Notes from a Coma by Mike Mccormack

Author:Mike Mccormack [Mccormack, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781616952334
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2013-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

* How did we get this tired? When did this fatigue become so total? If the truth be told there is no drama here. Five men on the flat of their backs, sunk below the gag reflex and pupillary response, struggling to raise a delta wave … there is nothing to tell here.

But it is not so much that there is nothing happening here as that it has all happened before and elsewhere. Here in the realm of the undead things have been speeded up, fast-forwarded to the end. This is where denouements are spliced into the opening reel, plot twists straightened from the off, loose ends cut away in the prologue … This is where bad guys throw up their hands after the opening credits and take what’s coming to them, where adventuresses come with transparent motives and where skeletons are routed from closets in the opening act … This is where love affairs, pallid for the want of sundering and tearful reconciliation, have cut straight to the inevitable disappointments and recriminations, where sex is wound on to postcoital depression, where killers never get into their serial stride because the first corpse, no matter how battered and seemingly senseless, always manages to hold on to incriminating forensic matter, where appellants skip over mandatory setbacks in lower courts to ringing exculpatory verdicts in courts of appeal, where civic-minded explosions ring in prior warnings and coordinates to the authorities and emergency services, where car chases are paraphrased into the moment of collision with paramedics and metal workers already on standby and where, in spite of the digital meter counting down the days in the top right-hand corner of our screens, our dramatis personae, our action heroes, stay terminally locked in first positions.

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