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Supposedly it's humorous, but frankly, I found it very dark! I think we're supposed to laugh at Mr. Martin's lack of ability to actually commit murder (he's wimpy, nervous, bungling), yet I didn't feel convinced that he couldn't do it.

Maybe I've read too many Russian stories . . .

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or Camus . . . I mean the literature of nihilism and of the absurd, existentialist literature in general . .

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. it gives us reason to believe that at any given moment a person can choose to be other than what his patterns have been, out of the blue. Also, I wasn't convinced that Mr. Martin was necessarily as sane as everyone assumed he was .

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. outwardly rigid behavior is not a guarantee of mental health, not by any stretch. Not to mention, in a frenzy of uncertainty sometimes people do things impulsively as a way to try to escape the pain of anxiety. Sometimes, for instance, a person burdened with the label of "orderly", "good", "obedient", "straight", "square", etc.

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