Go Set Our Expectations

Great surprise this morning to find The Wall Street Journal and London's The Guardian releasing the first chapter of "Go Set a Watchman." (Beautiful graphics at The Guardian)

 Started reading at the stop light after I followed the link from Twitter. The rhythm and voice are there, at least in places:

"Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical."

"When at the University, Cousin Joshua studied too hard and thought too much; in fact, he read himself straight out of the nineteenth century."

"If you did not want much, there was plenty."

"Recorded history’s version does not coincide with the truth, but these are the facts, because they were passed down by word of mouth through the years, and every Maycombian knows them."

"Love whom you will but marry your own kind."

"They were friends again."

But, does it rise to the level of ...

"When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."

We"ll see Tuesday