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Inspirational thought of the week:

«You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood… back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame… back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the time — back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.»

— «You Can't Go Home Again» by Thomas Wolfe

Here at Bottom 10 Headquarters, located in the industrial-sized clothes dryer used to the dry out the perspiration-saturated suits we wore in the 110 degree heat of Oxford for last weekend's «Marty & McGee» from Ole Miss, it was during that visit that I found myself in a moment of reflection. Sure, some of that was me peering down into a puddle of my own sweat, but really it was about the idea of going back. I recalled the seminal work of my fellow North Carolinian scribe Thomas Wolfe, who wrote the novel «You Can't Go Home Again» about a former local hero who returned home after a lifetime of fortune and fame, only to find that the people who helped him get there were seething angry because of what he had written about them after he left.

Sound familiar? It sure did as I stood on a balcony overlooking the Square on the morning of the Ole Miss-LSU game, seeing homemade images of Lane Kiffin as a dartboard, Lane Kiffin as a potbellied pickleball player, Lane Kiffin as a donkey's butt, and Carly Simon-inspired signs proclaiming, «You're so Lame, you probably think this game is about you.» And that night, seeing Kiffin's former Ole Miss players pointing various fingers at their old coach after they had iced the victory. As I left town, an overserved gentleman dressed in powder blue Landshark overalls shouted at me, «Hey,