From the daily archives:
by Jonathan Sanchez
It felt good leaving the house that morning. Summer had finally broken. The heavy, humid haze had finally packed up and left, like a besieging army saying To hell with it, loading up the ships and heading home to the wives and fiancées.
And my bike was running great. I had put a new cassette on it a week earlier, and the drivetrain had taken a few rides to accept the alien organ, but now the chain was running smooth, no longer catching on
the new gears.
Thursday’s flurry of words is a dose of the past. We start in Boston, one of America’s most historic cities, where the financially strapped Globe has found a way to stay alive. This news coincides with the Red Sox beating the Yanks seven times in seven tries this season -– the last time that happened they won all 14 of their meetings, opened Fenway Park and took the World Series. Here’s hoping that never happens again. Now let’s zip down to New York. Thomas Paine’s funeral may only have attracted six attendees, but 200 years later his writings continue to attract and influence the tenets of social democracy. Peter Dougherty wants to modernize university presses. Samuel Johnson was not that disagreeable; it could have been his S&M lifestyle. The “In Case You Missed It” department completes our trip in time, as David Masiel delves into the past sexual exploits of merchant seamen. He reminds us that truth is second to a good story. — Andrew Geer (devoted Yankee fan)
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