Challenge 326

A Scandalous Abundance

1. In Bertrand Cayzac’s “Floozman Saves a Technician”:

   1. What lesson does Floozman learn about the worth of work?
   2. Who warns that Gabriel might come unglued at the end?

2. In Alan Delaney’s “Awakening”:

   1. Is the story more effective for leaving the main character unnamed?
   2. Why does the actor in the story leap into the unknown rather than move toward the voices he hears?
   3. Cite two ways in which this story resembles Bertrand Cayzac’s “Floozman Saves a Technician.”

3. In Walter Giersbach’s “The Iceberg”:

   1. What do you think of the way in which the boy’s teacher and father react to the results of the boy’s dreams?
   2. In what way is the boy a kind of miniature Floozman? In what way is he not?

Responses welcome!

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