Comments on: Train Wreck Girl by Sean Carswell http://www.calebjross.com/other-writers/train-wreck-girl-by-sean-carswell/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: calebjross http://www.calebjross.com/other-writers/train-wreck-girl-by-sean-carswell/comment-page-1/#comment-26 calebjross Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:55:23 +0000 http://calebjross.wordpress.com/?p=242#comment-26 Hard to pull off, definitely, to impose faith in idiot characters and in you, the author, simultaneously. Maybe "dirty savant trope" will show up in the NY Times crosswords someday; 15 Across: another name for strangely intelligent mainstay character at a bar. Hard to pull off, definitely, to impose faith in idiot characters and in you, the author, simultaneously.

Maybe “dirty savant trope” will show up in the NY Times crosswords someday; 15 Across: another name for strangely intelligent mainstay character at a bar.

]]> By: Gordon http://www.calebjross.com/other-writers/train-wreck-girl-by-sean-carswell/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Gordon Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:41:11 +0000 http://calebjross.wordpress.com/?p=242#comment-25 "Dirty savant trope." Nice. It's often as if authors WANT to write lower-class characters, yet are afraid those inherent linguistic limitations will reflect on their own literary abilities somehow, so they have to find some way to still get their verbosity in. But I like the way you say it better. “Dirty savant trope.” Nice. It’s often as if authors WANT to write lower-class characters, yet are afraid those inherent linguistic limitations will reflect on their own literary abilities somehow, so they have to find some way to still get their verbosity in. But I like the way you say it better.

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