I woke up to a message from the person I am working on the book with telling me to read THE SWIMMER 

“Published in the New Yorker in 1964, John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” is an elegant and surreal retelling of the myth of Narcissus stretched to encompass an entire class of men: old money; the WASPs.”

I woke up to a message from the person I am working on the book with telling me to read THE SWIMMER 

“Published in the New Yorker in 1964, John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” is an elegant and surreal retelling of the myth of Narcissus stretched to encompass an entire class of men: old money; the WASPs.”

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The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

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I love how the story illustrates how we create to avoid harsh realities and the inevitable confrontation with loss and regret as those illusions fade. Have you read it? I don’t wanna spoil it for for you