Garrison Keillor

Lake Wobegon days

Some of my favorite lines, more for my own reference than anybody else:

"Odd as it is, and (like a misplaced parenthetical comment that makes no sense when later he said, "Don't darling. Please don't. Please Marie," but she went ahead and did it anyway) daunting..."

"A boy on his way to school! A good boy! Being careful to slam the door shut behind him, he loosens the giant icicle and it's point, sharp as an ice pick, slams all the way through his skull and down to his heart, the huge butt of the missile splitting his head like a tomato."

"...disguising ourselves as quiet modest people until we could reveal our true identity as Italians...We weren't who we thought we were, we were the Keillorinis!"

Bobby Krcatovich

Classic Keillor.

Some of my favorite lines, more for my own reference than anybody else:

"Odd as it is, and (like a misplaced parenthetical comment that makes no sense when later he said, "Don't darling. Please don't. Please Marie," but she went ahead and did it anyway) daunting..."

"A boy on his way to school! A good boy! Being careful to slam the door shut behind him, he loosens the giant icicle and it's point, sharp as an ice pick, slams all the way through his skull and down to his heart, the huge butt of the missile splitting his head like a tomato."

"...disguising ourselves as quiet modest people until we could reveal our true identity as Italians...We weren't who we thought we were, we were the Keillorinis!"

Nick Perronteau

4/5
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I’m not one to fall into the trap of nostalgia, but boy did this take me back to the days of sitting in the rear passenger seats, road tripping to my grandparents (or wherever), and GK’s smooth stream of a voice leaking out of my dad’s car speakers. Simple unimportant memories, all the more important due to that very fact. I can’t wait to read more of the sleepy town that is Lake Wobegon

Lake Wobegon days

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