Art Garfunkle brought me a line from “Waters of March” (Jobim). It conjured an image now preserved in an enduring memory of a particular place and time. Early one sultry summer morning, some fifty years ago in up-state Mississippi, a young man with a back-pack climbed down from a Greyhound Scenicruiser. . . There’s noContinue reading “Following Procedure”
Monthly Archives: Nov 2020
A Sense of Decency
“It’s no good just being a decent fellow; you’ve got to sell yourself in this world”. So said the careers master somewhere back in the mid sixties. Understandable, I suppose, but it didn’t go down well. Doesn’t exactly denigrate but puts things in their place. A hierarchy was established and ever since I’ve lived withContinue reading “A Sense of Decency”
Compulsory Games
Apparently the latest iteration of “Monopoly” has gone cashless. This has prompted a view that the more visceral pleasure of relieving opponents of large wads of notes will now be lost. Quite possibly true but, however played, this is just a passing schadenfreude if the defeat is sufficient to remove the remaining players. A pyrrhicContinue reading “Compulsory Games”
Outing The Pathology 