I didn’t know much about The Natural, except that it
was a movie I hadn’t seen starring Robert Redford, and that some consider the
book, written by Bernard Malamud and published in 1952, the quintessential,
literary baseball...
My second read for the Summer of Summer reading project is Seating
Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead. In this story, the Van Meters have
gathered for the marriage of their eldest daughter, Daphne, who is well bred
and educated...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
