Never too much good stuff! GRIEVANCES conjured up those halcyon college days, those tiny cluttered apartments, the greasy fast food, the moldy pizza boxes, and those mandatory piles of books; some of which we kept for 40 years until now the three volumes of THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION seem archaic, almost silly. The lady of the piece for some reason comes off for me petite, Indian, gorgeous, cooking many kinds of exotic dishes loaded with curry and odd smelling spices, with parents from Bombay, whose father wears a turbin and works for the public library, and she has a stray cat that hisses at you when you go over to her place, and her roommate is a heavy black girl with braces who wears red sashes in her dredlocks.
MIKE'S ROOM really puts us there. I had a converted room in a garage while in high school and I was the oldest of three kids. It was the early 60's so real rock and roll had not descended upon the planet yet, so there were no posters; comic books and baseball cards, yes. You always make the writing to personable, it is tremendously hard to separate the writer from the person. If you do not have an older brother named Mike, you should've had.
Never too much good stuff!
ReplyDeleteGRIEVANCES conjured up those
halcyon college days, those
tiny cluttered apartments,
the greasy fast food, the moldy
pizza boxes, and those mandatory
piles of books; some of which
we kept for 40 years until now
the three volumes of THE HISTORY
OF CIVILIZATION seem archaic,
almost silly. The lady of the
piece for some reason comes
off for me petite, Indian,
gorgeous, cooking many kinds
of exotic dishes loaded with
curry and odd smelling spices,
with parents from Bombay, whose
father wears a turbin and works
for the public library, and she
has a stray cat that hisses
at you when you go over to her
place, and her roommate is a
heavy black girl with braces
who wears red sashes in her
dredlocks.
MIKE'S ROOM really puts us
there. I had a converted room
in a garage while in high school
and I was the oldest of three
kids. It was the early 60's
so real rock and roll had not
descended upon the planet yet,
so there were no posters; comic
books and baseball cards, yes.
You always make the writing
to personable, it is tremendously
hard to separate the writer
from the person. If you do not
have an older brother named
Mike, you should've had.
Thanks Glenn.
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