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...dynamic use of dialogue, instead of burying the spoken conversation in description and stream of consciousness. The phrasing is near-perfect. There is hardly a bad sentence in the piece, except, perhaps, the first one ("In the spring of that year time hung over the city in a grey fog"), which is pretentious enough to keep some readers from looking further...
...night last week Florence and her father decided that there was no point in waiting any longer. In a soupy fog, with the tides unfavorable and the waves white-capped, Florence helped smear herself with chill-cutting grease, adjusted her suction-cupped goggles and waded into the black water off Dover. Three hours out, she was a very sick girl. Said father Chadwick: "She was vomiting every third stroke." Pills did not help, but finally one of her trainers spotted the jinx: fumes from a leaky gasoline line of an accompanying motorboat. Florence recovered as soon as the boat drew...
Party Going is shy of plot, even for plot-shy Henry Green. Seven bright young crumbs from the British upper crust set out for a holiday in France; they never get there. A dense fog anchors them to a London terminal-and four hours of each other's clabbering company. The rich and amiable sponsor of the party, Max Adey, wangles hotel rooms to wait in, and they go for each other, hammers & tongues...
...appears in a dressing gown, soon has Max frothing and fumbling. When the pair rejoins the others, Amabel looks "like a cat that has just had its own mouse coming among other cats who had only had the smell." But Amabel's triumph is short. When the fog lifts, the only kitten Max has eyes for is gentle Julia, who sports retractable claws...
Space Travelers. Even if the space travelers survive their first hazards, they will have plenty of other things to worry about. Fog would envelop the cabin after the slightest perspiration on the part of the passengers. Their hair would stand on end, their clothes would balloon away from their bodies, and anything not nailed down would float aimlessly about the ship's interior. The space ship and its passengers would be bombarded by dangerous solar X rays and cosmic rays, would run the risk of colliding with meteorites plunging across the interplanetary course...