Status Updates From Depesze

Also this quote on page 38 that I can’t stop rereading: Flynn said and laughts while Page took the record that was playing on the turntable off without asking anybody and put on Jimi Hendrix: long tense organic guitar line that made him shiver like frantic electric ecstasy was shooting up from the carpet through his spine straight to the old pleasure center in his cream-cheese brain.

Maybe I’ll start finding quotes I like and putting them in my updates. Here’s one on the page I stopped at: It was one of those days that I realized that the only corpse I couldn’t bear to look at would be the one I would never have to see.”

Some of the best nonfiction I’ve ever read. No spoilers, but Herr’s story on 64 is some of the most haunting things I’ve ever read. I was reading on my plane ride home from Durran’s Bachelor Party trip in New Orleans, and and I shed tears sitting between two strangers. Hours later, it still sits so heavily on your shoulders.