In the Cloud

“Caro types the second draft triple-spaced, to leave room for further revision, using the same brand of pencil Newsday stocked in his day.

 

“He also makes copies. ‘I got enough carbon paper for the rest of my life,’ he says.

“The duplicates go home with him each evening, to be placed above the refrigerator, his version of the Cloud.”

—Karl Vick, reporter, “Biographer Robert Caro Pauses as He Prepares His Final Lyndon B. Johnson Volume,” TIME, April 4, 2019.

 

• Editorial Comment: When there’s a cloud above my fridge, it means the meat loaf’s gone bad.

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