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i went to bed last night feeling foo about the week's efforts and knowing that i simply can't treat Poppet and Hanty and the rest of 'em like i would treat Lewis or James or States. it's too weird to fill their mouths with banter. even though they are characters in a story i am writing, they are still people (present tense because where i come from death is not the end), and i don't really know them. not well enough to be conjecturing about their innermost secret thoughts. adam braver's lincoln stories are brave, but somehow the ones where lincoln doesn't say much are the ones that really work.
and to be honest, maybe i resent betty's and adicks' characterizations of Poppet so much that i don't want to be accused of trying to overcompensate for 140 years of people picking on the man.
at which point i know beyond any shadow of a doubt that i need a life.
: o p
fortunately i'm taking the morning to meet a friend down at fort snelling just to be a goofy tourist for a while and not think about this for a few hours.
meanwhile, i'm scaling back (what's with the over-ambition!) i said 75k and the way i was cranking, it was shaping up as if it might be 150k! no no no ~ we're not having that.
a small book.
something with choice selections from the whole of history to read and meditate over. it's okay if all the deliciously dirty details (curse you, Sanford Conover!*) don't get fully explicated!
because cramming so large a canvas within a slim volume is like trying to poke a water buffalo into a sandwich.
happy sattidy all!
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faynudibranch turned me on to Devil's Game, a history of charles dunham (a.k.a. sanford conover, goverment witness, who was a complete fraud ~ or i should say several frauds) who managed to submit false testimony as two different people in this case!. i'll have to tell his story sometime. it shocked even me! oh my Lord what people managed to almost get away with back then!
and to be honest, maybe i resent betty's and adicks' characterizations of Poppet so much that i don't want to be accused of trying to overcompensate for 140 years of people picking on the man.
at which point i know beyond any shadow of a doubt that i need a life.
: o p
fortunately i'm taking the morning to meet a friend down at fort snelling just to be a goofy tourist for a while and not think about this for a few hours.
meanwhile, i'm scaling back (what's with the over-ambition!) i said 75k and the way i was cranking, it was shaping up as if it might be 150k! no no no ~ we're not having that.
a small book.
something with choice selections from the whole of history to read and meditate over. it's okay if all the deliciously dirty details (curse you, Sanford Conover!*) don't get fully explicated!
because cramming so large a canvas within a slim volume is like trying to poke a water buffalo into a sandwich.
happy sattidy all!
: D
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faynudibranch turned me on to Devil's Game, a history of charles dunham (a.k.a. sanford conover, goverment witness, who was a complete fraud ~ or i should say several frauds) who managed to submit false testimony as two different people in this case!. i'll have to tell his story sometime. it shocked even me! oh my Lord what people managed to almost get away with back then!Tags:
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except with God being the original author, you really have a lot of pressure to obey that canon ~ ! (at least i think so!)
but that's definitely a perspective worth considering!
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