There is great news in the publishing world. Random House is issuing a $5000 bonus to all its workers, windfall from the runaway success of E.I. James’ 50 Shades of Gray. Some critics lambast publishers who print works they deem trash. Others have said that such success allows a house to take a chance on an unknown. I have no problem with what the market decides. In fact, I am envious to a degree of the success of that erotic tale. The author connected with readers just like J.K. Rowling did with Harry Potter. More power to her. When I was young, I'd huff at such work. I was an "artist," you see, determined to write books that would last until the end of time. Years of frustration have humbled me.
I awoke to another vivid dream. I was swimming in lower Sheepshead Bay, which breached during Hurricane Sandy and flooded a significant portion of the area, causing a lot of damage. There were two huge whales there. I surfed on the back of one. I suspect the dream reflects the great luck I had in escaping the storm unscathed, while many of my neighbors suffered property loss. I suspect the two whales represent the boats that drifted over the pedestrian bridge that connects Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach. These days, environmental restrictions prevent the docking of boats in the lower bay, where my dad moored his in the 50‘s and 60‘s. The two have been removed.
71 years ago today - a day that lives on in infamy, as President Roosevelt so aptly put it, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. That dastardly act, along with what historians call the Rape of Nanking, where the Japanese slaughtered thousands of Chinese and raped women in 1937-38, were evils for which the Empire paid dearly, but not before hundreds of thousands in the Pacific theater were killed. One can only wonder at the madness that struck Japan and Germany simultaneously.
The rain forced me to set up the floating book shop at the viaduct at Avenue Z & East 15th, and the results were predictable. I thank the woman who purchased Stephen King's Cell.
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