What's particularly funny about Alice's post is that in the course of last night, despite not knowing about the New Yorker piece, I thought about:
1 Bill James, because he loves 2 C. C. Sabathia, who was pitching in the baseball game I was watching, 3 Lemurs, because I'd just learned that (of course?) Byron had one, and 4Moby-Dick, because I was trying to draw on my love of its sprawling immensity to make me more receptive to the potential charms of Infinite Jest, which I was reading.
What's particularly funny about Alice's post is that in the course of last night, despite not knowing about the New Yorker piece, I thought about:
ReplyDelete1 Bill James, because he loves
2 C. C. Sabathia, who was pitching in the baseball game I was watching,
3 Lemurs, because I'd just learned that (of course?) Byron had one, and
4 Moby-Dick, because I was trying to draw on my love of its sprawling immensity to make me more receptive to the potential charms of Infinite Jest, which I was reading.