Additional evidence that your tastes & opinions on books is top notch - Willeford!
If you have any thoughts on “Cockfighter”, they would be welcomed.
Magnificent book. It will make you glad this tremendous sport still thrives around the world. One day, when we recognize that cockfighting is when dinner fights, it will return to our great nation,
My instinct is to be wary of uprootedness like this, not having any attachment or meaningful loyalties to other people. There is still something really charming and engaging about a young lad having the whole world at his feet, setting off somewhere, anywhere to make something of himself. I’ll have to put this on my reading list.
Part of what makes it great is that he ends it right there. It's a bold choice, or just an unconscious one. Most other writers would go on for pages commenting on their own comments.
Wanderlust is real. There are many responsibilities in life as we get older and have more duties to family and community. Get your adventuring out early, and if you can find an adventurous spouse.
Thank you for sharing, CC. This is really great.
This is a deeply embedded male impulse.
I’ve got three kids, two girls and one boy. The girls always play together, always do the thing that everyone is doing.
The boy will do some of that. But every day there comes a time when he just wanders off by himself for no particular reason.
Additional evidence that your tastes & opinions on books is top notch - Willeford!
If you have any thoughts on “Cockfighter”, they would be welcomed.
Magnificent book. It will make you glad this tremendous sport still thrives around the world. One day, when we recognize that cockfighting is when dinner fights, it will return to our great nation,
Cockfighter is one of the best books of all time
May I ask who is the author of "Cockfighter"?
Charles Willeford.
He also wrote “Miami Blues”, and a lot of other great novels.
Oof I must have made a typo then, because of course I tried him first but somehow I couldn’t find anything. Thanks!
Where’s the A Perfect World episode???
I'm tired, boss...
Take a nap and dream of Genral Wrangle, you’ll feel better.
My instinct is to be wary of uprootedness like this, not having any attachment or meaningful loyalties to other people. There is still something really charming and engaging about a young lad having the whole world at his feet, setting off somewhere, anywhere to make something of himself. I’ll have to put this on my reading list.
Glenn Campbell, Gentle on my Mind.
https://youtu.be/mfMnNqn-hKg?si=1z5o2h07d12rE7SU
Part of what makes it great is that he ends it right there. It's a bold choice, or just an unconscious one. Most other writers would go on for pages commenting on their own comments.
Wanderlust is real. There are many responsibilities in life as we get older and have more duties to family and community. Get your adventuring out early, and if you can find an adventurous spouse.