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Quite the fascinating read...personal reflections by Tim Davenport, the literary force behind the Debs Selected Works project. We are half-way through the collecting/editing project for Volume 3. Ergo, 2 1/2 volumes to go. Volume 1 will published this fall by Haymarket. Volume 2 early next year. And so on....none of the material will have ever been published in any collection of Deb's writings. In this sense if one were to add the 6 volumes we will complete to the Letters of Eugene V. Debs: 3 Volume Set (Edited by J. Robert Constantine) there will be a total of 9 volumes of his writings. ---David Walters Tim's perspective: Two decades ago my best friend from college and I went out to lunch in Corvallis. We had both recently turned 35 and that served as the occasion — half of the biblical “three score and ten.” I don’t precisely remember a single word that we said to one another during the 90 minutes or so we were together, but I do remember it as a very reflective discussion that we had at what felt like “halftime” of our lives. Time had flown. There were good memories and good stories and others that were less happy — but it was somehow deeply satisfying to take accounts and to acknowledge mortality. The relative shortness of the first half of life emphasized the value of time and served as a source of focus for activity in the second. I now find myself feeling the same sort of mixture of pensiveness and optimism about the *Debs Selected Works* project today as the calendar ticks down on the arduous document compilation phase for the third of six volumes. Halftime approaches. • • • • • *Origin of the Debs Project* I didn’t wake up one morning and decide that I wanted to spend five years doing a comprehensive Debs writings project. Far from it — this little obsession is the end product of a long process. FULL: https://debsproject.org/2018/07/07/halftime-18-23/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
