What makes us human? What makes us different? In the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov's 'Pale Fire,' Eric Norris looks at life as a corrupted text, with the greatest meaning lingering just at the margins of error. 'Terence' tells the story of a bewildered boxer's love for a beautiful young man he meets at the gym, complicated by the untimely appearance of a cow.
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By Andrew Howdle
Feb 21, 2011
"Terence" is exuberantly written, a piece of surreal non-sense in the fullest sense of that word. It is wonderfully Sternian, a shaggy dog story full of invention. Indeed, it could be a section from a Modernist "Tristram Shandy". Not mainstream, but it is often the smaller tributaries that hold wonders and ripple the memory.
