The second part of Bernard Cooper's novel is great. I liked the second part of his work better than the first, or at least the story I picked out to understand. "Saturday Night", starting on page 87 was one of my favorite stories. The imagery just blows me away. The entire story is a double shadow of something else that is going on.
Format wise, the piece is mostly made up of questions. Which allows you to keep answering the questions that he presents. The theme is a tad confusing but after reading it a couple of times it starts to make sense. It's a timeline, just like the remainder of the story. It's as if there is a couple looking into the future picturing what its going to be like.
"Over a cover of cold cloud, bearing bouquets, bottles of wis, decks of cards and dominoes, a sparse arc of punctual people migrate behind the horizon. While aloft like a league of ghosts or gods, does their vision slip through thick ceilings? Can they watch us mimic their kisses, embrace our own backs, burrow hands beneath out bedclothes? Spying their children aglow on earth with a meager heat, do flying parents cry like geese?
The comparison between the theme and other relatable images is almost transparent. It creates the scene that something else is going on but you're too stuck on reading just the words alone he states. It's beautiful. The work is outstanding and creates more of a story in a shorter amount of time then most people could ever write themselves.
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