Quote for the day

"For the past two months, I've done a great deal of heavy drinking and fucking beautiful women."

Shelby Foote to Walker Percy, in late February of 1954

Rico says he's been reading Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life by C. Stuart Chapman, and he's finally (halfway through the book) at the point for which he got the damned book originally, Shelby's writing of his monumental Civil War.

Rico says that examinations of anyone's life, much less that of a writer, evokes nothing so much as that word used by V.I. Kydor Kropotkin in one of Rico's favorite (though all-but-unknown) films, The President's Analyst: Tedium... tedium... tedium...