She’s probably married-divorced twice.” When they get to her house, guy gets out, knocks, waits, breaks in. ![]() Guy wants to go to his old girlfriend’s house in one of the housing projects in this little college town, but when Lou suggests he call first, his fare says, “Man, I don’t even know her number been so long. (At one point, he addresses a hypothetical fare: “Buddy, can you spare one of those second-novel pills? Just drop it on the floorboard and I’ll find it.”) As the novel begins, he picks up somebody who just got out of Parchman, Mississippi’s hell-on-earth prison. He has published one novel and is thinking about writing another in a way that suggests he never will. Let’s hop on our skateboard and trail after Lou as he begins his first day. It’s more like the center has been run over so many times that it’s just a stain on the county road that nobody uses any more ever since they built that highway. ![]() Decentralized, atomized, and alternately tranquilized and jacked up on cheap beer and meth, this is the world of Beckett, Godard, Robbe-Grillet. Whereas Chaucer’s pilgrims mounted up and rode as a group from London to Canterbury, telling tales as they go, Lou the cabbie’s fares are loners who bounce from trailer to hospital to dead-end job, and it is Lou who tells their tales. ![]() The Last Taxi Driver is a Canterbury Tales for our time, meaning that the people in it move the way we do.
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