>>7302312The most difficult chapters are when gang members are doing coke or freebasing and then going on Grand Theft Auto missions. They are stream of consciousness Jamaican slang with no paragraph structure, one or two in stanza, but they are not common. The Chapters from an undeducated Jamaicans point of view are more common (the novel is written from character point of view Game of Thrones style). I found myself reading in a
bad jamaican accent for these. Americans and Brits speak in first person in regular prose.
Example:
>Under the gully you just never know how the stink can drive a man mad. How he can think crazy shit and wicked shit and nasty shit, kill a baby shit or fuck a little girl shit or shit in church shit because the stink so stink all you can think is that the stink must be easing into you like water through a strainer and now you must be stink too. And I just want to wash it off, I just want to wash the whole thing off but the water running through the gully stink too. No. Now I have to think straight. I have to think like a thinking man. I have to get out of Kingston. I have to go. I have to go somewhere, somewhere people never talk about, somewhere like Hanover, who the r’asscloth know what going on in Hanover? Hanover so far from the rest of Jamaica that I can bet they don’t even vote in no election. Go to Hanover and take a name like Everton or Courtney or Fitzharold, a name that sound like both mother and father raise me. I hear the horse hoofs again and get up and run. I run in the same direction that the madwoman run me must be mad too hearing horse hoof like me is some naked runaway slave with the mass hot on me trail while me go to the land of Maroons.