Carver (Beginners, 6):
Herb stopped talking. “Here,” he said, “let’s drink this gin. Let’s drink it up. Then we’re going to dinner, right? Terri and I know a place. It’s a new place. That’s where we’ll go, this new place we know about. We’ll go when we finish this gin.”
“It’s called the Library,” Terri said.
Lish (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 6):
Mel stopped talking. “Here,” he said, “let’s drink this cheapo gin the hell up. Then we’re going to dinner, right? Terri and I know a new place. That’s where we’ll go, this new place we know about. But we’re not going until we finish up this cut-rate, lousy gin.”
Terri said, “We haven’t actually eaten there yet.”
Discussion (Please respond in the comments section of the Home Page)
While reading and listening to these two segments, it is important to ask: What is important to the writer/editor in each of these segments? Does Lish stress something more through his lexical changes and vocabulary choices?
