tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post1506231383031190464..comments2022-10-07T19:17:35.929-04:00Comments on Reading Richard Rohmer: Brian Busbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-8978752517715256222014-03-09T17:12:40.023-04:002014-03-09T17:12:40.023-04:00Slowpokes? Hey, I've got a several 19th-centur...Slowpokes? Hey, I've got a several 19th-century Presbyterian Canadian novels to read for my next <i>CNQ</i> column - and I actually get paid for that.<br /><br />I'll say this, the pace of life was much slower back then.<br /><br />Yes, let's do <i>Red Periscope</i> next. But when will we get to Rohmer's non-fiction works? Or is the question really whether we should read them at all?<br /><br />Don't hate me. I know how much we're all looking forward to <i>Practice and Procedure Before the Ontario Highway Transport Board</i>.<br />Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-11598217117383507032014-03-08T20:00:04.179-05:002014-03-08T20:00:04.179-05:00Yep. Never came up. Ever for a guy, that's a...Yep. Never came up. Ever for a guy, that's a pretty hands-off attitude about wedding planning. <br /><br />Red Periscope next, right? I'll give you and Stan time to catch up ya' slowpokes. I have other stuff to read.<br /><br />But as you make your way though the Stratton section of Balls, ask yourself: "Wouldn't this make more sense if an oil company executive was doing it, rather than the Vice President of the United States?" There's a romantic restaurant meal in London during Stratton's secret mission that makes you think, "I'll bet if Dick Cheney was eating oysters with some babe, word would get out."Chris Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925214622987881225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-24522562505072573382014-03-08T18:41:46.121-05:002014-03-08T18:41:46.121-05:00Sam Harris disappears? Rohmer has balls. Not many ...Sam Harris disappears? Rohmer has balls. Not many writers would let such a captivating character go. Maybe he'll be back in <i>Red Periscope</i>.<br /><br />Since it's the reason for his dismissal, I may as well bring up the whole matter of what Rohmer calls his "Jewishness". Harris is an intelligent and inquisitive guy, but I wonder about his dad, "the famous Chicago heart surgeon, Augustus Harris." Augustus marries Elizabeth Mark in 1941, two years after she arrives in Chicago from her German home. It's only after son Sam is born, in 1942, that he learns that his wife is Jewish.<br /><br />Rohmer's explanation:<br /><br />"At no time had he [Augustus] asked her about her religion or ethnic background and, for fear of losing him, she had not volunteered the information that she was Jewish." <br /><br />So, nothing. No interest at all in her life and family. No concern for his bride's parents back in Germany; there is a war, after all. <br /><br />Hey, you never mention your folks. They okay?<br /><br />Nope, best not mention it. <br /><br />Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.com