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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Why Is She Not Better Known?

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In the NEW YORK TIMES, Lisa Zeidner asked:

So why is she not better known?
You could accept Tim Page's explanation,
in "Dawn Powell: A Biography," that her
"dark, mordant attitude toward the world . . . rankled."

She was simply too unsparing in her satire,
offending the very people who might embrace her.

As Powell wrote in her diary:
"I think my great handicap and strongest slavery
is my insistence on freedom. I require it."

Before ever reading

a Dawn Powell novel,

I read this quote from Ms. Zeidner:

Powell is wittier than Dorothy Parker,

dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald

When I first read that statement–

less than two years ago,

I would have sworn I smelled horse manure.

It cannot be true,

I thought, at that time.

Today, all I can say is...

Ms. Zeidner, thanks for proving me wrong!