{"id":2221,"date":"2012-04-30T12:35:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2013-12-17T17:46:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T21:46:02","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-january-18-1983-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-january-18-1983-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: January 18, 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, January 18, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19830118-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, January 18, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19830118-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[Click image to view]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: white; padding-left: 30px;\">18 January 1983<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>I take it that old Costanzo is keeping you waiting?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure that the slaughtered animals comes entirely<br \/>\ntogether now\u2026 And I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">am<\/span><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 19px;\"> sure that it is close. I\u2019m not sure<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span> about the title. The verb \u201cfind\u201d doesn\u2019t really work much<br \/>\nwith the second stanza. I just think it might be called The<br \/>\nSlaughtered Animals\u2026 I like the first stanza perfectly.<br \/>\nIn the second stanza, you have two very boring verbs \u2013 \u201care\u201d<br \/>\nand \u201chaving.\u201d I don\u2019t think you could stand both of them.<br \/>\nWhat about: \u201cAnd the great bull\/ remain on their knees\/ having<br \/>\nlost the idea\/ of how to stand.\u201d I\u2019m not sure about the third<br \/>\nline in my version\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Then the sheep seems to me to give more problem. In the<br \/>\nother cases, the sheep cannot find their heads because they<br \/>\nare slaughtered\u2026 That is, the lack of heads and the slaughtering<br \/>\nare two sides of each other\u2026 Same with the bulls being unable<br \/>\nto stand\u2026 That is an immediate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sign<\/span> of their dying. Well,<br \/>\nthings that are dead can\u2019t talk either\u2026but that isn\u2019t what<br \/>\nyou first think of. Chickens lose their heads, bulls fall to<br \/>\nthe ground\u2026sheep stop bleating? It seems more distant, some-<br \/>\nhow. And then these \u2013 as opposed to the others, that do what<br \/>\nthey really do \u2013 keep moving. Chickens do indeed keep moving,<br \/>\nafter their heads are gone. And they might well be searching<br \/>\nfor their heads\u2026 But not the sheep. I mean to say, it is<br \/>\ngoofy and exciting \u2013 but I don\u2019t think it adds up.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing you later.<\/p>\n<p>Glad you have been reading that writer you mentioned.<br \/>\nDid you see him in last Sunday\u2019s New York Times, book review,<br \/>\nThe Making of a Writer?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Haines is wonderful. Maybe the Louis Simpson<br \/>\nis the best of all. Have you seen that one?<\/p>\n<p>Love to you both,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2221\" data-postid=\"2221\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2221 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 18 January 1983 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, I take it that old Costanzo is keeping you waiting? I\u2019m not sure that the slaughtered animals comes entirely together now\u2026 And I am sure that it is close. I\u2019m not sure about the title. The verb \u201cfind\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35322,596,42965,35504,42982],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11130,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/11130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}