Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:58:13 -0700
From: “N.A. Booko”
Subject: Lance on the shelf . .
Lance Armstrong just sits there . . . on the shelf . . waiting for me . .. his 2000 book “It’s Not Just The Bike” tells of his struggle and survival of cancer- tells of his being a five time winner of the Tour DE France. The book has been sitting there, high on the shelf for several years now- I glance at it and think to myself- ‘should I read it or not’- after all, so much has happened since then,. would it seem not real, not up to date, less interesting?
Should I move on to Golda Meir? Hillary Rodham Clinton? They sit there waiting and all have plenty of good company: Rod Stewart, Anita Hill, Ron Goldman, John Glenn, Catherine Marshall, David Brinkley, Sandra Day O’Connor, Lauren Bacall, Micheal J. Fox, Gerry Spence, Jane Pauley, Russell Baker, Abe Lincoln, Elenore and Franklin, Ted Koppel, Teddy Roosevelt. All biographies- My choice of reading- Not much on fiction- but you can bet a lot of famous people’s biographies are braced up with fiction.
On a lower shelf, with a heavier coat of dust- Roman Mythology, Vatican Museum Treasures, History of Art, Vogue Sept 2003. Under those are Mary Baker Eddie, Lindbergh, George Cukor, Rudy Valle- Still lower “Aging- An Album of People Growing Old’ and “How We Die”, “Jokes for All Occasions”, La Toya Jackson.
And not even on a shelf, but on the floor, cob webs, mildew, dogeared and scruffy- “NABOOKO- The Original Good Time That Was Had By One and All”
N.A. Booko