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commitment to this project. Johnson once said to Boswell, “Why do you | commitment to this project. Johnson once said to Boswell, “Why do you | ||
write down my sayings?” | write down my sayings?” | ||
There is history in every crevice of the East End neighborhood; the fellows live nearby in a large house divided into condominiums with glimpses | |||
of the sun-spanked bay. In the backyard of their house, a used car, bought for | |||
summer use, died before a Labor Day in the late sixties, and people gathered around a hole dug in the ground by a bulldozer. The lapsed automobile was interred vertically with its windshield skyward. Norman was writing | |||
Of a Fire on the Moon, and wandered out from his studio on this sunny afternoon to witness the strange religious ceremony that he wrote about in the | |||
chapter titled “Burial by the Sea.” | |||