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...reminded of bath time as a child in my grandparents?? enormous tub. I would slide down on my back, submerge my whole body and then lurk there, grinning, until with luxurious slowness I let my stomach rise from the water. The smooth expanse looked like an island; I imagined my belly button as a lake. Each of my two knees would emerge in turn like mountains from the deep...
...pianist Chick Corea, one of his main inspirations. He shared other sources of his early inspiration, including the theme song for “The Beverly Hillbillies.” Fleck first heard the banjo at the age of four while watching reruns of the popular show at his grandparents?? home in Queens. The theme song features the banjo playing of Earl Scrubs. Fleck claims to have been immediately struck by the sound. Years later, after applying to a music and arts school, Fleck once again heard the sounds of the banjo when the movie...
...times to the point of oversaturation—but Schlink’s narrative is also touchingly sympathetic to the characters of this post-World War II odyssey.The novel’s protagonist, Peter Debauer, grew up with his mother in Germany, spending summers at his paternal grandparents?? home in Switzerland. He knew his father through photographs and stories that his grandparents told him; his mother informed him only that his father had been shot during the War. As a child, he kept his grandparents company while they edited novels for anthologies. When Debauer begins reading a submission...
...gods must be an ironic bunch. When I visited Mumbai, India, this June, the air was thick with humidity and heavy monsoon rains flooded the crowded streets. Yet even in my grandparents?? flat in the upscale suburb of Bandra—home to Bollywood’s glamorous film stars—low water pressure in the public pipeline meant that the plumbing system worked only two or three hours a day, often in the middle of the night. My grandparents have made do for years by adapting their cooking habits and keeping a bucket of water handy...
...topper: a red eye drive with his grandparents?? car that had him and two charitable roommates back in Cambridge by 7:00 a.m. on Sunday morning...