Nothing Ever Ends
As I said one of the characters in the book/novel has a blog. And because it is a blog, the reader will be reading the last blog first, which is in the opposite chronological order of the other stories/story line. The character who is writing the blog is Maynard G. Krebs. He does not appear in any of the stories. At least not as Maynard G. Krebs. Instead there is a clerk in the drug store, around which all these stories exist, who is Maynard’s public persona. That’s the idea any how.
Maynard G. Krebs has been in the back of my mind for fifty years, ever since I saw him on the show, the Loves of Dobie Gillis. Welcome to Maynard’s Most people know Bob Denver through Gilligan’s Island. But Denver’s portrayal of a beatnik in LDG is one of the most memorable comic characters. I’m not sure if there is such a character in Shakespeare for example. There is something playfully mysterious about him. This is his first (last) appearance in the book. And of course by now he doesn’t sound too much like a beatnik. But then you haven’t read the whole book yet.
Nothing Ever Ends
“Nothing ever ends. That’s the lesson of the universe. But it’s not our lesson. Not mankind’s. Death is not just a change of character for us. It is the end. And in the end we want to be remembered. Held in the bosom of those we loved. What else can we ask? But we do ask. We want to be held close to Him. But where is He? Does He even exist? And if He exists why won’t He speak to us. Why can’t we hear His voice? But of course we do. Life is His conversation. You want to look upon His face. Reality is His smile. Did you think that words were all He would give us?”
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cover for an enovel ‘God of Six Points’.
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