The Lives Of Happy People Are Dense

Most Young Dealers Of The Silicon Chip Era Regard A Reference Library As Merely A Waste Of Space. Old Timers On The West Coast Seem To Retain A Fondness For Reference Books That Goes Beyond The Practical. Everything There Is To Know About A Given Volume May Be Only A Click Away, But There Are Still A Few Of Us Who'd Rather Have The Book Than The Click. A Bookman's Love Of Books Is A Love Of Books, Not Merely Of The Information In Them.

But The English Are Different, And They Don't Know How To Be Other Than Different.

Only A Rank Degenerate Would Drive 1,500 Miles Across Texas Without Eating A Chicken Fried Steak.

If We Know Anything About Man, It's That He's Not Pacific. The Temptation To Butcher Anyone Considered Undesirable Seems To Be A Common Temptation, Not Always Resisted.

I Remember That The Single Most Vicious Letter I Ever Read Was The Letter Hemingway Wrote Scribners When They Asked Him To Give A Blurb For From Here To Eternity. It's There, In The Selected Letters For All To Read, An Example Of A Once Great Writer At His Very Worst. I Doubt That He Ever Forgave Scribners For Publishing James Jones In The First Place. War, As Hemingway Saw It, Belonged To Him.