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"God @#?!, I loved football." Thus begins the saga of a small-town southern boy whose life is altered irreparably by the All-American sport of high-school football. Following the injury that leaves him paralyzed from the neck down, Carl Launius learns, with a fierce finality, that nothing will ever be the same again. In search of a world outside the confines of a wheelchair, Launius turns to Freud, Dostoyevsky, Eliot, college, writing, booze, sex, and drugs - on his way to becoming a "radical degenerate poet." He haphazardly juggles higher education with attendant care, first love, substance abuse, portable ramps, and "too-full-of-beer" urine bags, bobbing up and down physically and emotionally from the Arkansas Ozarks to Illinois to UC-Davis and back again to Little Rock. Whether slung like a feedsack over the shoulder of a friend, dumped in the floorboard of a van astride a railroad track, or dead broke at the horse races in Hot Springs, Launius presses on, without whining, resolved to "beat the odds" and live a valid life. This book is proof that he has found that life.
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Meredith Carlson
reviewed It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time on November 29, 2007
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Great biography of a lesser-known general. I enjoyed how the author not only covered Siegel's life during the Civil War, but also included his service in Germany and his life after the war.
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