John Updike Quote
Back From VacationBack from vacation, the barber announces,or the postman, or the girl at the drugstore, now tan.They are amazed to find the workaday worldstill in place, their absence having slipped no cogs,their customers having hardly missed them, andthere being so sparse an audience to tell of the wonders,the pyramids they have seen, the silken warm seas,the nighttimes of marimbas, the purchases achievedin foreign languages, the beggars, the flies,the hotel luxury, the grandeur of marble cities.But at Customs the humdrum pressed its claims.Gray days clicked shut around them; the yoke still fit,
John Updike
Back From VacationBack from vacation, the barber announces,or the postman, or the girl at the drugstore, now tan.They are amazed to find the workaday worldstill in place, their absence having slipped no cogs,their customers having hardly missed them, andthere being so sparse an audience to tell of the wonders,the pyramids they have seen, the silken warm seas,the nighttimes of marimbas, the purchases achievedin foreign languages, the beggars, the flies,the hotel luxury, the grandeur of marble cities.But at Customs the humdrum pressed its claims.Gray days clicked shut around them; the yoke still fit,