Robert Lipsyte (Credit: Julie Lane)
Time slows down on Shelter Island, claims Codger, especially if you’re not raising kids or working a job or two, but during this past COVID year time has been softening, warping, melting like Salvador Dali’s clocks.
Codger often asks Crone what day it is. She often knows.
That’s why Codger was astounded to learn that this week was the 50th anniversary of one of the seminal nights of his professional life, the first boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. How did that one slip past him? He had his shots. What else was there to distract him? The Comprehensive Plan? Reinventing the police department? Why Albert Dickson, whom he really liked, was not running again for Town Board?