Word: theroux
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...revenge to bicycle all the way out to Yorkshire and perform a rather gruesome act of retribution. Mary is one of the few characters who makes no compromises, never sacrifices her principles, and she is perhaps the only one who is liked and admired by Savage, and by Theroux...
...most part, Theroux seems to share the attitudes he describes in a character in "The Man on the Clapham Omnibus," a member of the peerage who inherited along with his title debts which have made him poor and bitter...
...THEROUX IS a clever and adopt writer, he puts a lot of funny lines into Savage's mouth. He remarks that Scaduto's wife "was one of those people who can say. "I just wrote a poem,' and make it round like, 'I just flushed the canary down the toilet'--like the maddest, most irrational act on earth." Of the English, he observes that they...
...becomes a little tiresome, and so it is a relief to read "Fury," which is the best and most surprising story in the book. It is one from which Savage is absent until the very end, appearing as the narrator with a contrived-seeming entrance that makes us think Theroux wrote the story and then haphazardly adapted it to fit into the formula of the book...
...Theroux is revealing something telling about his own view of things. At the end of The London Embassy, Savage marries the beautiful woman he has lusted after through the final three stories, and we are disappointed; we feel that he really doesn't deserve to end up happy. Like his main character, though, Theroux doesn't really care about us or anyone else, as long as things work out the way he wants them...