No one since Henry Miller has touched my heart, mind, soul, and sensibilities like Frank McCourt. Now that he’s passed (7/19/2009) videos of him show up everywhere online… That makes me happy, yet sad, but grateful because I get to see the man and hear his voice, and it rings so true… I love to hear him talk just as I love to read his words…
This clip reminds me of John Lennon’s lyric… “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” from the song, Beautiful Boy. While I read Angela’s Ashes, Tis, and Teacher Man, I was obsessed… My private joke to myself was, “Frank, you are the master of the never ending sentence! Only an Irishman could get a way with that.”
