Here is a typical line from
THE HUCKSTERS, our current Doomed Book Club selection: "'Vic,' she repeated, marveling at this stranger who seemed to know all her thoughts." You recall how
everyone is marveling at Vic all the time. But here is how Vic talks on a date: "The sea is a fighter... It must hate the land with some baffled hysterical hate." That's Vic on a date!