And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in Americaas if Trout Fishing in America were a rich gourmet andTrout Fishing in America had Maria Callas for a girlfriendand they ate together on a marble table with beautiful candles.Compote of ApplesTake a dozen of golden pippins, pare themnicely and take the core out…
I made you unhappy, but there was nothingI could do about it because I have to be free.Perhaps everything would have been differentif you had stayed at the table or asked meto go out with you to look at the moon,instead of getting up and leaving me alone withher.
doesn’t mean theyhave to haveyour body,too.
We left Little Redfish for Lake Josephus, traveling along the good names — from Stanley to Capehorn to Seafoam to the Rapid River, up Float Creek, past the Greyhound Mine and then to Lake Josephus, and a few days after that up the trail to Hell-diver Lake with the baby on my shoulders and a…
in the mirrorsay it’s true.I’m 31and my nose is growingold.It starts about 1/2an inchbelow the bridgeand strolls geriatricallydownfor another inch or so:stopping.Fortunately, the restof the nose is comparativelyyoung.I wonder if girlswill want me with anold nose.I can hear them nowthe heartless bitches!‘He’s cutebut his noseis old.’
taking off his shoes.Is there anything more beautifulthan the bow of a shiptouching a new world?
from their hinges tofly with perfect clouds.There are windowsthat want to bereleased from theirframes to run withthe deer throughback country meadows.There are wallsthat want to prowlwith the mountainsthrough the earlymorning dusk.There are floorsthat want to digesttheir furniture intoflowers and trees.There are roofsthat want to travelgracefully withthe stars throughcircles of darkness.
The wind glanced at her hair.It was as simple as that.I turned to say something–
