Shadow Ticket Group Read 2026

[Mark Kohut]

Is Hicks a Hick?....I read it this way before I looked up any etymology for
Hicks
or Hick....A hick, like Hicks derives from the name Richard.Hick meant
commoner
like a hansom driver before the 17th Century.....the name/nickname does go
back to the 14th Century.
By the 17th, it was a putdown, meant an unsophisticated country boy, a
rustic....

Preterite echos, origins.? Shadows of?.....certainly 'organic community'
-adjacent origins and meanings...

When I got my copy and plunged into the first 35- 50 pages like I used to
read young; like I
jumped into Against the DAy or Inherent Vice I liked the prose so much....a
smooth--all those commas like waves, -- distilled wit everywhere...
this old man of eighty-eight writing as if it was his first novel,
springlike prose and nary a discouraging word....I might even say like
Shakepeare's
magic comedy at the end of his shorter life: The Tempest......A twitter guy
and I shared this feeling about it....something different in his style, we
agreed.
Can't describe it better than lamely like this....

His name: from grounded here to eternity, so to joke allude.