Status Updates From Adeus, Columbus

یه گونه از راوی غیرقابل اعتماد هست که ویلیام ریگان بهش می‌گه Naīf. غیرقابل‌اعتمادبودنِ این راوی حالت یه خودفریبی آیرونیک داره و بهترین نمونه‌هاش مربوط می‌شه به رمان‌های ادبی دهه ۵۰ و ۶۰. نیل کلوگمنِ این داستان هم یه نمونه‌ی همواره آیرونیکه و قابلیتشو داره با دوستان بشینیم وساعت‌ها کالبدگشاییش کنیم.

Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them—at least I didn’t; to phrase them was to invent them and own them. We whipped our strangeness and newness into a froth that resembled love, and we dared not play too long with it, talk too much of it, or it would flatten and fizzle away. So we moved back and forth from chairs to water, from talk to silence, and considering my unshakable edginess

You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings: had to do this one cold turkey since it’s not included in the audible audiobook but neat little slice of life in the world of high school education… not exactly a foreign country to me. Probably the least Jewish of the collection.

Epstein: so very Jewish.

Defender of the Faith: equal parts hilarious and frustrating. This is maybe the most accurate depiction of what it’s like to work in education.

The Conversion of the Jews: lots of fun.

Goodbye, Columbus: as dated as this is, what a great story. Hilarious, sad, and so very Jewish. Curious how the other stories stack up.