favourite re-read
Neil Whitworth (neil.whitworth@dial.pipex.com)
Sat, 29 Nov 1997 13:18:57 -0800
Just a quick note to say one of my favourite parts in JDS' writing is in Seymour An
Introduction when Buddy is remembering running (like the wind I think) down the sidewalk
for ice-cream. He is the fastest boy in the world, no one could ever run as fast, and
then Seymour catches him up! Seymour says something like how he NEARLY couldn't catch
Buddy and was worried something was wrong. As it was Seymour, Buddy doesn't really mind
that he is the second fastest boy in the world.
I love that little story.
I know what Buddy meant about running, but in the early seventies when I was a boy, I
think I must have been faster!!
Neil
youth in its flush and flower
has a soul of whitest flame
eternity in an hour
all life and death in a game
may youth forever weave you
his magic round your ways
and time the robber leave you
the boy's heart all your days
M G Stephenson