"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

03 November 2015

Greatest.


The voice on the other side of the door said, “Come in.” 

A bluish haze of cigarette smoke wafted through the writing studio of perhaps America’s greatest living author. 

Jim Harrison sat behind a desk, smoking a cigarette, shirtless (due to a painful shingles outbreak), squinting one blind eye. 

His writer’s desk and bookshelves were visible nearby, all in a comfortable jumble. His actual desktop — not a computer desktop because Harrison famously writes only in longhand  — includes a small thermos of coffee, an ashtray, a yellow legal tablet and a bottle of red wine, in anticipation of his daily 3:30 p.m. cocktail hour. 

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