The Keillor Reader by Garrison Keillor

Author:Garrison Keillor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

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DON GIOVANNI

My bread and butter was the good people of Lake Wobegon, but writing about good people is an uphill climb. Their industriousness, their infernal humility, their schoolmarmish sincerity, their earnest interest in you, their clichés falling like clockwork—it can be tiring to be around them. One wants them for neighbors, of course. But a dinner party with the righteous can be a long three hours. And so a man who was well brought up is naturally attracted to people who sit slugging down whiskey, blowing clouds of smoke, reminiscing about misspent lives—and without contrition! Alcoholic adventures cheerfully recalled, lubricious nights, ingenious larceny and graft, laws scoffed at, justice avoided, authority bamboozled. Scripture tells us not to sit in the seat of the scornful, but I have enjoyed sitting near those seats, close enough to catch what they have to say and to admire their adventurous spirit.

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