"A neighbor girl shoved a broken bottle in my face during a quarrel. Afterward, I retreated to the natural world and never really came back, you know."
From a list of "What I've learned," by Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall (which he wrote in 9 days, "like taking dictation," but only after he'd been thinking "about the story for 5 years").
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I've read pretty much all of Jim Harrison's novels. Really great stuff. Unforgettable characters.
Then there's a bit of trivia. Patrick Swayze's character is shown reading a Jim Harrison novel, in guilty pleasure cult movie Road House. Ha.
Jim is a real piece of work. I remember eating in the cafeteria near him when he was an artist in residence when I was in college ... 30+ years ago.
Jim is the "other writer" from northern Michigan although he now lives elsewhere.
Thurber lost an eye as a child and as a result of difficulty seeing specialized in shorter pieces.
If more people lost eyes, we'd have more poets and the world would be a better place.
E. O. Wilson says that his focus on insects developed as a result of being blinded in one eye.
"A neighbor girl shoved a broken bottle in my face during a quarrel."
Yep, I can see why feminism is SOOOOOOO necessary,...
"Ten Strikes You're Out"
Flip them burgers man
Strike one, I saw you winking at my friends
I'll poke your damn eye so you'll never wink again
You'll never wink again
This is a link to links to Ten Strikes You're Out.
My high school French I teacher, Mrs. Barbour, was Robert Penn Warren's sister. (She taught us French with a heavy Western Kentucky accent.) The major league pitcher Kent Greenfield was his best friend as a boy, and RPW had baseball aspirations, too, according to Mrs. Barbour. I thought she said that he lost an eye playing baseball, but an online biography says that his younger brother threw a rock at him, blinding him in one eye. Robert Penn Warren became the first US Poet Laureate, and won three Pulitzer Prizes--two in poetry and one for his novel, "All the King's Men." He was also a US Poet Laureate.
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Evolution is a chaotic process, with a diverse set of semi-stable outcomes.
Wow, post has been up all day and only 8 comments?
No love for Harrison and literature, I guess.
Maybe if you had put 'Kardashian' in the title?
I wonder what Harrison would have become if he lost his right eye when he was a boy.
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