I have always collected my thoughts on Sunday, a habit enforced in my childhood when my father gave up on the church and turned to my own education w… - Jim Harrison

children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time.

He did recall that the summer after graduating from college before he joined the state police he had read Shakespeare. It was the pure language that stupefied him. He would be in a diner reading A Midsummer Night's Dream and his acquaintances were confident he was studying for some test. The test turned out to be the nature of his mind. Shakespeare seemed even truer than history. Literature was against the abyss while history wallowed in it.

his theory that all of the world’s problems were caused by notions of ethnic virtue and that if marriages were limited to interracial lovers there would be peace on earth.