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Re: Petticoat Lane By Matt Spencer
Posted: December 21, 2012, 09:18:03 PM
by Lester Curtis
Lyrical prose! Odd, how well it works with the grisly subject matter. And I can't figure out if the merchant is a good guy or a bad guy. Either way, he's not someone you'd be well off to trifle with.
Thought-provoking tale. What does one do with certain kinds of power? The merchant is undeniably coercive, and speaks in ambitious terms, yet he has -- cleaned up the streets, in a way.
Re: Petticoat Lane By Matt Spencer
Posted: December 22, 2012, 12:11:45 AM
by Robert_Moriyama
Lester Curtis wrote:Lyrical prose! Odd, how well it works with the grisly subject matter. And I can't figure out if the merchant is a good guy or a bad guy. Either way, he's not someone you'd be well off to trifle with.
Thought-provoking tale. What does one do with certain kinds of power? The merchant is undeniably coercive, and speaks in ambitious terms, yet he has -- cleaned up the streets, in a way.
Interesting that the only survivor from the street gang (and that with the merchant's intervention) was the boy worried about his younger siblings... The merchant let greed and general thuggishness take its course with the others. Of course we do not know what tasks he may set for Cole in the future -- he may be revealed as truly evil. (Petticoat Lane is, I think, part of or related to a novel Mr. Spencer is working on (or he may have finished it by now).)