Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Tie It To The Earth

This, from Jonah Goldberg’s elegy at his father’s memorial service:

Indeed, it’s one of the things which bothered him so much about overly theoretical writing in general. Often, when I would show him something wonkish I had written, he would say, “tie it to the earth more. It needs ballast. It’s floating away.”

His dad sounds like such a great guy. I hope to be such to my own little boy one day.

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