Sprintedon Hollow

Justan Tamarind: Book I   links entry for jt                     

 This morning I found again this 1965/66 failed fantasy epic.
 I've decided to present it on 20 entries.  Therefore, each of
 the remaining 19 entries will contain five stanzas.  As I post
 it, I will try to avoid making revisions because (for historical
 reasons) I want its faults to be evident.  Yet, though before
 me I have the text of it I showed to my mentor--comments
 from him ("urp!" being part of one) persist in its margins, I'd
 already revised it some since.  Still, whatever further ones I
 make will not obliterate the essence of what I first penned. 
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 06MAY07  Late last night I read further into J T and then
                 skipped to its end.  There I discovered Alden
 St. Cloud, who had written a Proem to Book I, had also
 written a Postem to that book: a stanza which/ concludes 
 Book I so well it closes the poem, making thoughts of there
 ever being a Book II (to say nothing of a III, IV, or even a
 V) a fantasy of a fantasy.  Consequently, I now feel J T is
 best read as something one is overhearing rather than as
 something being spoken to one.                              BAJS
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 One last tidbit, not that it is tasty:  early in 1966 my 25th
 birth date occurred.

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   entry 1
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   entry 2
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   entry 3
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   entry 4
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   entry 5
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   entry 6
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   entry 7
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   entry 8
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   entry 9
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   entry 10
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   entry 11
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   entry 12
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   entry 13
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   entry 14
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   entry 15
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   entry 16
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   entry 17
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   entry 18
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   entry 19
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   entry 20 (which includes my phonetic poem: "Incantation")
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