The Ice Storm
“Just briefly, for thematic reasons. Happily there’s no need to concern ourselves with this mind as it has expressed itself directly—because it hasn’t, really. Therefore this story can be content with indirect examples, with metaphor and with evidence from nature. For example: Benjamin Hood, who was on Saturday morning asleep on the floor of the Halfords’ bathroom, had a dream—an uncomfortable dream in the midst of a grueling hangover. Dreams retold are a burden, so this will be brief. In Hood’s... dream, a special tax had been levied against him because of fruit-bearing trees growing in his yard on Valley Road. He learned of this tax while taking a drive with Jim Williams (in a station wagon with simulated wood paneling, though Williams actually drove a Cadillac). Hood was trying to explain the presence of government inspectors in his yard, those inspectors in white, lead-lined suits, measuring the size and yield of his plum trees and then blowtorching them.
—The thing I can’t figure out, he told Jim Williams, is whether this is happening in 1973 or in 1991.MoreLess
—The thing I can’t figure out, he told Jim Williams, is whether this is happening in 1973 or in 1991.MoreLess
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