Normally I prefer my essays much longer and more pellucid. But this is really good.

Gravity’s Rainbow Explained in 6 Minutes

Partly because he illustrates it with clips from the history of film from Caligari to Kubrick.

The book itself is very likely unfilmable.

I read it the same summer I went to Fort Knox, most of it onsite.

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Well, the Rams got up from the grave and the Giants lost the game, and their promising young quarterback.

And the battery in my pickup died, on the road this time.

But it’s not all bad news.

I have a Viking jump box.

And it fits in the saddlebag of my e-bike.

So I rode up there and jumped the lovely old Lariat.

And I dropped the bike at home.

And I drove the still-running truck up to Checker Auto and bought a new battery.

And thus, I’ll have productive work to do, come the morning.

Besides which, my bride, one of the three women in my life who I know actually do read what I write here, went out and bought me a sonic weapon that hurts a dog’s ears when it barks like a fool.

And the damn thing works.

So my life is pretty much perfect as it is.