 vespertine 2005-02-18 . chapter 1 This is...disturbing, in that good flips your mind inside out a little way. Because - well, the subject matter's such a sensitive one, and you handle it so well. I really like the way what's actually happening gradually reveals itself; at the start, the narrator seems as if he's being set up as the good guy, but looking back, that whole "simply being here besmirches white attire" thing seems just so - I hope I'm interpreting things right, 'cause you go for some pretty elaborate language - it's like, he's so completely out of place, and it seems like he's obviously going to be a better person than this money-obsessed guy he's talking to - but then he thinks he's in love with this _child_, and he doesn't even know her name.And yet he's not a totally unsympathetic character, because he really does seem to believe what he's saying. So do I by this point need to tell you how much I liked this story? |