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Salter moves back and forth in time with such ease. Some of the readers here had trouble with his initial leap. But I think most got it and then sped on. Pinpointing POV through this story is an education. He gets away with great leaps through the subtleties of his language. I've found that many, maybe even all, of the stories George gives us to analyze teach me skills, some of which I didn't know before that I needed! I read Salter's book, Dusk, in which this story appears. All were finely done. this is the only one that I didn't find terribly bleak.

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