I could just drift, he thought, and sleep and put a bight of line around my toe to wake me. But today is eighty-five days and I should fish the day well. -The Old Man and the Sea
“Both study in the spiritual picaresque, the joinery that for the young is all one way, from holy innocence to such knowledge as the world offers, from the reality which illusion demands and thinks it sees to the illusion which reality insists, at the point of madness, we settle for.
- John Aldridge on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the The Catcher in the Rye
Sitting atop a water tower with the sun and the moon and the mountains is my kind of end to an evening.
