There’s a huge gap between the previous journal and the one beginning here. Is another volume, maybe two, missing? Did Kat perchance destroy them?
Instead, this one is half Workshop in Political Theory notes, followed by extensive Snyder transcriptions, many of them no doubt from the Lilly Library.
The chronological sequence is ruptured.
And there’s nothing personal, beyond that, in these pages.
We must have made an earlier trip to Bloomington, because I have a listing of research deadlines as of 6/6/74 but apparently for 1975.
Then the minutes from a trip to my first board of consultants’ meeting soon follow.
From there are many penciled Snyder transcriptions; am guessing they’re from Lilly Library. My deep immersion in that sanctum.
Gary was, in many of these, far more prosaic than I now expected. Perhaps that’s a liberating insight!
As for the Stoney Lonesome poetry crowd or Bloomington Quakers? So far, nothing.
That was about to change, though. And how.
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Stretching between the courthouse square and downtown and the college campus, behind the camera, iconic Kirkwood Avenue figures prominently in my novel What’s Left as well as the earlier, Daffodil Uprising, though not by name. This time I would be living to the west of downtown. Photo by Yahala via Wikimedia Commons.
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From Spiralbound Hoosier, with commentary from now.
Upcoming presentations will break from the chronological sequence into topics, as you’ll see. Our life was getting richer in everything but money.
Jnana's Red Barn 