This has just blown me away. The themes of being alone, of pushing others away, of not giving an inch because it's something someone else needs are all woven together like the parts in a piece of music.
You always get the details right, and I love how richly detailed this is without ever getting bogged down. House's fear of falling, the details of the shower as opposed to the bath, and the slow destruction of his relationship with Stacy are just pitch-perfect.
Crandall is wonderful in this. It's a very thoughtful look at how he and Greg came to be in what Crandall thought of as a friendship. And there's a world of insight into how House regards relationships in this line: All they’d ever had was nothing more than an improvisation, held together only by the loose interpretation of a melody. House had never expected it to last. Crandall never expected it to end.
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Date: 2007-08-25 10:26 pm (UTC)You always get the details right, and I love how richly detailed this is without ever getting bogged down. House's fear of falling, the details of the shower as opposed to the bath, and the slow destruction of his relationship with Stacy are just pitch-perfect.
Crandall is wonderful in this. It's a very thoughtful look at how he and Greg came to be in what Crandall thought of as a friendship. And there's a world of insight into how House regards relationships in this line: All they’d ever had was nothing more than an improvisation, held together only by the loose interpretation of a melody. House had never expected it to last. Crandall never expected it to end.