Tarantino wields words like blunt objects

. . . but in a good way:

[I]t's these sorts of big stakes gambles that everybody, including me, has thus far doubted Harper's ability to win — and been consistently proven wrong. That sound you heard today? (you mean the grinding screech as the CPC slid from the moral high ground? no, the other one, the thud) That was the sound of Harper pulling it out and laying it on the table.

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