Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails by Anthony Swofford

Author:Anthony Swofford [SWOFFORD, ANTHONY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography / Military, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN: 9781455506729
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2012-06-05T04:00:00+00:00

Since you have made it “Big Time,” I am no longer dazed at your treatment of family. You should be embarrassed at not calling Granny and ashamed about James’s books. [I was delayed in returning signed copies of Jarhead to a cousin of mine.] Your mother will take exception, as usual. You seem to gloat at being an arrogant, self-centered person exhibiting the lowest level of responsibility. Why would your time be more valuable than theirs?

Love, Dad

Perhaps I should have called my grandmother and said, “Thanks, Granny, but I’d rather not receive an award from your neo-Confederate organization.”

Sometimes silence speaks wonders, even to your sweet, sweet-tea-drinking granny.

I should’ve returned those books to my cousin James sooner, but I didn’t. I’m unorganized. I lose stuff. I don’t write things down. I miss appointments. I piss people off. It has nothing to do with any success, or any sums of money. It’s just who I am. When I was a dirt-poor college student subsisting on ramen and PBR I behaved exactly the same.

None of this makes me arrogant or self-centered. But if your father thinks you are arrogant and self-centered, you are.

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