Masques for the Fields of TimeTaylor¿s fourth collection offers a combination of the realistic and the . . .Skewed, that word must best describe the characters, situations, and timeframes in this collection, A Masque for the Fields of Time. Take the opening story, where a dance seems to be happening during the narrator¿s youth, since his baby-sitter is busily flirting on the dance floor with another teenager. But then time skews and the dance is happening -- when? And those puppets in the rafters, seemingly pulling strings on all the dancers -- just what are they doing? Well, maybe the collection¿s last story will clear things up . . . or does it only skew matters further, for this story¿s protagonist is swimming, yes swimming, on a mission to obtain headstones -- now irritatingly called ¿grave markers,¿ the narrator complains. Okay then, in another story we at least have the comfort of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus confronting Simone de Beauvoir -- but then why do tiny voices haunt the professed atheistic trio with religious barbs? With humor both grim and playful, all the stories in this collection explore the twists human perception can take. |
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Down on the Dance Floor | 1 |
Coriolus | 10 |
The Soft Queen of Dissolution | 25 |
Copyright | |
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