More Grendely goodness

Grendel is now fully enmired by the dragon's influence, and has killed quite a few of our poor thanes over the course of years. I find it interesting, and, well, disappointed, but not bothered by the fact that I can sense the author at his late night lamp inserting his thoughts via Grendel's observations of others. I sense him asking himself, "I want to throw this in... how might I best tie it to the times?" Poor buffeted Grendel is a lovable character in his battered and confused state, in spite of the evil he does to the poor small hairless humans to whom the earth has been given.

I like how the author inserts time, silence, and waiting into his descriptions of events. It's a good device for invoking introspection on the part of the characters, and at the same time thought on the part of the reader. The mind is an interesting tool, it has time, in the space between one sentence and the next, to re-create, then observe and think on the scene the words have just dictated to it. Occasionally though, my mind needs more time than that small space, and I look around the train car, at the people travelling with me.