Monday, September 15, 2025

Professor Jabberwocky's Fear Of JOHN CHEEVER

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"The thousands of nights
   I have spent on sofas."
 

This quote
gives me the eerie feeling
that the ghost of John Cheever
is looking through
my bedroom window

To refer to the 
is to be redundant
 

Anyone who wants
to be a writer
should read 
 from cover-to-cover
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4 comments:

  1. Inspired by a previous page you did on JOHN CHEEVER,
    I read The Falconer and it is classic American Literature.

    Mr. Cheever was a sexual animal and a devout Catholic.

    Now, it behooves me to paraphrase your comment
    about John's shame/guilt that he enjoyed
    sex with men:

    That shame and guilt was the cauldron
    that stoked the fire of his genius.

    Had he shamelessly accepted his homosexual pleasures,
    he would have been a mediocre novelist.

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    1. Oliverio says Thank You...for approximating
      and improving the comment I had made

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  2. If there was no GUILT in this world,
    there would be nothing but crappy fiction.

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    1. Those words deserve to be in bold print
      but I hope no suspects me
      of having written them

      -Oliverio

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