Excercise 1

         The Mud Below is a dusty, mellifluous abstraction of the phenomena known as bull riding. Author Anne Proulx's work accentuates the gritty eccentricities of that generically backward town. The alternation of slow and fast wording gives the feel of a fast cutting action montage, akin to work of Micheal Bay, and the image of "the back of bull 82N" creates the momentary effect of a macro, close up shot where everything save branding "82N" out of focus. She begins another paragraph with the interjection by Rito of some obviously insightful observation of the bull, though it appears to be gibberish to the uninformed ear. This draws the focus out to encompass the protagonist and his surroundings and the aforementioned cycle begins again.