Echo's Bones (Narrative)

Can language be more stilted, pretentious, pompous?

A perfect text to hate-read. And the contrast it presents to the famed trilogy, particularly to The Unnamable, is remarkable, leading to an unavoidable question, The same dude wrote both of these?

Those Brits

class = clahss
past = pahst
figure = figga
schedule = sheh-jewl
job = jub
top = tawp
are = ah
together = togethuh
first = fust
been = bean
what = whot
there = thaaai
yehz = years
wuhld = world

LIAR IN CHIEF

Lying on serious matters is a classic sign of moral depravity.

Five minutes ago NPR broadcast that the Washington Post has recently reported President Pinocchio is on the record as having told more than six hundred lies, in public, since his inauguration.