Future View
Speaking of memories (see my last post), I was thinking the other day about the gas crisis caused by the oil embargo of 1973. For those of you who are old like me, you may remember the huge jump in gas prices (from 35 cents to 55 cents a gallon). Irate people sat in […]
Always Now
In E.L. Doctorow’s novel about the Civil War, The March, there is a minor character who has a spike thrust through his skull during battle. Miraculously he lives, but the spike is pressing on a part of his brain that affects his memory. His memory is so badly affected, he cannot even remember what […]
