Do you try to listen to calssical music but feel you don't ever really advance past knowing it's better than it sounds?
Padgett PowellIf you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?
Padgett Powellthe levity of the doomed has no equal.
Padgett Powelldisputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness
Padgett PowellTags: happiness
jejune longing is the chewing gum of life.
Padgett Powellease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting here like unconquerable savages, men missing their dogs and talking pointlessly unless talk to the dead. let's sharpen something.
Padgett Powellthe zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different.
--Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men
Tags: happy-playgrounds
My mother will emerge with a towel on her head, Nefertiti fashion, and a good terry-cloth robe, and make herself a tall gin-and-tonic and look like a movie star for an hour. Being around her is like being on safari; there is an elusive something we are after, in difficult conditions, and we will look good in the getting there.
Padgett PowellA whole section of the family tree is pruned and primped and assessed as I politely sit there. Overall, I detect that the tree is fine: its leaves gently turning in the breeze of life. We have no scandal blight, no limb-wrenching storms of fate, no bad apples. I wonder what it is like when the Kennedys sit around for a disk check like this.
Padgett PowellCholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
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