It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of wri — John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
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It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

— John Leonard, Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
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