The fight scene gave a sense of the detached clinical alertness that adrenaline can give you — you know what I mean? Sometimes action is written with emotion poured into everything, but if I were attacked completely out of the blue, I might go numb while focusing entirely on what was going on and how to survive, feeling a few simple emotions that facilitate that but the prose keeps to the events.
And it was a great characterization moment to have Irving's anger really spill out over the ruined Bible. Like that’s something a person would know how to be angry about in the moment, and communicate that anger. But someone suddenly trying to kill you would be total confusion, like? Anger but it'd be hard to instantly feel the proportional amount of anger towards the egregiousness of the act.
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PermianExtinction on Chapter 2 Sat 13 Oct 2018 11:34PM UTC
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