Saturday commute lxix: what to read

  Living in the country, the 

  sociable, the game, and the

  primed and motivated qual-

  ities which lend themselves

  to fluent interactions are

  not always in play, where

  population, itself, is an

  abstraction. The same cap-

  abilities which bring them-

  selves to an afternoon swim

  are with us as we scan our

  library shelves with an eye

  for how to seize the day.

  I don't suppose this is al-

  ways understood by people as

  they sit down to write our

  books. I think the writers

  who are the most attuned to

  this, are our satirists.

  They realise, their impro-

  visation is a contraption

  for deflecting this paradox.