Re: bedtime with Daddy
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sun, 21 Nov 1999 12:52:54 -0500
At 5:00 PM +0000 on 11/21/1999, you wrote:
> But what about Bananafish? Out in the old
> log cabin, or by the camp fire's glow, was Pop
> in evidence with his book on his lap?
My parents, my entire family, were not readers, but I was insatiable.
As in your remark about "most ... fathers," my father was a big
reader of instructional material (manuals, get-rich-quick schemes).
People didn't read to me. I taught myself to do it. To this day, my
family still looks at me as a bookworm (that is a derogatory term in
my family), not having an idea about what makes me operate. Even the
few educated people in my family (one a relative with several
graduate degrees) read inspirational books and tracts of the sort
that send me running out of the room with my hair afire.
I think our milkman must have been a big reader.
--tim