[Bananafish] Reluctant Joy

[Daniel Moore]

I was reading a John O'Hara novella the other day ("The Girl on the
Baggage Truck") and I realized that I had been inadvertently
approaching the end of it when I only meant to read a few pages. I saw
the two star-crossed sort-of-lovers at equilibrium, with good things
potentially to come, and realized that there were so few pages left
that something tragic was about to happen. It's a weird,
semi-clairvoyant feeling.

Regards,
Dan

On 2/16/07, Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE
<daniel.yocum at peterson.af.mil> wrote:
> Have you ever read a book and realized, just in time, that there was only a
> page or so left, and you couldn't bear to read them or not read them?
> nerves of steal or a cold cold heart, like a birth and a funeral at the same
> time.