I’m afraid I’ve been too busy lately to puzzle out any sort of decent post. So, until I can get it together, I thought I’d share a nice quote that I read last night in Saul Bellow’s novel Humboldt’s Gift. For a moment after I read it, I was sure he was describing the blogosphere, but then I remembered that he published the book 33 years ago.
“America is a didactic country whose people always offer their personal experiences as a helpful lesson to the rest, hoping to hearten them and to do them good—an intensive sort of public-relations project. There are times when I see this as idealism. There are other times when it looks to me like pure delirium. With everyone sold on the good how does all the evil get done?”
2 responses so far ↓
headbang8 // June 25, 2008 at 3:23 pm |
Can’t puzzle out a decent post? Your fans are heartbroken–or, at least, this one is.
I’m sure you can put your thinking cap on.
thefishhusband // June 25, 2008 at 7:52 pm |
Herr headbang, you’ve got me blushing all over the place. Thanks for the nice words.
Coincidentally, I missed your musings over at Deutschland über Elvis during that nice little break you had between mid-April and early June, but I was too shy to tell you. In any event, I’m glad to see you’re back in action. I will be too, just as soon as I finish the current job I’ve been doing. See, if I write too much, I end up having nothing to speak about, and then my friends and family find me boring….