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| | | Subject: William F. Buckley, Jr. - RIP
Posted Feb 27, 2008 by Steve K.
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My favorites were his books about sailing, since I've done some myself. He did it differently, tho  :
"I keep thinking about Christopher. I slide open the door, step into the saloon, lit at this time of night only by the picture lights that diffuse the oil colors of those splendid sea scenes by Richard Grosvenor ... when the boat rocks I need to exert great pressure through my knees on the underside of the [piano] keyboard to keep from falling over backward, and the additional challenge to coordination is enough to make the sounds that result a travesty on the Bach partita I am, as usual, struggling with. I left the piano and put on the cassette player, a late Beethoven sonata, as we sat down for a dinner of turkey and stuffing, wine, cheese, fruit and coffee. I thought I would try -- just a flyer -- to say something about the difference between the late and the early Beethoven...."
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/07/16/specials/buckley-airborne.html
He and I also share a "funniest book" opinion, "Sailing: A Sailor's Dictionary" (paraphrasing):
The Beaufort Scale of Wind Strength:
Force 3 - Not Enough Wind
Force 4 - Too Much Wind
Force 5 - WAY Too Much Wind
Force 6 - WooWeeeee ....
And from his son, also a very funny author:
"And what finer tribute can any father receive than Christopher's final entry in the log: 'Pop, if you were to set sail tomorrow to cross another ocean, I'd sell my soul to ship out with you. Any day.'"
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