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...incident that sticks out in Baullock’s mind is when Johnson??s grandparents went out of town and Johnson decided to take it upon herself to repaint their bedroom...
...Johnson??s absence in the final left Patterson and Beckford as Taylor’s toughest competitors in the event. Beckford was the only collegiate athlete to beat Taylor head-to-head this season, but that race had occurred in March before the snow had even melted on the Harvard track...
...goes. In Johnson??s reports, the possible and the impossible are always made to hold hands. In Kabul, Afghanistan, he stays behind to witness the takeover by the new religious faction, and finds himself one of a few occupants of a sumptuous and largely abandoned hotel. “The new faction has outlawed all music, but they’re not bothered if I play the jazz program on the BBC, because, as a Westerner, I’m past all punishment, I can’t be saved, I’m going to hell...
...Luminous perfect phrases like “jocular enormity” stud the book like jewels (Johnson on the first atomic bomb test: “the orange fireball levitating amid its electric-blue halo”). The inventiveness, the eye for detail, and the understated irony of Johnson??s prose make for vibrant, rhythmic writing that would be compelling even without its off-center subjects...
...Sometimes he passes judgment. Unsurprisingly, he puts it best himself: “I want to float above the fray, want to be like Walt Whitman, ‘both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.’” Johnson??s only shortfall is the shortness of his output—I’d like to find some more strange places to send him to and see what happens. But Seek’s ending suggests the edges of America and beyond have left him in need...