tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post5913900435619305494..comments2024-01-28T02:24:23.386-05:00Comments on Dan Leo: “Railroad Train to Heaven”, Part 97: bad newsDan Leohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01603402268945559679noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-51568134694225305602008-09-13T18:18:00.000-04:002008-09-13T18:18:00.000-04:00Jen, your experience proves that real life can som...Jen, your experience proves that real life can sometimes be as strange as Arnold's memoirs.Dan Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01603402268945559679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-25024281835119348882008-09-13T17:49:00.000-04:002008-09-13T17:49:00.000-04:00Believe it or not, I've been in a similar circumst...Believe it or not, I've been in a similar circumstance... the person said I sounded calm so it might be better if I delivered the bad news. <BR/><BR/>I firmly declined.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231744174759800033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-5826081761617577542008-09-12T18:32:00.000-04:002008-09-12T18:32:00.000-04:00Jen: yeah, only Arnold; imagine, you've just met s...Jen: yeah, only Arnold; imagine, you've just met someone and they give you the phone, like, "Here, tell my daughter my husband just died, will you?"Dan Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01603402268945559679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-64404085871596170462008-09-12T17:03:00.000-04:002008-09-12T17:03:00.000-04:00This entry was indeed surprisingly touching. I don...This entry was indeed surprisingly touching. <BR/><BR/>I don't feel much for Mrs. Biddle, Jimmy or April, but feel sadness for Arnold.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231744174759800033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-65515060972076068842008-09-12T01:11:00.000-04:002008-09-12T01:11:00.000-04:00Manny, are many families not this way?To tell the...Manny, are many families <EM>not</EM> this way?<BR/><BR/>To tell the truth, now that the awful Jimmy is out of the way, this family doesn't seem quite so badly off. <BR/><BR/>Hey, thanks, Anon #1. Actually we had a typo there (Tommy for Jimmy), but after you brought my attention again to the brilliance of Arnold's sentence I went back and fixed it.<BR/><BR/>Kathleen, yeah, Arnold's kind of like a brakeman-poet Dr. Who, traveling through time and space and doing what he can to help out.<BR/><BR/>And, as Anon #2 points out, where Arnold goes, things happen.Dan Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01603402268945559679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-54213047911718779912008-09-11T22:15:00.000-04:002008-09-11T22:15:00.000-04:00oddly touching.And I hate to say, reminds me of my...oddly touching.<BR/>And I hate to say, reminds me of my family...are many families this way?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16378662301271706094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-73206935979497608092008-09-11T15:37:00.000-04:002008-09-11T15:37:00.000-04:00Arnold=CatalystArnold=CatalystAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-33469122048364855962008-09-11T12:59:00.000-04:002008-09-11T12:59:00.000-04:00No matter how unpredictable Arnold's time and plac...No matter how unpredictable Arnold's time and place, it turns out his presence is invaluable. He brings everyone to acceptance and understanding. The price for that gift--lifelong awkwardness--couldn't be more apt, or more rare.<BR/>Many among us, me included, can do nothing but watch our awkwardness seize whoever's around us.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12306491903311869968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380232356803921253.post-62271786775392335252008-09-11T12:03:00.000-04:002008-09-11T12:03:00.000-04:00"I could see the white blob of Tommy’s body out th..."I could see the white blob of Tommy’s body out there, being pummeled by thousands of gallons of rain, lying in the mud as if it were floating in a dirty lake."<BR/>I can see and hear it. Good job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com