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...understand why the author of Walter Miller's Home Page wishes to remain anonymous. Take the embarrassing case of the terminally ill fan in the Midwest who laughed himself to death last month. The man's last gasp, supposedly, was, "Here's the part that kills me... " (The E-mail I got looks believable.) Then there's the preservation of privacy. Already, waltermiller@prodigy.com gets dozens of E-mail messages a day, many of them mash notes mixed in with offers of help from social-service workers--all directed, I should point out, at a fictional character. Finally...
...plays in limos or on Rollerblades, in bright summer colors or basic Beckett black. Inside, they toted books by or about the master. When the curtain rose, their attention was votive; they laughed and sighed and never dared cough. The dangling melodramatic ending of one play elicited a collective gasp, like that of a child hearing a ghost story's tantalizing punch line. At the curtain calls their faces beamed at the actors with rapture and gratitude. In the lobby afterward they bought T shirts reading GATE THEATRE--BECKETT FESTIVAL...
...funny thing about Dammers is that he is knowledgeable about the occult--and also pretty strange himself! That means he hides behind doors a lot and, for no discernible reason, cannot stand when women yell at him. Ultimately, we find out he has scars all over his chest and (gasp!) perhaps might not be as good-hearted as we thought...
...have parents who are, as they say, dysfunctional--in this case, needy, infantile, self-indulgent, narcissistic, ruthlessly selfish hysterics who use up all the oxygen in the room and then gasp self-pityingly that they are having trouble breathing--is a maturing burden for a child, and a sad kind of discipline...
...another heart-wrenching image, a man, distraught at the loss of his cable, looks around only to find--gasp, gasp--a book...