Deadbeat neighbor: “BEAUTIFUL DAY TODAY, EH?” Me: “Yeah, I guess.” Deadbeat neighbor: “YOU GUESS? JUST LOOK AT THAT SKY! LOOK AT THOSE MOUNTAINS!” Me: “Yes, nice, I know. But why are you talking in all caps?” Deadbeat neighbor: “AM I?” Me: “Yeah. And it’s annoying as hell.” Deadbeat neighbor: “Oh. Sorry about that.” Me: Deadbeat neighbor: Me: Deadbeat neighbor: “…So. Beautiful day today, eh…?”
August 21, 2004
August 21, 2004
Sentences I wish I’d Written / Uttered, 3
1. “The notion of Henry James entering into a homosexual, or indeed a heterosexual, relationship with another human being is, not to put too fine a point on it, unthinkable. Henry James, happily bonking away, would not be Henry James”—Joseph Epstein, “The Author as Character, The Weekly Standard, August 9 2004. 2. “Honey, you are the star that makes my Little Dipper Big”—some guy at a hotel bar in Reno,
August 21, 2004
Sentences I wish I’d Written / Uttered, 3
1. “The notion of Henry James entering into a homosexual, or indeed a heterosexual, relationship with another human being is, not to put too fine a point on it, unthinkable. Henry James, happily bonking away, would not be Henry James”—Joseph Epstein, “The Author as Character, The Weekly Standard, August 9 2004. 2. “Honey, you are the star that makes my Little Dipper Big”—some guy at a hotel bar in Reno,