Jordan Dotson

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Grand chords

April 7, 2017 By Jordan

I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling; there have been grand chords.

…from Burning The Days, by James Salter, above whom no one stands any better at writing, simply, of men.

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