Captain Noon! Captain Noon! a Year in the Life Captain Icarus Noon of the Triple Z Squadron

Captain Noon is in his last year at college. He sleeps till noon he dreams of being a pilot. Time and opportunities slip away in procrastination. The narrator his father recalls his own father's instructions play for keeps and the head of his high school hoe-out your row. Get on with it. Finish what you do. A distant cousin Nora put off life and never got around to it. A thorn in the side of members of the family Nora lives alone and has a stroke. She is the family historian collecting clippings about members of the family in her Death Bible. The comfortable Berkeley liberals a man in an electric wheelchair takes a 'pitch' in the rain a pitcher for the Giants neighbors Berkeley's contraband dog hair and the fancy of the Triple Z Squadron the Triple Z Airlines in peacetime fill out the story. Thomas De Quincey says: If once a man indulges himself in murder very soon he comes to think of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking and from that to incivility and procrastination.