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E.A Rumfield
08-11-2012, 04:46 PM
A very interesting book. And may I say that I think Dos is one of the greatest writers. The book is written is such an imaginative and sometimes dreamlike way.

skating on the pond next the silver company's mills
where there was a funny fuzzy smell from the dump
whaleoil soap somebody said it was that they used in
cleaning the silver knives and spoons and forks putting
shine on them for sale there was shine on the ice early
black ice that rang like a sawblade just scratched white by
the first skaters I couldn't learn to skate and kept fall-
ing down look out for the muckers everybody said
bohunk and polak kids put stones in their snowballs write
dirty words up on walls do dirty things up alleys their
folks work in the mills

we clean young American Rover Boys handy with
tools Deerslayers played hockey Boy Scouts and cut figure
eights on the ice Achilles Ajax Agamemnon I couldn't
learn to skate and kept falling down

Seasider
08-13-2012, 09:41 AM
I read 1919 a few years ago and thought it was excellent.

Heteronym
08-14-2012, 05:28 PM
I'm interested in him because he's of Portuguese descent.