But crossing into Louisiana I got this haunted little rill of feeling -- there was moss and mud everywhere and an inexplicable, hollow sensation that Louisiana is what would be left of the South after it has been nuked -- that I and everything around me were irretrievably rotten.
Padgett PowellPotato salad in the South is nothing less than the principal smuggler of cholesterol into the festive, careless heart. It is pure poison beneath the facade of bland puritan propriety. It is the food of choice at any food banquet of smiling relatives who celebrate tacitly among themselves the dark twining of two of their promising youth.
Padgett PowellWriting is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.
Padgett Powellapply shingles from the bottom up.
Padgett PowellMots clés happy-plagrounds-the-new-world
Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?
Padgett PowellIsn't it true that there is a rare kind of person who perceives, as does a good dog, that life is doing something meaningful, and who discovers what it is and goes about doing it with a spirit of moderate hustle, and there is a not rare kind of person who perceives none of this and who goes about doing what is necessary in a spirit of aggrievedness?
Padgett PowellCan you imagine doing something in your life that will be fully satisfying and redeeming for your having tried to do it, whether you succeeded in it or failed, and that, correspondingly, would be fully shameful had you not tried to do it?
Padgett PowellMots clés life
in a new world behave in a new way as a new man. unhorse the conquistador.
Padgett PowellMots clés happy-playgrounds-the-new-world
don't hesitate to insulate your house, especially the floor.
Padgett PowellMots clés happy-playgrounds-the-new-world
the new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world.
Padgett PowellMots clés happy-playgrounds-the-new-world
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