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Since Mom didn't show, I got a big treat at the end--a ride back to Cambridge on the MTA. Following the thrill of the Marathon it seemed that it was only right to take the subway; after all, if you're willing to dine with someone you ought to be willing to wash the dishes. It was my feet that hurt most, but of course while I'd spent three hours roughing up my feet, thousands of miles away whole legs were being blown off people's bodies...
Coming Up for Air, George Orwell's fictional elegy for a vanished England, includes a celebration of boyhood fishing. The catch is lowly tench and carp, but the thrill comes from sitting by a green pool ringed with beech trees and watching a huge pike "that was basking in the reeds turn and plunge." Pike were beyond the boy's reach: "They'd have broken any tackle I possessed...
What a fantabulous thrill...
...intellectual argument nor compassion. From the moment that the orange and blue credit backgrounds start to work on us, followed by that long dolly which grows from Malcolm McDowell's leer to encompass the entire terribly-clever Korova Milk bar set, we are begged to participate in a mere thrill show. A proud Kubrick tells his interviewers how people may come to identify with McDowell as they do with Crookback in Richard III. But both Shakespeare and the original Burgess novel obviously present greater challenges: complex worlds beyond the single demented viewpoint of alternatives lost to antisocial action...
Whew, what a weekend. Wolfing down home-cooked food for four days, and watching an interesting championship swimming meet, I had the added bonus of participating in an impromptu one-man auto thrill show...