6/11/2023 0 Comments Terrence mann authorAnd now, Ray Kinsella, I want to ask you a question. Back then I thought, 'Well, there'll be other days.' I didn't realize that that was the only day. You know, we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Graham: It was like coming this close to your dreams and then watch them brush past you like a stranger in a crowd. so the least you can do is bring back his hero.ĭr. Then why did you say it? Ray Kinsella: I was seventeen. Terence Mann: You knew he wasn't a criminal. Terence Mann: Who was his hero? Ray Kinsella: Shoeless Joe Jackson. Terence Mann: What was the awful thing you said? Ray Kinsella: I said I could never respect a man whose hero was a criminal. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. Ray Kinsella: I mean, what do you want? Terence Mann: Oh. I want them to start thinking for themselves. Ray Kinsella: So, what do you want? Terence Mann: I want them to stop looking to me for answers, begging me to speak again, write again, be a leader. And people like you think I must be miserable because I'm not involved anymore. Then they killed Martin, they killed Bobby, they elected Tricky Dick twice. Ray Kinsella: Don't you miss being involved? Terence Mann: I was the East Coast distributor of 'involved'. I want them to stop looking to me for answers, begging me to speak again, write again, be a leader. Terence Mann: You're seeing a whole team of psychiatrists, aren't you? You used my father's name in one of your stories: John Kinsella. Annie Kinsella: Who's for Eva Braun here? Who wants to burn books? Who wants to spit on the Constitution of the United States of America, anybody? Now who's for the Bill of Rights? Who thinks that freedom is a pretty darn good thing? Who thinks that we have to stand up to the kind of censorship that they had under Stalin? Beulah Gasnick: Well, your husband plowed under his corn and built a baseball field!.The weirdo! Annie Kinsella: At least he is not a book burner, you Nazi cow! Beulah Gasnick: At least I'm not married to the biggest horse's ass in three counties!. Annie Kinsella: No, I think you had two '50's and moved right in to the '70's. Beulah Gasnick: I experienced the Sixties. And I think that if you had experienced even a little bit of the Sixties, you might feel the same way too. I cherished every one of his books, and I dearly wish he had written some more. Where others were chanting, "Burn, baby burn", he talked about love, and peace and understanding. He coined the phrase, "Make love, not war". Shoot, I'd play for nothing!Īnnie Kinsella: Terence Mann was a voice of reason during a time of great madness. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. Shoeless Joe: I used to love travelling on the trains from town to town. Did you ever hold a ball or a glove to your face? Ray: Yeah. I'd wake up at night with the smell of the ball park in my nose, the cool of the grass on my feet. I've heard that old men wake up and scratch itchy legs that have been dust for over fifty years. Ray: I bet it's good to be playing again, huh? Shoeless Joe: Getting thrown out of baseball was like having part of me amputated.
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