{"id":8842,"date":"2013-04-20T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T17:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/20\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-songs-from-a-passage-in-mcguane\/"},"modified":"2013-04-20T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T17:56:57","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-songs-from-a-passage-in-mcguane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/20\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-songs-from-a-passage-in-mcguane\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Songs From a Passage in Thomas McGuane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a passage from Thomas McGuane, Nothing but Blue Skies<\/em>, Houghton-Mifflin, 1992, pp. 201-202, to which I have added hyperlinks.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He [Frank Copenhaver] turned on the radio and listened to an old song called "Big John"<\/a>: everybody falls down a mine shaft; nobody can get them out because of something too big to pry; Big John comes along and pries everybody loose but ends up getting stuck himself; end of Big John.  Frank guessed it was a story of what can happen to those on the top of the food chain.<\/span><\/p>\n

On to an oldies station and the joy of finding Bob Dylan: "You've got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend."<\/a> No one compares with this guy, thought Frank.  I feel sorry for the young people of today with their stupid fucking tuneless horseshit; that may be a generational judgment but I seriously doubt it.  Frank paused in his thinking , then realized he was suiting up for his arrival in Missoula.  In a hurricane of logging trucks, he heard, out of a hole in the sky the voice of Sam Cooke: "But I do know that I love you."<\/a>  Frank began to sweat.  "And I know that if you love me too, what a wonderful world this would be."<\/span><\/p>\n

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All the little questions. Will they lose interest when you go broke? Sam Cooke: "Give me water, my work is so hard."<\/a>  What work? Tough to believe both Sam Cooke and Otis Redding <\/a>are dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a passage from Thomas McGuane, Nothing but Blue Skies, Houghton-Mifflin, 1992, pp. 201-202, to which I have added hyperlinks. He [Frank Copenhaver] turned on the radio and listened to an old song called "Big John": everybody falls down a mine shaft; nobody can get them out because of something too big to pry; … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Songs From a Passage in Thomas McGuane”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,40,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dylan","category-literary-matters","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}