John Updike’s body died. Blessings and gratitude to you, Mr. Updike.
Here’s a picture of his family. I send Condolences.
He left quite a legacy.
Here’s the NY Times article.
A video interview in 1995 about Updike’s short story “a&p”
Interview on Charlie Rose starts 29 minutes and 58 seconds into the video. It’s about his novel Terrorist and about Iraq.
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
-John Updike
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. –John Updike
Amen.
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Wow — you are really cookin’ with the blog now! Glad to see it!
But would like to know what words you said that might make me dislike you. For the record, that won’t happen.
Thank you, Cindy.
Generally, the slur was about how people behave differently because of money. But I believe more in the integrity of people than the statement did. Except, there went my integrity, by saying something like that.
I agree with Updike, “The essential self is innocent.”
Thanks again.
the loss of John Updike makes me wonder if the literary world is being replenished at the same rate that it’s losing such great writers
Dear coffee,
We can hope. Perhaps we won’t find the current great ones until ten years from now.
P.S. I enjoy your site. My favorite thing about coffee is if you add it to chocolate, it makes the chocolate taste even better.
Thanks for stopping by.