This book summary is about a young man who was from a small town of Mc Cormick in South Carolina during the late 1940s and began his education in Columbia, South Carolina, until the age 15 years old, before moving to Washington, DC with his mother. I never imagined that I would make the accomplishments that I made in my life thus far, but they are very admirable.
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"Spoof is stronger than fiction" says For Better of For Worse humorist Lynn Johnston, and in Never Stand Behind A Loaded Horse, Leacock merit medallist Gordon Kirkland drives the point home with funny-bone accuracy. Kirkland’s syndicated newspaper column is no stranger to Canadian and US audiences, and in this premium collection.
From "Anna's Lovers" Our houses glow both from within and on the outside: their night lights and an almost perfect and wintry moon. The phrase "but for now" means among other things "making do," as if we had to settle for the bare minimum. In But for Now, Gordon Johnston presents poems where the mortal world is more than enough because there is more to it than the merely mortal and where it is possible to hear beyond the outmoded clanking of inherited religious vocabularies. These poems find moments of grace in chance occurrences and through a wide range of styles and methods, they choreograph the random casual events of our existence. Northrop Frye famously asked, "Where is here?" These poems instead ask, "When is now?" Engaged with worlds of waiting and of doing, with enduring and healing, But for Now celebrates music and noise, speech and silence, and asserts that for all the darkness at the edges, there is something shining at the centre of the painting.
We wake up each morning unaware that we have thousands of choices ahead of us. Each choice will be the hinge upon the next choice is made. Choosing right or wrong depends a lot on culture and upbringing. Thomas has been put in a position of having very few options as far as choice is concerned. An overbearing father and brother force their choices upon him. In essence, growing up as he did, he did not have the benefit of making his own choices and suffering the consequences either positive or negative. There was little in the way of a positive learning experience. He in a miasma of quandary, unsure of his ability to even survive. His mother is the only positive force in his life and she makes a final choice for him that will lock him into a box for years until a persistent friend ensures that he can choose his own destiny.
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