6/26/2023 0 Comments Lucky jim book![]() Dixon doesn’t really behave in any sympathetic way … and yet! You do understand where he’s coming from sometimes, don’t you? His impulses and stray thoughts ring true. Both the physical comedy and also the character-audience relationship. I think the obsession with scrunched-up faces and gestures and weird noises is why Lucky Jim felt so much to me like a 250-page episode of Seinfeld. ![]() Patrick Redford: The corners of his mouth sagged in a wide, blank grimace, as if waylaid by a Scythian trader, framed by the thin snakelike lips of a man who knows he’s done wrong without knowing what it is he’s done wrong. Kelsey McKinney: Her brow scrunched in the middle like a squirrel nibbling on an acorn, her mouth pulled tight like it could rip in the middle, but her eyes were full of laughter.īarry Petchesky: I’m doing my Prussian warlord face. Giri Nathan: Can everyone please describe their present facial expression in the most graphic and gruesome detail possible? Ideally with some reference to animals and/or an obscure colonial slur. ![]() We’ll be down in the comments to chat with you as soon as you’re done reading. Welcome back to Defector Reads A Book! Our May DRAB selection was Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim, which the Defector book sickos have read and discussed. ![]()
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