After reading today’s excerpt in the NYT Magazine, I’m very much looking forward to reading Christopher Buckley’s memoir, Losing Mum and Pup. It’s quite a family of letters when the son despairs of having written only 14 books, becasue the father wrote more than 50 to complement 45 volumes of columns in his day job.
But I epsecially loved this quote from Thomas Carlyle, which son says described father perfectly, forming “the solopsist’s definitive credo:”
Let me have my own way in everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
Well, even we solopsists need words to live by.
