AL has been posting rust and dust from West Texas recently, so today we thought to expand our coverage of the American vehicle vernacular.
Seeing the Polo wagon reminded me of a ditty my father sang to me, decades ago, as we walked across the McGill University campus, where some undergraduates were tossing a football around. HHB would have remembered it from the 1930s, though the reference to a swimming "tank" possibly dates it even further back.
"Football, baseball,
Swimming in the tank
We are the boys with the money in the bank!"
Trucks, cars, highways, landscape, good writing. "You cannot travel on the path, before you have become the Path itself."
PHB
- autoliterate
- Brooklin, Maine, United States
- We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.
Friday, January 4, 2019
Ford F-350 SuperDuty "We are the boys with the money in the bank!"
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