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April 17, 2006
OGIC: Intuition
My current read is Allegra Goodman's Intuition, which is proving hard to put down. Here's a nicely crafted, gently damning paragraph in which Dr. Sandy Glass tries to comfort himself about his daughter's decision not to go to medical school:So she'd get her master's degree in the history of science, Sandy mused. She'd finish up her little project and apply for medical school the year after. Robert Hooke was fine; he was eccentric; eccentricity was all the rage in med school applications. English majors, musicians, writers. Sandy had served his time on the committees. Harvard loved that kind of thing. She would be a doctor in the end. He knew it. Louisa was no soft-spoken library researcher. No math-fearing patsy. She was his son.
I love Goodman because she gives a character like this (father of three daughters, in case you hadn't guessed) every chance, really she does, and when they waste their chances, she so cleanly severs the jugular.
Posted April 17, 2006 9:34 AM
