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| | Review - Rhymes With Useless by Terence Young |
 | | Young’s work, however, calculates the price which the pursuit of calm exacts as his characters adjust to the frailty of the present, a frailty born of ennui, relationship misunderstandings, meaninglessness, even self-loathing. |
 | | In Young’s story “Fast,” Jerry is the husband-father protagonist; upon realizing how many evenings he and his wife have spent visiting couples-with-kids and eating dinner with money managers, he “felt he was slipping away.” His evening-marginalization is compounded by his daytime job, for Jerry repairs photocopy-machines at the local university. |
 | | Young’s characters fulfill their financial duty, working to pay their rent or mortgage, to buy their food and clothe their children; some of his characters also struggle to fulfill their human duty. |
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