James Kruss Quotes

″ Between scribbling in the attic on the backs of wallpaper rolls, they read their efforts aloud to each other and to Uncle Harry, Upper Grandmother and Lower Grandmother.”

“A few years later the young boy and the old boy of My Great-Grandfather and I (KR, 1964) are still turning out their brisk, well-turned, disarmingly pointed stories and rhymes in a wonderfully companionable sort of synergistic creativity.”

“A brief study of Heroes in Verse and Prose, made up and told in several attic rooms by my Great-grandfather and myself.”

“The Great-Grandfather’s farewell note to the boy ends ”“No hero I, yet I think true/ To my beliefs: may you be too.”

“He expresses confidence that whenever he dies his great-grandson will bring him immortality and preserve ”“my small amount of wisdom”″ by never again praising false heroes.”

“The Young Boy and his Great-Grandfather fill the rest of the week this story spans discussing the question around which many of the fables turn: what makes a hero?”

“The Young Boy, now fourteen and home from school with a sore foot, and his Great-Grandfather, confined to a wheelchair and nearing the end of his life.”

″...that Hercules was and was not a hero, that war is not heroic and that risking one’s life is not necessarily heroic.”

“With tact and understanding the old boy guides the young one to the conclusion that Siegfried was not a hero...”

“I hope this book proves it,”″ ends Kruss, the now grown great-grandson, and we believe that he can rest assured.”