During a concert by the New York Philharmonic I streaked across the stage, naked except for a Richard M. To Jennifer, of the champagne sea in her belly button, Archy answered why he wasn't an attorney: "Because I was expelled from Yale Law for not being serious enough. And, of course, this attitude of "if you can't lick 'em flick 'em" which Archy aimed toward kvetch-ers as he terms them, continues from the above, with relish accumulating, throughout the book.Īrchy is a rare sane person swimming along nicely within the insanity of a last-gasp-culture (which is "drowning in The Be Careful Sea" as I described and termed that syndrome in one of my sci fi manuscripts titled MORNING COMES). I'd bet my fortune (which is based on a skill of "make do" there are no bananas in it) that the above passage is what captured a collection of readers so absolutely in a "right on" agreement that this series spanned the grave of the author and is still spewing pages and stretching shelves. It hadn?t happened yet, had it? The old world tottered along, and I was content to totter along with it." After a while my juices stopped their panicky surge and I realized I was bored with all these screeched predictions of Armageddon due next Tuesday. "I had lived through dire warnings of nuclear catastrophe, global warming, ozone depletion, universal extinction via cholesterol, and the invasion of killer bees. On page 1 chapter 1, one of the main selling points of the series bursts through: But, truly and honestly, what sunk me with every hook were the few lines exposing why Archy could never be serious. The first lines in SECRET, the sipping of champagne from a belly button would snag the attention of even the most sexually skittish reader of the nose-raised, neck-cricked, personality persuasion. Isn't that the type of win/win the world needs now? They wanted out and they deserved a chance where their skills could and would save not only themselves, but those who hired them. This is how and why such a club should be started: "We were facing Chapter 7 when we had the great good fortune to hire the Pettibones, an African-American family who had been living in one of the gamier neighborhoods of West Palm Beach and wanted out." I'm very big on hope."Īrchy's description of the start up of the Pelican Club was the best type of soul food. Holmes, Archy says: "I can't glance at a man and immediately know he's left-handed, constipated, has a red-headed wife, and slices lox for a living. The introductory remarks were exquisite in mapping the reasons for, "Can't you ever be serious, Archy?"Ĭomparing himself to S. The opening of this novel was classic, and felt to be the initiation of what Sanders was born and itching to write, beyond the sagas of his other fine works. Upon reading the illuminating passages of Archy's grandparent's ways into money, I began to wonder what other Secrets this novel might expose. (That's not the secret.) I had accepted the face value of the Palm Beach mansion and the genteel lifestyle of pater Prescott McNally, Yale graduate, leather-bound-Dickens-reading, attorney-at-law. In McNally's SECRET, the pilot to this series, we're informed that the pater McNally is not an old-money man. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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