Hard Rain Falling (New York Review Books Classics)

by Don Carpenter

A penis squirts, and I am doomed to a life of death.

He realized that he really didn’t know anything about tides. There was so much for him to learn about things, even unimportant little things like tides, which everybody ought to know. It made him wonder where he had been all his life.

Jack could not finish Ulysses, but read From Here to Eternity with rapt attention, and at the end hugged the book to his chest and said, “This son of a bitch has really been around! Man, what a book!”