Volume I ends with the burying of the father, begins with a
Proustian meditation on death.
Enter Volume II. Our hero doesn’t care what he eats as long
as he has fuel for writing … then, with no explanation, he, a bitter-ish
house husband, is planning and buying food at gourmet shops for elaborate meals.
There are long, amazingly authentic sounding, all-inclusive literary,
intellectual and philosophical eruditions between him and Geir, his close
friend. Deeply personal, if not intensely intimate, details about the dark psychology
of his one true love, his wife Linda. Being a parent. A bad one. Having one
child and what she is about, how very early she is free and apart from him in
her judgments and needs and preferences. There is a second child. A third. No
wonder birth order matters. It has to. It’s “Your Struggle.”
New shoes! New shoes! New shoes! I have been out for the
second time in them. The first outdoors (Jan. 29) in the Asics Gel-Kinsei 5, a
neutral bomb of a shoe!
You forget the difference new shoes make. Must mean I’m back
in marathon-training mode. (Or could have as much to do with the Blizzard of ’15:
I neglected to pack my running clothes and my old Brooks Bangers when I was
tapped for an overnight emergency stay due to the surprise closing of the subways,
and I bought them at an athletic-wear store not far from my Times Square area
office building. Note to crowd haters: shop in the hours before a New York blizzard
hits. The combined forces of a paranoid media and power-mad despot politicians
keep people indoors. The usually jammed store was blissfully empty.)
Do yourself a favor and check out these beauties. If nothing
else, just a walk around the shoe store floor. Asics Gel-Kinsei 5. This longtime
Brooks believer is suddenly feeling like a convert!
Next: Running for Your Life: The Big Outdoors
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