De Amerikaanse schrijver Dave Eggers werd geboren op 12 maart 1970 in Chicago. Zie ook alle tags voor Dave Eggers op dit blog.
Uit: You Shall Know Our Velocity!
“When?” said Hand.
“A week from now,” I said.
“The seventeenth?”
“Right.”
“This seventeenth.”
“Right.””Jesus.”
“Can you get the week off?”
“I don’t know,” Hand asked. “Can I ask a dumb question?”
“What?”
“Why not this summer?”
“Because.”
“Or next fall?”
“Come on.”
“What?”
“I’ll pay for it if we go now,” I said. I knew Hand would say yes because for fivemonths we hadn’t said no. There had been some difficult requests but we hadn’t said no.
“And you owe me,” I added.
“What? For — Oh Jesus. Fine.”
“Good.””For how long again?” he asked.
“How long can you get off?” I asked.”
Probably a week.” I knew he would do it. Hand would have quit his job if theyrefused the time off. He had a decent arrangement now, as a security supervisor on acasino on the river under the Arch, but for a while, in high school, he’d been the NumberTwo-ranked swimmer in all of Wisconsin, and he expected that kind of glory goingforward. He’d never focused again like he’d focused then, and now he was a dabbler, withsome experience as a recording engineer, some in car alarms, some in weather futures(true, long story), some as a carpenter — we’d actually worked on one summer gigtogether, a porch on an enormous place — a gingerbread-looking place on Lake Geneva –but he left any job where he wasn’t learning or when his dignity was anywherecompromised.”
Dave Eggers (Chicago, 12 maart 1970)
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