{"id":14802,"date":"2014-01-20T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T18:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2014\/01\/20\/14802.html"},"modified":"2014-01-20T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T18:53:40","slug":"more-from-happy-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2014\/01\/20\/more-from-happy-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"More from _Happy All the Time_"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Still enjoying Laurie Colwin's 1978 novel Happy All the Time<\/cite>. Here are a couple more bits worth snipping for my commonplace book.<\/p>\n

On p. 87, Vincent (one of the male leads) is in love:<\/p>\n

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Love, he reflected, was not at all like science. It seemed unfair to him that there was nowhere one might research except to go to the thing itself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And from pp. 100-101, an exchange between Guido (the other male lead) and his new secretary Stanley, who's taking a leave of absence from being a college student:<\/p>\n

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Stanley wrote a rapid, legible hand. He made excellent coffee. He loved to answer the telephone because of the groovy voices and he did in fact type like a demon. Shortly before lunch, he presented Guido with a stack of typed letters. All the w<\/i>'s had been left out and were written in an Italic hand.<\/p>\n

“Is the w<\/i> key on that typewriter broken?” Guido asked.<\/p>\n

“No, man. It's a little device I made up from going crazy typing term papers. See, you pick a letter and then you leave it out and then you write it in. It's a little challenge. I discovered it when I was on ups.”<\/p>\n

“Ups?” said Guido.<\/p>\n

“Speed,” said Stanley. “You know, amphetamines and stuff. All us young persons used to do it. My mind was turning into pea soup, so I stopped. But you discover some really weird stuff, like what I call 'the left-out-letter syndrome.'”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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