Tell me what you've read!
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Absolutely the worst of all possible narrators read this book. I put
up with him solely because I wanted to read it. Bob Dole has more charisma
than this narrator. He stressed the wrong syllables of words. Don't get
all het up, now; I'm not putting down either Brown or his work. Those
I find commendable. After reading this I was pleased and awestruck to find
an exhibition of original photographs of Native Americans for sale in Aspen.
Not in a museum? (I was forgetting this was Aspen.) But I got to look at
them, anyway.
January 1996
I had gone to Aspen for the weekend and begun Peter Mathiessen's At Play
in the Fields of the Lord, which was (I thought) a good movie. I found this
in the Aspen library and abandoned Mathiessen, which I feel somewhat guilty
about, what with his efforts for Leonard Pelletier and all. Watch me misspell
two different last names in one paragraph. I had intended to read this since
I found it in PGN's book sale in
the summer of 1990 or '91 and more so after LEB
gave me an article fall of '91 I think from The Smithsonian by her? entitled
"Why Study History?"
February 1996
(Okay, so she didn't make up the title.) Another banned book I finally read.
CLH visited her secret house when
in Amsterdam. I think I'd like to.
March 1996
RDC asserts that A Tale of Two Cities
is Dickens' most politically subversive book. I'm no scholar, but I disagree.
A Tale of Two Cities is obviously political what with the French Revolution,
but Hard Times makes some very strong statements about the position of
labor. Workers reduced to less than synecdoche; minds reduced to automatons.
Of course, in that respect it's not different than a lot of Dickens. For years
I made disparaging comments about Dickens' four autobiographies even when I
knew I was lying; I think I was posing (no!). I shan't again. Dickens is good.
March 1996
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