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Dave Eggers includes "Well I Wonder" and Morrissey references in a story
posted by davidt on Thursday August 07 2003, @07:00AM

 Tanner writes:

The Guardian recently published a short fiction piece on their website by Dave Eggers (author of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) called "Something Might Plummet. Something Might Soar." In it the character listens to "Well I Wonder" and there's also a bit more commentary on Morrissey. It is definitely a good read.

If you do not want to read the whole thing here are the specific references.

"Your Toshiba Walkman is clipped to your shorts in back and you've got your Smiths mix on. You've fast-forwarded to Well I Wonder and you swerve a little to prove to the song that you love it. Why does this song speak to you? You are not sure. Maybe it's that, like Mr Morrissey, you aren't sure yet whether this is the world you were intended for."
 
"You'll wait a minute or two more, while you rewind Well I Wonder. The song only becomes at all meaningful, of course, after seven consecutive plays; but even then it's not even close to enough. Between seven and twenty plays one begins to grasp its power, but not until you've reached thirty do you pay it the respect it's due; only then have you earned the right to listen while swaying, to listen while lying on the lawn of Mrs G's house, only then have you walked a mile in the shoes of Mr Morrissey, great poet in the tradition of Keats and Yeats and possibly even Roddy Frame."

 
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    And this is a good thing? (Score:0, Insightful)
    Break Up The Family, and let's begin to live our lives...

    It is over! I really appreciate everything David has done to keep Morrissey's career alive, but the man can no longer write moving lyrics. He's old, and is not aging well.

    Get out of the chat room, and life your life.

    It is over!
    Anonymous -- Thursday August 07 2003, @07:37AM (#71006)
    Shoddy Roddy (Score:0)
    "Possibly even Roddy Frame"? What's that all about then?
    Anonymous -- Thursday August 07 2003, @08:31AM (#71015)
    Dave Eggers... (Score:1, Insightful)
    I heard Dave Eggers read this story in Palo Alto. It was dreadful-- the story goes on to employ fecal matter as a plot device, effectively ruining whatever effect he intended with his Smiths allusion. Dave Eggers is the epitome of the Overrated Young Novelist. He might, though, have a future as a youth counselor or remedial English teacher.
    Anonymous -- Thursday August 07 2003, @10:32AM (#71031)
      I hope Jack Kerouac dies. (Score:1, Insightful)
      It's a sad comment on literature when people like David Eggers, David Foster Wallace, and Douglas Coupland are heralded as the great new generation of writers.

      Completely unmoving minds.

      It all began to fall apart with the beat poets.

      You will not be wrong if you blame it on the beat poets.
      Anonymous -- Thursday August 07 2003, @02:45PM (#71060)
      i miss 'smarter feller' (Score:1)
      a comic strip eggers authored in one of the bay area weeklies several years ago.
      thirsty fists <thirsty_fists@yahoo.com> -- Thursday August 07 2003, @03:44PM (#71065)
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       "world's ugliest boy"
        ah touching (Score:0)
        I thought it was quite a moving lil' tribute... The Smiths and a walkman go together like PB&J. Mix in the scent of fresh grass clippings, and you've pretty much got my life from age 12-15.

        The Roddy Frame reference at the end made me laugh... surely he can't be serious!

        The rest of you dopes oughta loosen up a bit.

        easymeat.
        Anonymous -- Thursday August 07 2003, @08:23PM (#71088)
        • Re:ah touching by The Other Jesus (Score:1) Friday August 08 2003, @02:28AM
          Well, I DO Wonder... (Score:1)
          Ah, just last week I was filling out PrettyVacant's questionaire and noted "Well, I Wonder" as having always been 1 of my favourite songs by The Smiths.
          J. Razor -- Friday August 08 2003, @09:17AM (#71154)
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           I'm Alone
            Personally I dont know who Dave watsisface is.. (Score:0)
            but the comment about Well I Wonder meaning nothing to you until you are 30?
            It was a track that always passed me by until about 6 months ago I am 37
            Anonymous -- Friday August 08 2003, @03:08PM (#71182)

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