The titular piece is ruined by a hamfisted and ghastly bit of materialistic sermonizing. Dreadful. Though the colorful prose and imaginative stories save the rest of it. ( )

Read a lot of his short stories, all different, though sensual, some are the best I ever read. Two of the stories here are very short, leaving little room for character development. The first one is rich in language, mesmerizing. The last is rather factual, more of an anecdote. I like the longer middel one best, melancholic, beauty of language and some character development. ( )