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It's a loopy little fantasy, belonging in the same genre as Dunne's classically overworked meditations on the Menendez case in Vanity Fair . (For example: "If Jose did stick needles and tacks into his son's thighs and buttocks, didn't Erik bleed?
They found overworked crews, with engineers, brakemen, and dispatchers turning in 80-hour weeks, working six or seven days in a row.
Overworked language, no doubt, but effective shorthand that communicates how St. Louis has been stripped of its vitality as people and businesses have moved to the suburbs.
No mention of the flabby plot with its contrived deaths, no taking to task for the overworked prose--Ayemenem is just too far away.
On a dairy farm, if the farmer overworked the same bull in breeding cows, the cattle would at length become too inbred.