The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon.
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Zum Autor"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
"I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... Set yourself on something... And then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?"
"Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you."
"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."
"Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position."
"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-."