Sublime

Instead, he did something which was to become a standard American response to the blues: at the age of fifty he went to California and made a fresh start. And it seemed to work for him. He was soon exhibiting all his old vigour and efficiency. He arrived in the autumn of

I joined a walking group. I’d always loved nature, but I’d kept it a closely guarded secret. Just the idea of being seen in an anorak! But I started going out with this group every Sunday. Sometimes during the week too. They were mostly retirees, and really there was no point me trying to impress them with my repartee because half of them had heari

He hears his dead undergrad mentor quoting Mark Twain. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. “In the field. I seem to have gotten a little lost.”

“He not busy being born is busy dying.”