The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas
…IN LATE DECEMBER, two days before the new year, Mitey-Mike was killed in an accident. It was the kind of spectacular tale that he might have come up with himself after missing a week of work. What happened was he was walking his neighbor’s dog in a field near his house and he got hit by an airplane. A little two-man Cessna. Both pilots died and so did Mitey-Mike, but the dog lived. Hassan, my old boss at Bell’s Pizza, explained everything. I’d never heard him so upset…
E’ uno dei pezzi più belli che abbia mai letto. Mitey-Mike del "Surfista solitario del Montana" è sempre stato un personaggio mitologico, scoperto un pomeriggio insieme a Marco tra un libro di economia e uno di diritto. E in fondo ognuno di noi conosce un Mitey-Mike (io di sicuro).
