Steinbeck Quotes
Happy Birthday, John Steinbeck.
Mr. Steinbeck has given us some wonderful quotes. The first in the toon is from Cannery Row… and obvious choice from Ryan. Randie’s offering shows us that J.S. didn’t always take himself so seriously.
Happy Birthday, John Steinbeck.
Mr. Steinbeck has given us some wonderful quotes. The first in the toon is from Cannery Row… and obvious choice from Ryan. Randie’s offering shows us that J.S. didn’t always take himself so seriously.
Well, I’m stuck here in Minnesota. Amtrak has cancelled both legs of the trip due to a train derailment in Washington state. The second piece of bad new is that I’ve caught cold.
I’m going to wait and see if I am fit to travel and fly to San Jose or Sacramento on Thursday instead. I do want to be there on First Friday at the Cartoonery, but I also want to be able to enjoy the trip.
John, what big ears you had?
Like the little sailboat detail in the back.
Not like so much a cursed seagull perching overhead.
Joe,
Much luck with your journey. If you swing over by way of Sacramento (me, here, now), you’ll be able to take in the wonder of our new billion-plus dollar terminal (under contruction). I’m likely to be heading down earlier in the week, weather permitting, so will likely only be seeing you down in Brig’s Salad bowl come Friday, if the dice roll favorably.
As with yesterday, if you didn’t catch it. There is the bright side that you weren’t a part of that derailment. So, speaking of a cold. Can you convert your vacation time to paid sick time?
I wonder if Ryan has thought about what leaving Steinbeck country will mean.
stick,
Thanks for the heads up on the construction at Sacramento. I think San Jose will be my best choice. I’ve already accounted for my two weeks vacation. The real pain will be getting reimbursed for the part of the trip that has been cancelled. The unused tickets have to be sent back by certified mail. I’m in a use-it-or-lose-it situation as far as vacation goes. I have too much vacation time and I have to use some of it up by the end of March.
If I had only heard the quote and not its author, I would have ascribed it to Mark Twain. Sadly, he is right about many of us, but not all. To some, the measure of success is a wealth of good friends, the esteem of one’s peers and the love of one’s family.
As far as quotes go, here’s one of my own:
“Learn what you are taught, teach what you have learned.”
Joe… RATS! What unfortunate events!!! I do hope that you are able to salvage what you can of your time off. I would love to see you at First Friday BUT I understand… you do what you can… and be safe traveling! That is what’s most important! I am not going anywhere.
Kona… I like your last sentence. A wealth of friends… esteem and love of family. I think THAT is golden! I have just had many of my family here up from SoCal… and it was lovely… AND Mom brought me a bag of KONA coffee from her recent trip to Hawaii! Woo hooo!!
If you leave a place with the idea that you will return… it takes the sting out of leaving. If you say goodbye with the idea that you will meet again, it takes some of the sorrow from the parting.
Teaching and learning… it is a big part of life. What you get at the end of a life full of said activities is wisdom.
Got through to Amtrak Customer Service. They can’t guarantee anything before the 3rd of March.
Went online and booked a flight via Southwest for Thursday arriving in San Jose @10:40am.
That should give me enough time to get over this cold and have some fun!
Beetles,
Steinbeck wouldn’t recognize Cannery Row for all its commercialism.
Joe,
In a way, glad to hear that your bosses make you use your vacation time. Out here in Cal, the state is hugely weighed down with pension costs. Word is that cops and firefighters out here have a common practice of building up enormous amounts of vacation time and then taking a lump sum pay-out in their last year on the job. Very sneaky, as it kicks up their already very hight annual pay even higher, and pensions are based upon the level of pay in their final year. So they get a big pension boost that lasts the rest of their lives.
Oh, and, for those who can’t take direction in life, there is always experience to be had.
after first seeing steinbeck plaza over a decade ago, it dawned on me that now what monterey needed was a spot honoring a favorite comic strip artist from my childhood (who happens to be buried in the monterey cemetary, across the street from dennis the menace park), jimmy hatlo (little iodine, they’ll do it every time).
Monterey needs a Cartoon Art Museum. Non? I would LOVE to do something like this! There are so many cartoonists who have lived in this area… it’s fee-nom-inable! Dennis the Menace Park isn’t in Monterey for nuttin’.
Yes, Stick, I agree… the Row is overly commercialized. There should have been more attention to history and preservation of said history. Sigh. Instead there are tons of shops and the like. But, I have to say, I was in Cannery Row yesterday with my visiting family, and I was able to do some wine-tasting… and that was fun… but wine-tasting has nothing really to do with The Row… but has everything to do with Monterey County.
Surprised I didn’t spot the Cannery Row quote, but then again I’ve only read it once so far. Happy Birthday John Steinbeck!
Is that statue real?
“I remember about the rabbits, George.”
Nothing brilliant, but I’ll always have a soft spot for ‘Of Mice and Men’.
Meghan: Compared to the original, I think Brig might have gone for humorous exaggeration… 🙂
Wow, I was at at Cannery Row last summer, and passed through that very plaza with my wife, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law, and somehow completely missed the Steinbeck bust. I failed in my pilgrimage!
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
I can only plead ignorance of the area, having somehow missed the obligatory reading of “Cannery Row” in high school — perhaps because we read “The Jungle” instead . . .
*HA!* I loved that quote about writers! Serves them right. All those writers with their pompous attitudes and opinions stuffed with two dollar nouns bolstered up by dime-a-dozen adjectives. I’m glad I’M not a writer or I’d be very… uh, very…
… Hey! Wait a sec!
Meghan… Chapter 23… Doc philosophizing over a beer about Mac & the boys and their recent, um, actions. I don’t wish to spoil it for those who have yet to read it.
Pete… yah… them writers…. !
Thanks for the link Astragali… nice pic… I did exaggerate them ears… can’t help it… s’what I do. I had fun doin’ caricatures in my sketchbook of actors/actresses at The Oscars.
DCS… poop. It ain’t always been there… but it was there last year. There’s a rather nice sculpture of Doc Ricketts at the site where he was killed by a train…. just down a little on Cannery Row. Fitting for him to die there on The Row. Did you at least see that one? (I feel it’s the better one… people always leave Doc flowers).
Dada…. sigh… that story makes me cry…. hard.
Definitely check out the 1939 film version. Lon Chaney Jr gives one of the absolute best performances of his career, and if you think the book is sad you’ll be bawling when this version of Lennie dies.