very brief chapters that deal with this are quite sparse in
words but very expressive in their desolation. I wonder if
this scene could be taken as good example of what Ross
MacDonald once said as part of a talk he gave in 1954 at the
University of Michigan. He was referring to Poe when he
paraphrased Carlos Williams by saying that Poe was faced with
"...the task of forging a means to express his sensibility,
to objectify and artistically ameliorate the sense of guilt
and horror which he perceived in himself and suffered,
perhaps in poetic anticipation, for his society." Does this
ring at all true in light of the insights we have been given
on this list lately regarding Woolrich as a person and an
author?
Best, Harry
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