Theme Thursdays - The Gargoyle

Theme Thursdays is a fun weekly event, hosted by Reading between Pages, that will be open from one thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple:

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  Ex: If the theme is KISS; your sentence can have “They kissed so gently” or “Their lips touched each other” or “The smooch was so passionate”

This will give us a wonderful opportunity to explore and understand different writing styles and descriptive approaches adopted by authors.

This week’s theme is

CONVERSATION

 My converstation is one bewteen the Nameless Protagonist and Marianne Engel from The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson.

“Grotesques are what I do,” Marianne Engel answered. “Languages are a hobby.”

“What do you mean you ‘do’ Grotesques?”

“I carve.” She nodded towards the stunted monster in my hand. “I did that.”

“My psychiatrist likes it.”

“Which Shrink?”

“Dr. Hnatiuk.”

“He’s better than most.”

I was slightly surprised. “You know him?”

“I know most of them.”

“Tell me about your carving.”

“I became interested while watching you do it.” Her other hand was now fidgeting with her arrowhead necklace.

“I don’t carve.”

“You did.”

“No, I never have,” I insisted. “Tell me why you like carving.”

“It’s a backwards art. You end up with less than you started with.” She paused. “It’s too bad you can’t remember carving. I still have something you did.”

“What?”

“My Morgengabe.” Marianne Engel looked at me intently, as if waiting for some nonexistent memory to enter my mind. When she saw that none was coming, she shrugged and leaned back into her chair. “Jack’s my manager.”