| | I'm only a few pages into Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine" and already, it's got some thought rolling about. [edit 12/29: I finished the book between writing the first three paragraphs and the rest of the post. There are lots of thoughts rolling around in it anyway].
One chapter, for instance, deals with tennis shoes (the midwestern term for sneakers). We wear them year round, but Douglas Spaulding takes off his leather winter shoes and slides into the soft shoes of summer.
What is one pleasure (that we actively notice as a pleasure) that will become commonplace in the future? Can we prevent this? Should we?
Every few chapters contains conundrums (conundra?) like these--powerful questions of nostalgia and the present life, and the hazy summer of 1928 where the two are blurred. It is, to refer to Steinbeck's description of "East of Eden," a little box, full of everything. Answer the questions, please, and think of your favorite summer since 1928.
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