Very fun book that actually has a family connection for me that I wasn’t aware of until I cracked the spine. Recommend it.
Lots of great meditative American writing on sports for us to read over the course of America’s 250th:
• Updike (Rabbit series and Golf Dreams)
• DFW (Infinite Jest and String Theory)
• Don DeLillo (Underworld)
• Richard Ford (The Sportswriter)
And lots of stray scenes in many others (golf courses and caddies in Faulkner’s and Walker Percy’s South; fishing and hunting, if they count, in Hemingway’s Nick Adams stories).
I woke up at 3 am to finish Great Expectations the last morning of exams because I’d promised my (St. John’s grad) English teacher I’d finish it before Christmas break. Thought it was absolutely wretched at 16 but loved it upon re-reading at 39.
Teachers do lead the way and influence their students more than they know.
@RolandGunnTN I ruined one of these as a summer associate when a leftover beer keg sprayed beer all over the trunk and I neglected to clean it out in a timely manner.
Such a fun car to drive around in.
In Italy, small irrelevant cities or isolated villages in the middle of nowhere will have a church that mogs every church in the majority of countries on earth
Strange: I am older, yet there seems to be more time, time for watching and waiting and thinking and working. All any man needs is time and desire and the sense of his own sovereignty. As Kingfish Huey Long used to say: every man a king. I am a poor man but a kingly one. If you want and wait and work, you can have.
—Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins