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Writing THE END For ALMOST A DEAD MAN

April 7, 2025 – 10:09 am

Yesterday I typed THE END to ALMOST A DEAD MAN. 348 pages. Then spell check. Only seven typos Then I hit search for God. Only seventeen times. No bad for an atheist. I first wrote it in Ireland in 1997. I showed it to Shannon who read it in a single night. I sent the […]

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Willa Cather’s WHEN I KNEW CRANE

January 21, 2025 – 11:27 am

< http://www.online-literature.com/willa-cather/4311/… An amazing passage from Willa Cather’s WHEN I KNEW CRANE about he meeting him several times in Omaha 1894. Men will sometimes reveal themselves to children, or to people whom they think never to see again, more completely than they ever do to their confreres. From the wise we hold back alike our […]

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