{"id":1367,"date":"2012-02-17T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T19:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2013-12-18T20:15:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T00:15:42","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-september-3-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-september-3-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: September 3, 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\"Hall-to-McNair-01-03-1979\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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3 September 1979<\/p>\n

Wes McNair
\nBox 43
\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n

Dear Wes,<\/p>\n

Here is a book by Jenny, which includes reference to earlier
\nbooks, and a famous anthologized poem. I know that I have been in
\nanthology with her and that poem, and I cannot find it. Maybe – doubltess [sic] –
\nit is somewhere in the Colby-Sawyer library. But then, it is somewhere
\nin my library too, and I cannot find it. Jenny is a bit younger than I
\nam, and has done a lot of BBC stuff and journalism of one sort and
\nanother, as well as the books of poems which are of course what she takes
\nmost seriously.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, there would only be two possible days,
\nthe 27th or the 28th of September. She is visiting with her daughter,
\nand has a lot of things planned ahead of course, and I don\u2019t think
\nthat she could stay around or come back.<\/p>\n

Let me know just as soon as you can, please.<\/p>\n

Well, I am delighted about Fran\u2019s initial response also, and I
\nknow<\/span> that I must not be \u201cnot too hopeful\u201d and I hope to heaven you
\nknow it also. Chances are, as ever, that we will not get what we both
\nwant. But I hope that we do!<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be disturbed about me feeling that things do not work. I
\ncannot remember ever having been wholly satisfied with anything by
\nanybody I know. [Written in margin<\/em>: Or by me.]<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t feel more comfortable about that image with the o\u2019s,
\nbecause I don\u2019t know where the telephone linesman came from. I think
\nthey have to be in there, cutting and making this unnatural, artificial,
\nman-made o. I was trying to imagine a natural one, which is what I felt
\nyou had me imagining.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know whether the line would stress the car more than the
\ndriving\u2026I wasn\u2019t particularly happy about the line that I suggested.
\nBut I felt the lack of the bone, with the verb missing. I don\u2019t think
\nthat an incomplete sentence is really unusual syntax exactly. It didn\u2019t
\nbother me as being peculiar or unusual or eccentric. It bothered me
\nas seeming somehow incomplete – I mean not just incomplete in the way
\nthat it literally was. As lacking some essential organism to make it
\nthoroughly alive and vigorous.<\/p>\n

I look forward to the two longish poems, heaven knows, and everything
\nelse. Also to read the new order. I suspect that I will like it.
\nBut it is hard for me to know without actually reading through it again
\nIn the new way.<\/p>\n

I told Joey and he says cool.<\/p>\n

Love as ever,<\/p>\n

Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\n

Editorial note about this letter:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> McNair is mistaken about having sent \u201cThe Thin Man\u201d earlier and finally includes it with his next letter, on September 12. \u201cHair on Television\u201d doesn’t reach Hall until McNair sends it on September 19<\/span><\/a><\/span>.
\nA note from McNair about this letter: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Don asked for the fair copies of the new poems by telephone, telling me at that time about Bly’s poem on the subject of hair.<\/p>\n\n

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