A promising beginning for Richard Ford's new Frank Bascombe novel:
"Lately, I've begun to think more than I used to about happiness. This is not an idle consideration at any time in life; but it is a high-dollar bonus topic for me—b. 1945—approaching my stipulated biblical allotment.
Being an historical Presbyterian (not-attending, not-believing, like most Presbyterians), I've passed easily through life observing a version of happiness old Knox himself might've approved—walking the fine line between the twinned injunctions that say: "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" and "happiness is whatever is not bludgeoning unhappiness." The second being more Augustinian—though all these complex systems get you to the same mystery: "Do what, now?""
— Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel by Richard Ford
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