Catalina Express Silhouette + Philip Roth Quote [CBP #5]

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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest.

Its power arises from the authority and audacity

with which the impersonation is pulled off.

Philip Roth

The Art of Fiction

© Oliverio

One of the bespectacled gentlemen 
looked at me and said:

You're reading the PARIS REVIEW
on the Catalina Express.
You must be a very lonely person.

It behooved me to buy him a drink.

He told me he taught
Comparative Literature
at Rutgers University
in New Jersey.

I told him I had
a Masters Degree from 
the University of
Literary Pretension.

Thankfully,
that ended 
the conversation.

My next Catalina page is  here.  

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