{"id":2463,"date":"2012-05-10T14:58:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2013-12-17T18:11:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:11:59","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-november-4-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-november-4-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: November 4, 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, November 4, 1983, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19831104-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, November 4, 1983, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19831104-001-unh.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;\">November 4, 1983<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the note&#8211;and again to<br \/>\nJoey for the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ironwood<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span> send the poems you mentioned<br \/>\nto Jerry Costanzo&#8211;excepting, that is<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thruway<\/span>, which I\u2019m currently disenchanted<br \/>\nwith.<\/p>\n<p>How do you like my paper? I didn\u2019t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">think<\/span><br \/>\nI ordered this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">short<\/span> stationery, so had<br \/>\nto re-order the long stuff. Soon, everyone<br \/>\nwill begin to imagine I am professional<br \/>\nand thoroughly organized!<\/p>\n<p>Love to you and our<br \/>\nafflicted friend, Jane,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Editorial note about this letter:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> The text of the poem mentioned in this letter, &#8220;Thruway,&#8221; is below:<\/p>\n<p>THRUWAY<\/p>\n<p>Giants come out of the horizon<br \/>\nwith spaces in their hands.<br \/>\nFar off a bridge lifts<br \/>\nit dinosaur back. The road<br \/>\nshifts, opening a city.<br \/>\nThis is thruway, this is the great<br \/>\nhum that holds our cars<br \/>\nin the motionless center<br \/>\nof motion. We are the drivers,<br \/>\neach on his way, each<br \/>\ngoing nowhere with others.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Though I eventually pulled this poem from circulation as too weak, I used its opening image of pylons coming out of the horizon years later for my long narrative, \u201cMy Brother Running.\u201d<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2463\" data-postid=\"2463\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2463 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] November 4, 1983 Dear Don, Thank you for the note&#8211;and again to Joey for the Ironwood. I will send the poems you mentioned to Jerry Costanzo&#8211;excepting, that is Thruway, which I\u2019m currently disenchanted with. How do you like my paper? I didn\u2019t think I ordered this short stationery, so had to [&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":[35322,35504,42982,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463"}],"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=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11150,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions\/11150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}