{"id":3838,"date":"2012-08-14T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2013-11-06T16:50:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:50:37","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-august-30-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-august-30-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall, August 30, 1984"},"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, August 30, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840830-001-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, August 30, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840830-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, August 30, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840830-002-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, August 30, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840830-002-unh.jpg\" \/><\/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;\">August 30, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>How sloppy of me to write \u201cpassed\u201d instead of \u201cperished\u201d in the<br \/>\nline I quoted from \u201cFelix\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway \u2013 to set your mind at rest \u2013 I do not find \u201cFelix\u201d in any<br \/>\nway confusing except <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">maybe<\/span> for that section where he is recalled as<br \/>\n\u201cwater logged,\u201d for the reasons I said that section <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">might<\/span> be confusing.<br \/>\nPerhaps I am at fault and not you. However that may be, the plot<br \/>\nis clear to me, and was before your explanation.<\/p>\n<p>I still would like a different presentation of the narrator in<br \/>\nthe poem, as I mentioned in the letter before last. Nonetheless, I<br \/>\nthink the material you are working with there is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">rich<\/span> \u2013 enough so<br \/>\nthat I wouldn\u2019t mind working on it myself!<\/p>\n<p>Love, Wes<\/p>\n<p>P.S. The Ragpicker is a good poem, Wendell Berry be damned!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3838\" data-postid=\"3838\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3838 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] August 30, 1984 Dear Don, How sloppy of me to write \u201cpassed\u201d instead of \u201cperished\u201d in the line I quoted from \u201cFelix\u201d! Anyway \u2013 to set your mind at rest \u2013 I do not find \u201cFelix\u201d in any way confusing except maybe for that section where he is recalled as \u201cwater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60366,35504,77589,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838"}],"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\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10678,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/10678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}