J P recovers.... SLOOOWLY-- and other writerly blog matters

Get over to Jameson Parker's to read the latest installment in his account, at times hilarious, always eloquent, sometimes horrifying account of his horse wreck and slow recovery. God, do I identify with him-- I am not as hurt and hope I never will be, but my Parkinson's can at times provide an analogy; and like him, I am a physical person (I only impersonate an intellectual) wondering how my poor body, once so obedient, got so damned OLD. The link will take you to the latest; put aside some time and, as bloggers say. Read The Whole Thing. And comment, and cheer him up or entertain him if you can.

A quote from the most recent installment:

"Doctors have to walk many fine lines: compassion and dispassion; warm encouragement and cold truth; diplomacy and bleak reality; the possible and the impossible; potential harm and potential benefit; others I know not of. This uncharacteristic skirting around a direct answer to a direct question rattled me, and for the first time it began to occur to me that I might be in more trouble than I realized, that perhaps certain parts of my previously always resilient and adaptable body might not be able to bounce back or adjust as they always had before."

Oh yeah...

Change of subject -- free associating mind goes from one serious writer/ blogger to another-- Michael Gruber, whose new novel will  be out within the month, reflects on the yawning cultural chasm in Western culture that opened just after my generation-- I appear in the comments. I realize I have many young readers, like the Peculiars and Moro, who from education, parents, reading, have no culture gap; like Gruber I think they are "outlyers".

One more thought: I have always said that I know more literate, historically- aware, art conscious scientists than I have known scientifically literate lit folks. Gruber was a biologist before he became first a ghost writer and then a uniquely original novelist. Though readers of this blog as well as its heroes tend to bridge all gaps and defy all stereotypes-- Classicist writer- actor- cowboys, liberal Catholic convert biologist gun nut thriller novelists, "and more and worse"-- itself a line from a woman who never fit a stereotype.

What say you?