Papers of Janice Daugharty, MS-22
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| ID | Title | Characters | Setting | Brief Review (Events) | Number of pages or number of words | Additional information | Box # | Folder # | Date written |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 182 | An Imposing Presence aka Candy Block aka An Extra aka Moon by Day | June
Bug Candy Miss Ada Mama |
South East Georgia | An
imposing presence is a novel about the making of a movie in South East
Georgia the filming social impact on a rural community is An Imposing
Presence is not only imposing as in awe inspiring but also an
imposition. Lives, in general are altered, some permanently,
particularly the major character Candy and June Bug Booie. Of course my
characters are primarily illiterate, basically, ignorant, and Candy
possesses a combined quality of comedy an pathos which lends to a
humorous and pathetic attempt at stardom as an extra on the set. She is
a creature of extreme vanity at transitional age of thirty; she a
lackadaisical, ner-do-well with an uncanny knack for making her life
unbearable. However, she with a history of insecurity from being
deracinated from foster home to foster home, clings to June Bug, relies
upon him, despite his beatings and cruel rituals at Dead River where she
is forced to endure repeated ritualistic episodes of snake observing
which is one of her many phobias. She is a plebeian with a penchant for
presages, a monomania for the bright lights and the spectacular in
contrast to the dun drabness of her present existence. He is ruthless and maniacal, a coon trapper, a bigot-typical and as Candy says, "he never buys gas." The narrator implies that he is a thief by profession, but his means of livelihood are left to the imagination. And their sociological, psychological, and physiological makeup's to show the "how's" and "why's" of their behaviors. |
354 | An Imposing Presence - Candy Block-revisions | 16 | 1 | 1986 revised 1988 |