Retrospective

Charlie Rose's hour is a retrospective devoted to the late John Updike. (The second link brings up a menu of past interview clips.) The whole discussion is how multifaceted and prolific Updike's output truly was. A novel a year, plus essays, poetry, short stories, and over 800 pieces in the New Yorker during his 50-year career. His last pieces, yet to be published, reflect on his impending death.

Many who produce things over a span of time, or experience things over a span of time, have the opportunity to look back and examine the past.

As noted in the top banner for this blog, posts are subject to revision. Earlier this evening, I went back through the past three and a half months' posts, and made some subtle emendations. Most of them were revising the .html behind the images in the early posts, and inserting additional links in the text. Nothing substantive.

I am mildly bemused that the most often viewed image of the over 800 posted on FLICKR is one showing the south side of 6th Street, taken from the roof of the City Auditorium on the day the buildings that formerly occupied the Kilgore Memorial Library site were scheduled for demolition. A quarter century has passed since that chilly morning.