Word: coma
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...Progress is over." Rather than spreading his doctrine with letter bombs and threats of destruction, he might instead have devised a quirky, culture-savvy, pink-jacketed novel about the end of the world. He might very well have penned something like Douglas Coupland's latest novel, Girlfriend in a Coma...
Richard goes on to describe how his girl-friend Karen lapsed into a coma in the middle of senior year, after experiencing eerie premonitions of the future and then ODing on alcohol and diet pills, only one day after the pair "deflowered each other atop Grouse Mountain, among the cedars beside a ski slope." Nine months later, their child Megan is born, but Karen remains comatose for the next seventeen years...
...fire on the sloping neighborhoods burns like a million Bic lighters held up in the dark at some vast, cosmic Fleetwood Mac concert." Yet often his quirky comparisons go one step too far and cross over the line between the clever and the ridiculous. After Karen falls into a coma, Richard reminisces about how the remains of high school "flowed by like a wide, slow, pulsing river of cool chocolate milk." All this absurdity is tolerable, even amusing, so long as it doesn't also strive to be deep...
...appearances, he is not. And that is the real tragedy in Girlfriend in a Coma. Coupland's writing style is fresh and funny, but he is clearly at his best when he's playing the witty cynic, not the platitude-dribbling prophet. Advice for the future: leave the crusading to the Unabomber...
Puopolo arrived in the New England Medical Center emergency room just two minutes after the altercation, but he never regained consciousness and he died in the hospital after a 31-day coma...