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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 187: Larry was never bored.
Description: 5LARRY WAS NEVER BORED. That is, he was never bored within the books. I knew from experience that everyone my age was bored for a significant amount of time every day. It may have been the absence of boredom that made me truly understand how much of Larry’s life was missing from the Adventures of Larry Peters, that made me begin to understand how distorted was the picture of Larry’s life that we, the readers, Larry’s admirers, were allowed to see. It seemed safe to assume, for example, that the Peters family ate dinner every...