New Orleans: The Sorrow, The Pity, The Awe, The Joy
Posted on July 24, 2010
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Ted Munat is a Seattle-based fan of good spirits and a co-author of Left Coast Libations, available right-the-hell-now at the Tales bookstore, in the lobby of the Monteleone. He blogs at Le Mixeur.
If I were ever to move to New Orleans I would almost certainly end up writing the best novel ever written. People all over the world would drop their bags and look to the sky in awe and reverence over what had just been accomplished, sensing the seismic alteration of the universe my words had caused. Mothers would clutch their children. Construction workers would remove their protective eyewear and proudly wipe away tears. Football players would pull up short of tacking their prey and instead offer pats on the back and warm embraces. Such is the level of inspiration of New Orleans and such are the possibilities when it gets wired into my brain. The title of the book would be one of those poignant couplings of words we typically take to be contradictory, such as Joy and Sorrow, Hope and Doom, Life and Death, or Sex and the City.
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