Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair and ruddy skin that burns at the beach. A bundle of appetites. A full, boisterous guffaw; a man who tells knock know jokes. Hot dogs - not even East 86th Street bratwurst but mealy, greasy big guts that terrifying pink. Baseball. Gimme caps. Puns and blockbuster movies, raw tap water and six-packs. A fearless, trusting consumer who only reads labels to make sure there are plenty of additives. A fan of the open road with a passion for his pickup who thinks bicycles are for nerds. Fucks hard and talks dirty; a private though unapologetic taste for porn. Mysteries, thrillers, and science fiction; a subscription to National Geographic. Barbecues on the Fourth of July and intentions, in the fullness of time, to take up golf. Delights in crappy snack foods of ever description: Burgles. Curlies. Cheesies. Squigglies - you're laughing - but I don't eat them - anything that looks less like food than packing material and at least six degrees of separation from the farm. Bruce Springsteen, the early albums, cranked up high with the truck window down and your hair flying. Sings along, off-key - how is it possible that I should be endeared by such a tin ear?Beach Boys. Elvis - never lose your roots, did you, loved plain old rock and roll. Bombast. Though not impossibly stodgy; I remember, you took a shine to Pearl Jam, which was exactly when Kevin went off them...(sorry). It just had to be noisy; you hadn't any time for my Elgar, my Leo Kottke, though you made an exception for Aaron Copeland. You wiped your eyes brusquely at Tanglewood, as if to clear gnats, hoping I didn't notice that "Quiet City" made you cry. And ordinary, obvious pleasure: the Bronx Zoo and the botanical gardens, the Coney Island roller coaster, the Staten Island ferry, the Empire State Building. You were the only New Yorker I'd ever met who'd actually taken the ferry to the Statue of Liberty. You dragged me along once, and we were the only tourists on the boat who spoke English. Representational art - Edward Hopper. And my lord, Franklin, a Republican. A belief in a strong defense but otherwise small government and low taxes. Physically, too, you were such a surprise - yourself a strong defense. There were times you were worried that I thought you too heavy, I made so much of your size, though you weighed in a t a pretty standard 165, 170, always battling those five pounds' worth of cheddar widgets that would settle over your belt. But to me you were enormous. So sturdy and solid, so wide, so thick, none of that delicate wristy business of my imaginings. Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. How luck we are, when we've spared what we think we want! How weary I might have grown of all those silly pots and fussy diets, and how I detest the whine of sitar music!
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LIONEL BLUE Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. LIONEL TRILLING Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothin... LIONEL MESSI I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the cr... LIONEL MESSI Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him... LIONEL TRILLING I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been... LIONEL BLUE Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. LIONEL BLUE Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more th... LIONEL TRILLING I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sex... LIONEL BLUE One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth. LIONEL STRACHEY Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious eve... LIONEL TRILLING The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. LIONEL TRILLING Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. LIONEL TRILLING A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. LIONEL STRACHEY We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of b... LIONEL TRILLING Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary inte... LIONEL TRILLING The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularit... LIONEL TRILLING Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, poss... LIONEL TRILLING A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather ... LIONEL TRILLING Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader LIONEL TRILLING We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Ut... LIONEL TRILLING Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecuti... LIONEL TRILLING In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetra... LIONEL TRILLING It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. LIONEL TRILLING In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous re... LIONEL BARBER You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it. LIONEL MESSI The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player. LIONEL MESSI Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. LIONEL HAMPTON Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift. LIONEL MESSI Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm... LIONEL MESSI The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the n... LIONEL BARBER Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond... LIONEL HAMPTON I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it... LIONEL RICHIE Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have ... LIONEL BARBER I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. LIONEL JOSPIN It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter M... LIONEL MESSI You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels li... LIONEL RICHIE I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag... LIONEL SUGGS My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of t... LIONEL BLUE A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ... LIONEL TRILLING There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way ... LIONEL MESSI I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble ... LIONEL MESSI I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to ... LIONEL MESSI My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, wher... LIONEL SOSA Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed. LIONEL SOSA The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. LIONEL TRILLING I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nic... LIONEL MESSI The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Li... LIONEL MESSI I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Arg... LIONEL MESSI It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reitera... LIONEL TRILLING