"Enough."

John Updike's death is ruthlessly depressing. He wrote so many beautiful things, so perhaps it's best to mark the occasion by excerpting the snuffing out of his greatest creation:



And so it is.

...The Times will fix this, presumably, but contra Lehmann-Haupt, Wood's Broken Estate was published in 2000, not 1966 and this -- "More important, the move to a small town seemed to stimulate his memories of Shillington and his creation of its fictional counterpart, Ollington." -- is wrong. It's Ollinger.