Straw dogs
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from the crit:
"Gray mainly uses the words of others to paint a portrait Hieronymus Bosch would smile at."
"There really is not much new that has been added here, only old matter condensed into an easily accessible, easily read and easily regurgitated form."
"Gray is doing a great service in providing a Cliff Notes version of modern thought."
From interviews we find that Gray intended to ‘write (Straw Dogs) in a way that would be accessible to the average reader.’ This he achieves with astounding success. Whether Gray is unconsciously proposing a neo-anarchist philosophy, a brand-new-secondhand version of Stoicism, or if in complete awareness he is about to don steel-spiked wristbands and snap slack-jawed balcony dwellers out of their middle aged malaise is all very hard to say"
written so that mr. donal could get it :P