Nostalgia
Even though these thoughts were off topic of the book, I could not help, through the story of ol Grover Lewis in the Magazine Writer, discover a new sense of looking at and feeling nostalgia. This was no ordinary realization, I feel that almost all nostalgia has this fake essence to it. I feel that, more so, now we tend to create false memories from the stories that are told and this sense of nostalgia really becomes more of like an expectation than a memory. Anyone who writes has to create this corralation between what they experienced and what you experienced. To look at an excerpt in particular, the end of this story on page 121, Hickey writes about Grover's funeral and how it was so damn cinematic. To say that anything is cinematic is kind of ironic to me. Yeah, Grover's life was "cinematic" in that it told a great story but his life would never be experienced the same after Hickey's words have described it from a third party perspective.
