Arnon Grunberg

Axe

Table

A bit of Salinger on this windy Monday in Amsterdam - Salinger, a name, that despite everything, well everything, should not be forgotten:

"In April of 1944, I was among some sixty American enlisted men who took a rather specialized pre-Invasion training course, directed by British Intelligence, in Devon, England. And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique, the sixty of us, in that there wasn't one good mixer in the bunch. We were all essentially letter-writing types, and when we spoke to each other out of the line of duty it was usually to ask somebody if he had any ink he wasn't using. When we weren't writing letters or attending classes, each of us went pretty much his own way Mine usually led me, on clear days, in scenic circles around the countryside. Rainy days, I generally sat in a dry place and read a book, often just an axe length away from a ping-pong table."

From: "For Esmé — With Love and Squalor."

Reading books, an axe length away from a ping-pong table, everything else that life has to offer is extra.

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