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| Don't be a Terminal Tugboater |
Looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday night at store at 7pm. Please arrive promptly, we have a big agenda. For the first 30 minutes or so Nick O'Connell, founder of Cask Force, will be on hand to lead us through a tasting of some specially selected whiskeys. Cask Force is your forward thinking whiskey and spirit negociant, sourcing barrels from all over the world and re-using them to create limited edition, unique products.
We also have a great book to discuss. For a little homework to help with the discussion, Ralph Blair sends along this link to an article on Tourette's syndrome from the London Review of Books.
See you soon! Bill
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ReplyDeleteFYI once you post a comment you are not allowed (by the app) to edit it, so you must delete it and retype, more carefully. DN
Delete"spirit negociant" I confess I had to look that one up. I can barely restrain myself from screaming "eat me bailey" click, click buzz.
ReplyDeleteRe Tugboater: "I've been reading Jonathan Lethem, and this passage on "tugboating" from "Motherless Brooklyn" caught my eye. It's something critics (often accused of Tourette's-like behavior) and writers, never mind Lethem's Tourettian "Terminal Tugboater," are prone to:
ReplyDelete"Any time you pushed your luck, said too much, overstayed a welcome, or overestimated the usefulness of a given method or apporach, you were guilty of having tugged the boat. Tugboating was most of all a dysfunction of wits and storytellers, and a universal one: Anybody who thought himself funny would likely tug a boat here or there. Knowing when a joke or verbal gambit was right at its limit, quitting before the boat had been tugged, that was art (and it was a given that you wanted to push it as near as possible--missing an opportunity to score a laugh was deeply lame, an act undeserving of a special name)."
Heller McAlpin, NBCC Member and current board candidate
http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/tugboating posted 2007