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| Pin Lady is apricklededee |
What happens when the Balloon Man and the Pin Lady meet? According to the sardonic narrator, they are destined to embrace and it will be a "frightening" scene to behold: "It's in the cards, in the stars, in the entrails of sacred animals."
It's like a twisted meet-cute story where the author is in on the joke but the reader has no idea what the hell is going on.
In The Great Hug, Donald Barthelme returns to the balloon motif but this time, the unconventional, the fantastic and the absurd collide into a madly digressive narrative with no ostensible purpose. It defies interpretation and conveys no message. It's a cacophony of noise and the existential angst that is usually amusing in his stories, comes across as embittered. Or maybe that's the point?
Either way, I didn't care for this story at all.
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