Stephen Edwin King:
(Portland, Maine, 21 September 1947).
Pseudonyms:
Richard Bachman / John Swithen / Beryl Evans.
Nickname: King of Horror.
American author of horror and science fiction stories and thrillers, among others. His books appear on lists of best-selling books, both fiction and non-fiction.
Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
High school isn’t a very important place. When you’re going you think it’s a big deal, but when it’s over nobody really thinks it was great unless they’re beered up.
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must…they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.
But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays a while like an old friend that you have missed.
The sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.
– The ‘date was already in September’ — nearly two weeks after August ended.
– But the ‘sun, heat, brightness, and summer feeling’ still seemed like August.
– “Calendar August” means the official month of August.
– “All August” means the sun felt completely August-like: hot, strong, summery, lingering.
In simpler words:
> ‘Although it was mid-September, the weather still felt like deep summer.’
Origin & Author 📚: Stephen King.
It comes from his novella “The Body”, first published in the 1982 collection “Different Seasons”.
Context 🎬:
“The Body” is the Stephen King novella that inspired the film “Stand by Me”. The story is set near the end of summer, and the line captures that nostalgic feeling of childhood summer lingering even after the calendar says it should be over.
Is it a common saying? 💬
Not really. It is ‘not an old proverb or traditional saying’; it is a literary sentence written by Stephen King. However, people may quote it because it beautifully expresses the feeling of ‘summer lasting into September’.
It was outdoor detail, and May is one fine month to be working outdoors.
