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chapter 1: the angel called "the smile of reims" which has to do w/a sculpture...and when the sculpture was destroyed, opinion was divided. an angel, smiling, a saint, not smiling. i take it we are introduced to the four who figure big big in the story. utch, the eye-narrator's wife...severin winter and his wife edith. some background on all. there is some stuff in this chapter that harkens....harkens?...back to irving's other two stories, setting free the bears and well, maybe it was only setting free the bears...severin winter's family, from austria, etc. chapter 2: scouting reports: edith (126-pound class) [winter was a wrestler, coaches wrestling...i guess that is where the "pound" thingies come from.] chapter 3: scouting reports: utch (134-pound class) the last 2 what the title says...character development....and in this one, we get some of what other reviewers talked about...some sort of mutual bedding of each other...this info simply appears...we get the distant past, and the 'present' in these chapters. they are trying to come to terms w/"what" they have...more than just "sex"? severin winter drives...the metaphor applied to him... chapter 4: scouting reports: severin (158-pound class) later on at some point either just before....twould appear...or soon after, the 4 begin to fock each other. i miss the how and the why that happened...maybe w/a look. and bang, there they are. it got to the point where i kept turning to the first page to see whose wife was whose? oh, okay. strange days....they're busy bedding each other, spending glorious amounts of time....but not waking up w/each other....and so on. things like that never continue, do they? no. when it is all said and done, one wonders (eye did) why they bothered. what was the point? i mean, okay, so a marriage is likened to a wrestling match....or sexual congress is likened to a wrestling match. and the point was? was it a call for keeping the marriage bed holy? no, i didn't read it that way. was it a call for redefining marriage? ...ummm, no....i don't think so. was it...is it...a questioning of the marriage vows? perhaps. so...these two couples pair up and wrestle in bed w/the spouse of the other. one guy, the coach, seems to have a problem w/events. i dunno...sure, the world is full of people like this and it is always a hoot to hear about them. so enlightened. so brave. so new. or not. there is nothing new under the sun... ...what was the point? ummm...okay, so the coach had "affairs" even though he and his wife had spent time with another in the marriage bed. so what's that say? that ultimately it comes down to individual choices? and? i dunno...eventually this review will be redefined as a hate crime...and the giraffes at the local zoo will experience new. if they aren't already experiencing that. onward and upward

2022-10-29 03:46