Re: FLUXLIST: Reading Matters

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So many reasons to visit. I just read The Red Pony--great story. He creates a bowl valley shape mapped out by landmarks like the springs and the pig slaughtering tree. Like a pair of cupped hands. The boy story of obsession with death. I think the story actually helped me understand some of the boy kids at art camp--the angry ones who want to be gangstas. What a great writer. I have to get a copy of America and Americans before I read any more. I once received a postcard from my book selling friend, Dan Wheeler. It was the back cover of the  first printing paperback of America and American's. The message on the other side reads: "Dear Dreiser: This morning I have been pondering all the subtle and less than heiness follies I could commit and so I begin by writing you. To begin with, whenever I send you a letter I am never quite certain whether I am living in this mornful and yet so budding April world or in some anaesthetic, ozone, and metaphysical realm. For, as I never get a reply from you, I long cease to ask myself not whether you received my last fatuity but whether I really ever wrote it...   Your friend,   Edward Dahlberg."   ----- Ori----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 7/16/04 7:24:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is anyone compiling this reading list? I am reading Steinbeck all summer. Amazing! My studio/antique/fluxus space is right across the street from the old tanks that people used to live in on Cannery Row. They've been trying to get historical status for them. Not many people know that East of Eden meant east of Monterey (since it was about the Salinas valley)