Bool!

[Drawn to Ka-tet]

I just re-read a story in Everything's Eventual too with an indirect (I think) "bool" reference. The character (can't remember the story title, but it was the one with the gourmet food salesman in the hotel room considering suicide...) was thinking out something and "bool-it" was used in reference to a "bullet."

Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away????

I remember he collected notes and sayings, like Save Russian Jews, Collect Prizes or some such bizarre thing....

Long days and pleasant nights.

[Perse Jr.]

Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away????

I remember he collected notes and sayings, like Save Russian Jews, Collect Prizes or some such bizarre thing....

Long days and pleasant nights.

Thank you! I double checked and it's "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away." Yes, he (Alfie) kept a journal or notebook of sayings he found on walls in bathrooms and stuff, and the "bool-it" reference was to his own little jingle about shooting himself. Poopie doopie you so loopy! (If you haven't read the book, that's another saying in the story.)

[Kim L.]

Thank you! I double checked and it's "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away." Yes, he (Alfie) kept a journal or notebook of sayings he found on walls in bathrooms and stuff, and the "bool-it" reference was to his own little jingle about shooting himself. Poopie doopie you so loopy! (If you haven't read the book, that's another saying in the story.)

One of my favorite of his short stories. Also "Viva ze bool" in Rose Madder (bool = bull).