{"id":41966,"date":"2012-11-16T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=41966"},"modified":"2013-02-02T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T21:04:25","slug":"what-we%e2%80%99re-loving-secretariat-vonnegut-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/what-we%e2%80%99re-loving-secretariat-vonnegut-law\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Loving: Secretariat, Vonnegut, Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/secretariat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/secretariat-300x227.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"secretariat\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/secretariat-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/secretariat.png 578w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To my own amazement I have been reading a handbook entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1590312325\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1590312325&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes To Win<\/em><\/a>, by one David Berg, Esquire. For a manual published by the American Bar Association, <em>The Trial Lawyer <\/em>is extremely entertaining. (Berg on cross-examination: \u201cIf you are funny, be funny. If you are smart, be smart. If you are neither, consider the judiciary.\u201d) My favorite chapter title is \u201cVoir Diring for Dollars.\u201d Even though you may expect never to conduct a voir dire, or depose a witness, or file a motion, Berg tells you how to do these things in such plain English that you feel you\u00a0<em>could<\/em>, if the need arose. He even makes it sound like fun. I just wish the ABA had provided a brown paper wrapper&#8230;\u00a0<strong>\u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Armistice Day remembered this week, I\u2019ve been rereading one of my favorite war poets: Rupert Brooke. That said, while he is now best known for his World War I sonnets, I prefer his earlier writing, which reveals a more cynical, vitriolic writer.<!--more--> In \u201cMenelaus and Helen,\u201d Brooke envisions an aged and gruesome Helen who \u201cweeps, gummy-eyed and impotent; \/ Her dry shanks twitch at Paris\u2019 mumbled name.\u201d He reserves equal scorn for his contemporaries, from the \u201cnoise of a fool in mock distress\u201d who came and \u201cquacked\u201d beside him in a tranquil wood to the girl who left him for an older man, envisioning her future of<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A foul sick fumbling dribbling body and old,<br \/> When his rare lips hang flabby and can&#8217;t hold<br \/> Slobber, and you&#8217;re enduring that worst thing,<br \/> Senility&#8217;s queasy furtive love-making.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u2014Charlotte Goldney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I mistrust books of collected letters, because I figure that even the most brilliant writer has surely produced a thousand dull excrescences for every \u201cBirmingham Jail.\u201d But the recent publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385343752\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0385343752&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kurt Vonnegut: Letters<\/em><\/a>, edited by Dan Wakefield, humbles me a smidge. Wakefield includes the big important correspondences, certainly, but the deep cuts are just as cutting, and wry, and truthful. From unsolicited advice to Norman Mailer (\u201cListen: I have an anecdote about you which you should use in your next book about you.\u201d) to a letter for his alma mater\u2019s alumni magazine (\u201cMy experiences at Cornell were freakish in the extreme . . . \u201d), there is a remarkable dearth of disappointment for so  vast a collection. No matter how sardonically Vonnegut resists apotheosis, the brilliance of <em>Letters<\/em> indicates that the man who called himself \u201can American fad\u2014of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop\u201d will remain canon fodder for some time.\u00a0<strong>\u2014Samuel Fox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Secretariat sealed his 1973 Triple Crown victory in a poetic thirty-one-length victory at the Belmont Stakes, thousands in the crowd, from track junkies to complete neophytes, wept.\u00a0Lawrence Scanlan\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/thehorsegodbuilt\/LawrenceScanlan\" target=\"_blank\">The Horse God Built<\/a><\/em> makes the idea of grown men and women shedding tears over a horse race seem perfectly reasonable.\u00a0Scanlan does an excellent job of rendering all the power, glory, and, most importantly, emotion that thoroughbreds charging around a dirt oval can inspire both man and beast.\u00a0<strong>\u2014Graham Rogers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The past few weeks have been quite a whirlwind, what with Sandy, Athena, and Romney\/Ryan sweeping through. At demanding times like these, I always turn to the Canadian writer Alistair MacLeod, who has been a beacon of transcendence since I stumbled upon\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393341186\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0393341186&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Island<\/em><\/a>, his 2000 story collection, at a used bookstore in Montpelier, Vermont. Whether I reread one of the stories in that collection, or sit down and savor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375726659\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0375726659&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>No Great Mischief<\/em><\/a>, MacLeod\u2019s words, as powerful as a Gaelic song, and his isolated characters, all with a strong sense of history and community, never fail to move me. As one character states in\u00a0<em>Mischief<\/em>,\u00a0\u201cMusic is the lubricant of the poor all over the world. In all the different languages.\u201d\u00a0We are in this long fight together, and we should never forget it.\u00a0<strong>\u2014Justin Alvarez<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my own amazement I have been reading a handbook entitled The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes To Win, by one David Berg, Esquire. For a manual published by the American Bar Association, The Trial Lawyer is extremely entertaining. (Berg on cross-examination: \u201cIf you are funny, be funny. If you are smart, be smart. 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