Sing it 'Ol Ozzie Osbourne, Uhm? Oh Yeah, Bark At
The Moon...
So Y'all
may be saying what's this Tom Wolfe Chap got to do with motor racing, Righto?
And I agree, it's definitely a STIR-RETCH,
but; Thanxs to F1 Grizzled Journo' Joe Saward's Dogged persistence to reference
The Bonfire of Vanities over thou past several years upon his Blog. Hey Joe
Knows F1, El Correctomundo? Along with promising Thyself I'd listen to that
book one day, Viola, Shuhzamm!
With Messer Wolfe's passing last year, I
finally lit thoust rocket engine and got my local library, Y'all know what
those are, Righto? Along with the Uber friendly 'N helpful library assistant
Kevin's help via Intra-library loan, I got this book that I'd previously
refrained from on CD Audiobook format, Justin-time' for Hunka-Hunka Valentine's
Day! And simply couldn't put it down once I began listening to it.
As Messer Wolfe,
along with Hunter S. Thompson were known for their unique styles 'O writing.
With both arguably being instrumental in written word prose...
Tom Wolfe, Novelist and Pioneer of New Journalism Dies at 88
And ironically it was another Wolfe acknowledgement
by Astronaut Scott Kelly, then setting the record for longest Man in Space
aboard the International Space Station, (ISS) when writing a letter from Space to
the esteemed author, replete with copy of The Right Stuff in Orbit which once
again got me thinking about Tom's Books.
Whilst Commander
Cody; Err Kelly helps continue on another Astronaut tradition, by driving a
Corvette Stingray naturally...
Meanwhile, as one of my current Taglines
judiciously borrowed from 'Ol Arlo Guthrie, Y'all know: "We're just Waiting'
for It to Come Back round..." Which is exactly what I'm still doing upon
having requested The Right Stuff at the same time I requested Wolfe's Bonfire
of The Vanities, not knowing which would arrive first? Before Kevin said he'd
put in a request for the library to purchase a copy of The Right Stuff for
Mwah, since it wasn't available - and sadly hasn't arrived yet, since doing so this
past February.
Thus I'll just leave Y'all with another
rendition of Messer Wolfe's accomplishments in the following obituary...