Last Quarter 3 Blog Post

At the end of The Night of the Gun, David Carr reflects on his past part of life and how he managed to get where he is today. He says, "I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon" (382). You can tell that Carr understands what he has done and has moved past hit. As he said he is "grateful" for what he has, and in the end that's all we can do. I like how he tied in writing to life, calling our inevitable death a "caper." This seemed very appropriate considering whenever we write a paper we are reminded that our caper must leave the reader wanting more, but still have it tie everything up nicely. Since Carr probably knows this, he is also telling the reader to make sure that when the end does come, bow out gracefully and leave a nice last thought.
Carr also explains how the past can easily come up because people remember. On the way to his cabin he gets stop for speeding by a cop. Carr explains his view as, "It was the day I was to begin writing the book, and I took it as an omen that the halo of flies I used to wear could be summoned as needed" (385). Not having a very large past, I can't completely relate with this, but I take it as good warning. With a little work, the police officer that stopped Carr could see his history and all the crimes he's committed and judge him from that. You're past is always there, haunting you in away. Carr's life is the exact oppisite of what it was in his twenties, still people have memory of it, and will always remember that him. Even if you make amends, as Carr has, the past is always right behind you.