Comments on: If I Could Lend Him My Words http://annalemma.net/features/if-i-could-lend-him-my-words.html with Christopher Heavener Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:29:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: david erlewine http://annalemma.net/features/if-i-could-lend-him-my-words.html/comment-page-1#comment-617 david erlewine Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:10:11 +0000 http://annalemma.net/?p=1722#comment-617 "Oftentimes I would point at a donut and say, “What’s this one again?” just to awaken my dad’s donut voice." That line is a beauty. "Instead, my dad looked at the holes in his socks, nodded, and said, 'Just be good person. That all I care. Be good, and I proud. You promise?'" Sam, every story of yours has a moment like this where I feel like I should spend every second of my life trying to write something like it. "Baked goods do not forgive. They’re like the Japanese that way," (this line killed me, particularly given the history of Korea and Japan that many Americans don't know about) Sam, this story may be my favorite of yours yet. I keep saying that after every story of yours I read. Sort of Pavlovian (but, uh, not really) I guess. “Oftentimes I would point at a donut and say, “What’s this one again?” just to awaken my dad’s donut voice.”

That line is a beauty.

“Instead, my dad looked at the holes in his socks, nodded, and said, ‘Just be good person. That all I care. Be good, and I proud. You promise?’”

Sam, every story of yours has a moment like this where I feel like I should spend every second of my life trying to write something like it.

“Baked goods do not forgive. They’re like the Japanese that way,” (this line killed me, particularly given the history of Korea and Japan that many Americans don’t know about)

Sam, this story may be my favorite of yours yet. I keep saying that after every story of yours I read. Sort of Pavlovian (but, uh, not really) I guess.

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