Sat
07
Aug '10
Fri
06
Aug '10
“ Still he is always an impressive figure at banquets such as this - an immortal sports writers called him, and that is how they have written about him and others like him, rarely suggesting that such heroes might ever be prone to the ills of mortal men, carousing, drinking, scheming; to suggest this would destroy the myth, would disillusion small boys, would infuriate rich men who own ball clubs and to whom baseball is a business dedicated to profit and in pursuit of which they trade mediocre players’ flesh as casually as boys trade players’ pictures on bubble-gum cards.
“ Over it all the enormous gas ruin of the sun among the smokestacks, the barrage balloons, power lines and chimneys brown as aging indoor wood, brown growing deeper, approaching black through an instant— perhaps the true turn of the sunset —that is wine to you, wine and comfort. (Gravity’s Rainbow)
Thu
05
Aug '10
Wed
04
Aug '10
“ The coincidence seemed to be just that: a strange, puzzling, but unintentional juxtaposition, one of life’s sublime jokes.
Tue
03
Aug '10
Thu
29
Jul '10
Wed
28
Jul '10
“ He finds me, because that’s what Mister Rogers does—he looks, and then he finds.
