New review: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson
Gabriel
Seems I like revisiting the classics. I just reread Callahan's
Crosstime Saloon. If you've read it, or not, stop by my hubpage
(http://hubpages.com/hub/Callahans-Crosstime-Sallon-by-Spider-
Robinson) and let me know what you think.
Thanks, I look forward to hearing from you. Here's a short excerpt:
A bar unlike any other.
According to Spider Robinson, and his narrator, Jake Stonebender,
Callahan's Bar is a place you can only find if you really need to. Run
by the illustrious Mike Callahan, this is a bar unlike anything I've
ever seen. Well-lit, comfortable chairs, and cheap alcohol, this is
the type of place we always dream of finding, but never have. Fast
Eddie plays piano, "Doc" Webster rules with puns, and a long list of
regulars are there to keep the joint hopping.
There's a tradition at Callahan's place: you drop a dollar for every
drink. You pay your dollar, drink your drink, then you either give
your glass back and take 50 cents from the box, or you make a toast.
If you're going to make a toast, you step up to the line, drink,
toast, and throw your glass into the fireplace. Everyone who steps up
to the line gets the undivided attention of everyone in the room.
It's that kind of place. And the reason why, you'll never find it in
this world. Can you imagine what we could do if we all stopped
focusing on our own problems just long enough to help out someone with
there's? And that's really what's at the heart of Callahan's,
Callahan's Law, if you will: "Shared pain is lessened; shared joy,
increased—thus do we refute entropy."