Status Updates From Homer Price

Some societal notes here: the only snafu is the fact that the sign painter is a union man and demands wages up top for his union workers (of hich he is the only member). There is a great 150 year celebration of the town of Centerburg in which the African Baptist organist and choir are the central musical participants. However Homer and his friends represent the Native Americans since none of them are about.

The product is a community in which each home is do precisely alike that the only way the new tenets can find their home is by a mathematical formula. To me it’s sounds horrible but Elon Musk is working on some u it’s a lot like this.

The title “Nothing New Under the Sun (Hardly)” shows how consistent life in Centerburg is. This might explain Homer’s Uncle Ulysses and his fixation on labor saving devices. The last chapter is “The Wheels of Progress.” In it he and Miss Enders combine their vision (and her money) to build in record time a new suburb of prefab, mass produced houses.

It’s a testament to the age of the story that the complications of getting the old man to buy new plates for his antique mouse catcher and then paying him the extra to let the children go as well only amounted to sixty dollars.

“Somebody out of a book” the narrating town hit it on the target. There in town comes the Pied Piper and Rip Van Winkle. I’m just happy that the town is literate enough.

“Mystery Yarn” is primarily a story of a romantic triangle between The Sheriff (who constantly gets his words mixed up), Homer’s Uncle Telemachus (another name from Greek myth) and the single woman who taught weaving in town, a Miss Terwilliger. It is the competition of the unwinding of giant balls of yard or string thing brings the story to absurdest level typical of McCloskey.