Status Updates From The Natural

Gli anni luce sono un’unità di misura dello spazio, non del tempo.

It hasn’t aged great, but I get it

“Sometimes he wished he had no ambitions—often wondered where they had come from in his life, because he remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had—a dog, a stick, an aloneness he loved (which did not bleed him like his later loneliness), and he wished he could have lived longer in his boyhood. This was an old thought with him.”

Wish Malamud wrote more baseball fables

It hasn’t aged very well, but still, admittedly, beautifully written. Thoroughly engrossed.