Truth Like the Sun by Jim Lynch

Author:Jim Lynch [Lynch, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Literary, Historical
ISBN: 9780307958686
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2012-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

ROGER WAS SHOUTING at more than a hundred students eating lunch on the brick steps of Red Square while his young volunteers passed out Vote for the Old Guy! pamphlets.

“Seattle’s a big city now, but it’s still ridiculously young, if you think about it,” he said, reheating one of his grandfather’s minilectures. “In the grand scheme of things, it’s been around about a week. Seven days ago it was a few thousand Indians and fir trees growing right down to the tidal flats. Six days ago, a persuasive alcoholic doctor coaxed people into trekking out here from the East. Five days ago, downtown burned and had to be rebuilt. Four days ago, we threw a big fair on this campus to exploit the gold rush in the Yukon. Three days ago, we became the airplane manufacturing capital of the world. Two days ago, we built the Needle and threw another audacious fair. Yesterday, we built too many skyscrapers and became a hip high-tech hub. Today, we’re an overcrowded city that has the second-worst traffic in the country and a housing market that’s too expensive for normal people.”

He bowed as hesitant applause broke out. “Our current mayor treats this university as if it were its own sovereign nation, a place to be feared and ignored. I see it as the future.” He also saw that he was losing them, some walking away, others talking among themselves or flipping open cell phones. “Ten or twenty years from now, some of you will be running this city,” he continued desperately. “Problem is, the city needs your help now. It needs your imagination and your idealism and your common sense—even if you haven’t cornered the market on that yet.”

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