The Book of Love by Roger Rosenblatt

Author:Roger Rosenblatt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

LIFE IS A PICNIC, you said. I said, the hell it is. But you insisted. Life is a picnic, with sandwiches and chips, on a grassy hill, under a tree, with Coke and beer, and chocolate chip cookies, and oatmeal raisin, too. Music is carried up from the village—the theme song from Picnic, now that you mention it—and everyone is chatting and laughing, everyone being the two of us. You know? says the girl. I think life is a picnic. You know? says the boy. I think you’re right.

Not enough is made of happiness, you said. I said, Are you serious? But, to make your point, you indicated the geese fluttering in the road, and the sea, which you described as rearing up like horses. You breathed in the brine, which invaded your hair. You sang “Younger Than Springtime,” and urged me to sing along with you, until I gave in, and we belted the song as if we were a pair of Technicolor sweethearts in a Rodgers and Hammerstein show. They gave us a room in Barbados that had an unimpeded view of the hotel Dumpster. It doesn’t get any better than this, you said.

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