Monday, February 26, 2024

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place*

If it’s not 50% Anonymous Four and 50% Judy Collins/Linda Ronstadt, I just want silence for my AirPods.

Scratch that. I just want silence. Gone are the days when I wore a younger man’s clothes and did my best work in a noisy bagel shop in Webster Groves, MO.

I’ve already said too much. Now I have to find my bug out bag and execute my exfil.


*My absolute favorite of Hemingway’s stories. Had he written nothing else, he would still deserve all his accolades. It’s a narrative experiment as brilliant as Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

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