Certainly the theme of thwarted or misdirected love is common in literature, but Judge Cool's theory of the progression of love strongly resembles that espoused by the old man in Carson McCullers' short story "A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud." Verena Talbo also seems closely related to the emotionally starved and physically unattractive grotesques in McCullers's novels, especially Miss Amanda in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1951; see separate entry). Also, the satire as.....
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