On page 6, Henry takes Will's hat off: "He snatched my hat from my head and gave it to me all in one motion."
The story goes:
"I like hats," I said. I had about a dozen of them at home." [I do, too.]It turns out Henry doesn't like men wearing hats unless it's cold outside. Will wears his hat everywhere. It's part of him. He takes it off only on concession to convention. When Henry snatches it from his hat it's like tearing his heart out.
"Whatever for?" [I love this phrase. Only people older than me say it.]
"I guess I just like them," I said. "I just don't feel comfortable without one on my head."
Now, when Henry asks Will why he likes hats, albeit in a challenging phrase, Will becomes defensive and doesn't give a reason. He just says because he does. Is he being secretive here or is it that he just has not thought out the reasons for liking hats? Maybe both.
Myself, I always wear a hat. I have several regular ones. Which one I wear depends upon the season of the year and the weather. When the Phillies won the World Series, I wore my Phillies hat for a few days. If you ask me about it, I'll tell you about my history of hat wearing.
What do you think about men in hats? Post a comment. I'd like to know.
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Ian Kearney, the director of the Kearney Music School, an elite musical training school in Philadelphia, dies after a fall from a balcony during a recital. World-famous cellist, Henry Harrier, recently forced from the faculty, returns to investigate Ian's death when his prized former student is arrested. Henry shows through his brilliant and single-minded pursuit of the truth that, as usual, they have it all wrong. This Sherlock Holmes-type mystery leads the reader through the world of classical music and lays bare the conflicts which dominate the lives of talented adolescents when placed under the pressure of studying for a demanding, stressful, and often elusive career as a classical music performer. Henry Harrier is part John Le Carre's George Smiley, part Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes, and part Orlando Cole the beloved teacher, renowned chamber musician, and until his own retirement, the premier cellist of the Curtis Institute.
Tim was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1946. In 1951 he moved with his family to Schenectady, New York, where he lived through high school. He attended Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, from 1964 to 1968. He graduated in 1968 with a B.A. in history and philosophy. He received his Ph. D. in history in U.S. history in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after spending 2.5 years in the U. S. Army. Most of his army service was completed in Wuerzburg, Germany, from 1969-1971. In 1972 he returned to Madison to complete his doctoral study. His dissertation, Those Who Moved; Internal Migrants in American 1607-1840, combined the statistical analysis of genealogical and biographical data with the study of traditional literary diaries, letters, and journals.
