Connections

Finished Philip Roth's incredibly sad Nemesis and immediately listened to Bill Frisell's Have A Little Faith, an album featuring all sorts of melancholy Americana. The initial connection for me was the cover of the CD, featuring a photo of kids racing towards the camera in some sort of impromptu race undertaken on 4 July 1941. It reminded me of the scenes at the Indian Camp in the second half of the novel. But then the music seemed to fit as well. Never such innocence again.