Brandon’s Reviews > I Cover the Waterfront > Status Update

Home by sea.

A run of chapters setting distance between men and women. The whole book is kind of a guy’s book. I tried to read Andie a chapter, but I know it’s not her kind of thing.

apple-fish simile

“my mind’s finally on the skids. too much fishing.”

fish pool inland, like Grandpa Watson’s or koi pond at Manzanar

“never got around to getting married”

wants to meet authors like dorothy parker, not pilots

typewriter in the sky

hidden god, hidden sea, hidden pipe for spring, hidden sex, talk about something else.

the cans in the swordfish story work like the barrels in Jaws.

“manage somehow to talk about other things” might be a definition of poetry; here’s a fishing story about Mello whose mind has been captured

fisherman’s eyesight