Tuesday, October 29, 2013

I Sought The Unfindable But...

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...Learned something more About Dawn Powell and her alma mater.
The following email is one click away from complete legibility.




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  1. AnonymousOctober 29, 2013 at 4:46 PM

    Wonderful!

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    1. Paul OliverioOctober 29, 2013 at 8:22 PM

      Especially her anti-Godot advice to the students:
      "Beware of waiting–leap before you look–you learn by leaping.
      If you look first, you never leap."

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  2. AnonymousOctober 30, 2013 at 3:33 AM

    But she scraped away the artifice, best.

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    1. Paul OliverioOctober 30, 2013 at 8:30 AM

      Like all great writers of fiction, Dawn Powell mastered the art of scraping away artifice.
      Her characters could be deliciously dark & painfully profound.
      This quote is from ANGELS ON TOAST:

      A noose is what everybody goes for. Soon as they get out of one they look around. "Where's my new noose?" they say, and nobody's happy till they got the new one.
      Love, business, it's all the same. Everybody's got to have the neck in the old noose, it's better than nothing.       Everybody's got to have a place to rest their neck.

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