As Max Saw It by Louis Begley

Author:Louis Begley [Begley, Louis]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780307775948
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2010-12-14T13:00:00+00:00

MAX KNOWS that many years have passed since a treatise examining the intellectual foundations of contract law has been published by a common law scholar. He thinks he can write such a book—a short work, openly speculative in nature, free of academic jargon and the apparatus of footnotes. The reconstruction of the house in Billington has reached a stage at which it is quite possible to think of spending a sabbatical year there in comfort. He can imagine no place where he would prefer to write—lifting his eyes from the text to stare at the empty sky. Reference materials can be shipped to him by the Law School library as needed, or he will make quick expeditions to Cambridge. Camilla agrees; she has been urging Max to spread his wings. The Fogg is good about rearranging her schedule. She will need to spend only two nights each week at Highland Terrace. With the purchase of a Volvo station wagon, chosen despite Charlie’s protest that its name and plum-red color make him think of a vulva, they become a two-car family. The book advances slowly, but Max grows fond of following his thoughts where they lead. The sentences he sets down on paper to express them seem becoming; he rejoices at each small success. When he rereads the text in the spring, he concludes that what he has done is worthy of being continued. He negotiates an indefinite extension of his leave. It occurs to him that he might dedicate his book to the memory of Cousin Emma as well as to Camilla. The former gave him the freedom to write in perfect conditions, the latter his new self-confidence.

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