Daughters

[David Casseres]

Henry sez:

>While at a bookstore with my 12-year old daughter, I rearranged the 
>M&Ds back-spine-front. She thought it was great. She needs to find 
>some vocabulary words now, so she's reading a bit of GR. Don't worry, 
>it's just after the opening dream. Am I a bad parent?

Certainly not!  What it is, you've got a daughter to brag about.  Me too, 
but I don't think my 12-year-old daughter would try GR.  She is finishing 
up The Once and Future King, though, and expects to plow into Mary 
Renault's The King Must Die next.

...of which I re-read, for the first time in oh, 30 years or so, the 
first chapter, which recounts the blood-sacrifice of a stallion to 
Poseidon in Archaic Greece, through the eyes of a 5-year-old boy.  It's 
mighty good stuff, of its kind.  And a day or so later I finished 
Gravity's Rainbow, with Gottfried fired into space in the belly of the 
Rocket.  Resonance?  It rang like a bell....


Cheers,
David