"If you don't correct stuff right when it happens, you can get into serious trouble. Stay on it."In this story, illustrated by Ty Templeton, Pekar schedules physical therapy for a mending elbow, has a false tooth reglued, and gets a missing screw for his glasses replaced. "Keep on pushin'," he thinks, as the story closes. "Keep on pushin'."
Harvey Pekar, "You Get Old You Can Fall Apart (We're a Winner)," in American Splendor: Another Dollar (New York: DC Comics, 2009), 45.
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Review: Leave Me Alone!
comments: 2
Man, that guy's had so many health problems. I remember being quite moved by "Our Cancer Year." Osmosis due to his job in a hospital, perhaps?
I'll second your words about Our Cancer Year — it's one of the most moving things about illness I've ever read.
About the elbow: a story in this new collection shows him falling on a piece of a tree limb outside his front door.
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