from a chance encounter

sometimes, you meet angels where you least expect them to be. there is vic, a novelist,under the cheek with self-humility. he even calls himself 'vic, the bookseller.' he's a lot better than that. a lot. His A Hitch in Twilight is a masterpiece of short story fiction. it's fiction with an edge, a light Lovecraft, a touch of spellbound 'hitchcraft' which is a word i now coin as a cross between hitchcock and whichcraft..which is what vic's works remind me of. yes, seeing him yesterday, i remember his encouragement. his sense that he knows if he plants two feet firmly on the ground by the sheepshead bay pier, he will not fall in the water. he will find his way home. he is the archangel that led me to ALL THINGS THAT MATTER PRESS and Phil and Deborah Harris. As a wordmeister, prone to magical thoughts, i needed to be clear about that way. yeah, twenty-seven years I walked through walls with a foggy vision. but vic showed me the path, though i hovered around and even above the sandstone cliffs.You see, when it comes to GHOST RUNNERS, i was unable to find my feet on solid earth before, and that story, you see, does matter. it is a thing that matters.Though I tell it as fiction so when vic says my blog yesterday was about Marty Glickman going toward Hitler, I must correct it was Joshua Sellers, no relation to Marty.
my sons are both Cornell grads (i take the kudos, of course) and one of the 'things' that most impresses about that richly talented ivy league school is the saying attributed to Ezra Cornell, its founder. he said, way back when, that he wanted to create an institution of higher learning in which people can learn all things that matter to them. one of my sons, for example, had a hell of a time passing the art of wine-tasting..cornell style. vic's title A Hitch in the Twilight is also like that. it has special meaning to me...for you see, there is a hitch in the twilight. it is where people like me still fit in. are somehow guided to the right place, after all. thank you, vic...you are a lighttower....rob