Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. We rarely read the auto pages of the Times because one of the main joys of living in town is not needing to care about cars. But we were directed to this recent review of the Lexus ES 350 and we have to admit that we never realized how many gems the section contains. Your Moment:

An ES 350, especially a loaded ES 350, is a very nice car. But I'm reminded of James Joyce's short story "The Dead." In it, a man's wife reveals that as a teenager, she had a boyfriend named Michael Furey who died of pneumonia after trying to visit her during a terrible storm. The husband dejectedly realizes that compared with this crazy dead guy, he hasn't brought much to the table in the way of passion. He's just going through the motions.
I wonder if an ES 350 owner wouldn't eventually have a similar epiphany.

Wow. That's almost as good as their take on the new Toyota, which began, "river4runner, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back toHowth Castle and Environs."

If Driving Is a Pain, Here's Your Balm [NYT]