Last week was the 40th anniversary of MLK Jr’s assassination. Until I heard it on the radio, I hadn’t realized he was thirty-nine years old when he was killed. I think of his presence, his power, his is-ness—he was thirty-four years old when he gave the I Have a Dream speech during the 1963 [...]
I finally read Doris Lessing’s Nobel lecture. I had been intending to for months, but kept getting sidetracked; you know how it is (yes, it’s that attention thing mentioned by Jacoby in the We Are Idiots post of a couple of days ago). My belated reading resulted in a timely convergence because Lessing reiterates the point made by Jacoby, [...]
coming from Jan at Yearning for God.
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Okay, on the pile of books waiting to be returned to the library, on the floor, behind my chair . . . Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle.
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Continuing description of a poor illegal immigrant from Mexico searching for his [...]
