Obviously, the book itself is fairly pessimistic, but that doesn’t mean I necessarily feel the same way. The book is meant to be a nightmare. Maybe we would find a way to manage a population that doesn’t age, but that wasn’t where the idea took me. The idea took me right to the shitter. FUN!
By the time things go Cormac McCarthy, you will have a hard time looking at this book because it’s so weird and sad. When Magary takes us up to 30,000 feet for a view of the rest of the world’s solution to over population, you get the idea about “Great Correction”.
If you find it hard to get your head around an ex-cop who becomes an exclusive home designer, the bridge is AA. Terry is more than Randy’s best friend, He was also Randy’s sponsor in AA. Terry asked Randy, his life a wreck, what he would want to do if he could do anything. Then Terry made sure that Randy went back to school and earned the credentials that enabled him to design homes.
Amidst the pleasure, I remember feeling a twinge of resentment toward the teacher who’d turned me on to this story—as though she’d somehow usurped a piece of my individuality before I’d gotten the chance to discover it for myself.
In the early 1960s, my parents had what I suppose was a typical-for-the-time collection on the shelves in our post-war suburban living room. A row of Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, for which they had a subscription. James Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone. Leon Uris’s Exodus, of course. Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (partially hidden). From Here to Eternity by James Jones. The much loved How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewelyn.
Our swain, Charlie, lives decidedly upscale. His older brother goes to West Point. His father is an architect. Charlie is slated for Rensselaer. My gosh, Rensselaer, the Cambridge of engineering schools! When I was in high school, I knew a kid who was going to Rensselaer. He intimidated the shit out of me.
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