It never fails.

You post the obit watch on your lunch hour. You’re thinking, “Oh, it looks like a slow day. No big news is going to break after lunch.”

Big news breaks after lunch.

Cormac McCarthy obits tomorrow. The NYT‘s current one is a kind of lengthy preliminary one (probably pulled from the files) with the standard “A full obituary will appear shortly.” tag.

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One Response to “It never fails.”

  1. jimmymcnulty says:
    June 14, 2023 at 8:46 pm

    After Tom Wolfe, I think he is the greatest writer in my lifetime. Kurt Vonnegut number 3.