December 2009
10 posts
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what...”
– Alice in Wonderland
I Go Back to May 1937
I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling out under the ochre sandstone arch, the red tiles glinting like bent plates of blood behind his head, I see my mother with a few light books at her hip standing at the pillar make of tiny bricks with the wrought-iron gate still open behind her, its sword-tips back in the May air, they are about to graduate, they...
Dear Mrs. Bush
I am writing to let you know why I am not able to accept your kind invitation to give a presentation at the National Book Festival on September 24, or to attend your dinner at the Library of Congress or the breakfast at the White House. In one way, it’s a very appealing invitation. The idea of speaking at a festival attended by 85,000 people is inspiring! The possibility of finding new...
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely...”
– Lord Byron
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of...”
– The Walrus and the Carpenter, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.