WRITTEN BY:
Noralil Ryan Fores for Short End Magazine

“We swim and lie down together. The remarkable discovery forces itself upon me that I do not love her so wildly as I loved her last night. But at least there is no malaise, and we lie drowsing in the sun, hands clasped in the other’s back, until the boat whistle blows.

“Yet love revives as we spin homewards along the coast through the early evening. Joy and sadness come by turns, I know now. Beauty and bravery make you sad, Sharon’s beauty and my aunt’s bravery, and victory breaks your heart. But life goes on and on we go, spinning along the coast in a violet light, past Howard Johnson’s and the motels and the children’s carnival. We pull into a bay and have a drink under the stars. It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.”

~from Walker Percy's The Moviegoer

A conversation wherein composer Keegan DeWitt opens up his creative process for Aaron Katz’s Quiet City and talks in the most beautiful terms about ‘the sad little happiness.’