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				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 8, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Reminds me of The Sun Also Rises.




“Hello, Robert,” I said. “Did you come in to cheer me up?”


“Would you like to go to South America, Jake?” he asked.


“No.”


“Why not?”


“I don’t know. I never wanted to go. Too expensive. You can see all the South Americans you want in Paris anyway.”


“They’re not the real South Americans.”


“They look awfully real to me.”


I had a boat train to catch with a week’s mail stories, and only half of them written.


“Do you know any dirt?” I asked.


“No.”


“None of your exalted connections getting divorces?”


“No; listen, Jake. If I handled both our expenses, would you go to South America with me?”


“Why me?”


“You can talk Spanish. And it would be more fun with two of us.”


“No,” I said, “I like this town and I go to Spain in the summer-time.”


“All my life I’ve wanted to go on a trip like that,” Cohn said. He sat down. “I’ll be too old before I can ever do it.”


“Don’t be a fool,” I said. “You can go anywhere you want. You’ve got plenty of money.”


“I know. But I can’t get started.”


“Cheer up,” I said. “All countries look just like the moving pictures.”


But I felt sorry for him. He had it badly.


“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”


“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”


“I’m not interested in bull-fighters. That’s an abnormal life. I want to go back in the country in South America. We could have a great trip.”


“Did you ever think about going to British East Africa to shoot?”


“No, I wouldn’t like that.”


“I’d go there with you.”


“No; that doesn’t interest me.”


“That’s because you never read a book about it. Go on and read a book all full of love affairs with the beautiful shiny black princesses.”


“I want to go to South America.”


He had a hard, Jewish, stubborn streak.


“Come on down-stairs and have a drink.”


“Aren’t you working?”


“No,” I said. We went down the stairs to the café on the ground floor. I had discovered that was the best way to get rid of friends. Once you had a drink all you had to say was: “Well, I’ve got to get back and get off some cables,” and it was done. It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working. Anyway, we went down-stairs to the bar and had a whiskey and soda. Cohn looked at the bottles in bins around the wall. “This is a good place,” he said.


“There’s a lot of liquor,” I agreed.


“Listen, Jake,” he leaned forward on the bar. “Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”


“Yes, every once in a while.”


“Do you know that in about thirty-five years more we’ll be dead?”


“What the hell, Robert,” I said. “What the hell.”


“I’m serious.”


“It’s one thing I don’t worry about,” I said.


“You ought to.”


“I’ve had plenty to worry about one time or other. I’m through worrying.”


“Well, I want to go to South America.”


“Listen, Robert, going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How seriously you take it probably depends on your jurisdiction and church culture, but I was always aware of it growing up. In part because I attended an Antiochian-run summer camp where they would serve us fasting food on Wednesdays, Fridays, and during the Apostles Fast. This year I will probably not fast very strictly since my wife is pregnant and we have a young child.


orthoxerox - if you don't mind me asking, what is your relationship to Orthodoxy? In my time lurking I think I have pieced together that you are a Russian who identifies as Orthodox in some sense and follows some of the practices, but that you are not really a believing Christian. Is this accurate?


(I realized I may have to ask the above question again later if I hope to get orthoxerox's attention, since the fast started today!)