Pulp Fiction, 1939 · page 53 of 116
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# Analysis of Page This is a **story prose page** (page 51) from a pulp magazine, featuring the beginning of "Fatal Effigy" by Benton Greer. The page includes a dramatic illustration of a uniformed figure at the top and an introductory epigraph. The visible text introduces two business partners in a dental supplies firm—Mr. Jennings and Mr. Brickley—with contrasting personalities. The opening suggests a crime story, hinting that one partner intends to silence the other permanently, though their encounter shown here appears mundane. The narrative establishes that Brickley is short and rotund while Jennings is meek and mild-mannered.
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By Benton Greer They were partners in business. But the important business d to one partner was the silencing of the other—permanently. b Yet silence has a way of thundering out loud—with a two- thousand year old echo. R. BRICKLEY walked into M the office of Mr. Jennings. If there is any foundation for the adage that successful business partnerships are built upon contrast the firm of Jennings & Brickley, dental supplies, should be flourishing, even in these times. Oliver Jennings knew the dental supply business from the roots up and Bert Brickley knew how to get customers. | Mr. Brickley, short and rotund, and garbed in an eye-catching gray mix- ture, entered by the corridor door. The partners maintained separate offices in the same suite and there was a con- necting door between the two offices, but Brickley had misplaced the key. He undoubtedly could find it if he put his mind to the task, but such minor details annoyed him. Jennings, crossing towards the filing cabinets with papers in hand, looked up over his spectacles. He, too, was short; about the same height as Brick- ley, but not nearly so plump. He was mild, meek, a typical business drudge with pale eyes and thinning gray hair. “Did you want something Bert?’ “No, nothing particular,’’ answered Gomichbooksrecom