Wednesday, March 26, 2003 ::: Things I Noticed Today Because I Walked Home Instead of Riding the Bus
1) Servitex Linen Service is no aceptando usos del empleo hoy.
2) Of the eight cars parked in front of the West German Garage Inc., only one was German, and that was a Volkswagon Rabbit.
3) There is a little campsite beneath the bridge over the railroad tracks on Gorman Street.
4) From the bridge over the railroad tracks on Gorman Street you can see three blue shopping carts from the local Food Lion abandoned in the weeds.
5) The busted up pickup truck camper shell in the woods near the railroad tracks isn't going anywhere. Its been there for two years.
6) People are litterbugs.
7) The girl with the "Tiki Hut Bar" t-shirt.
Quote of the Day:
Dear Max --
How about this for a title - For Whom the Bell Tolls A Novel by Ernest Hemingway. I think it has the magic that a title has to have. Maybe it isn't too easy to say. But maybe the book will make it easy. Anyway I have had thirty some titles and they were all possible but this is the first one that has made the bell toll for me. Or do you suppose that people think only of tolls as long distance charges and of Bell as the Bell telephone system? If so it is out. The Tollling of the Bell. No. That's not right. If there is no modern connotation of telephone to throw it off For Whom the Bell Tolls can be a good title I think. Anyway it is what I want to say. And so if it isn't right we will get it right. Meantime you have your provisional title for April 22. Let me hear from you. Best to Charley. Going now to the Jai-Alai to try and make it 21 straight.
Best Always
Ernest
--- Ernest Hemingway to Max Perkins, April 21, 1940.
