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Tuesday, July 01, 2003 ( 11:41 AM ) Garrett Author went from librarian to writer Thanks ! LIS News!!!! # ( 7:17 AM ) Garrett Robert McCloskey's obitutary from the Globe I was not aware that Robert McCloskey was still alive. Still have a signed copy of Centerburg Tales which the author autographed at the Little Professor bookstore in Lexington, nearly thirty years ago. It's a nice obituary and yet curiously it omits mention of this and its superior predecessor Homer Price. The latter would seem to have been informed by McCloskey's descripition of his youth quoted in the Globe article. ''I collected old electric motors and bits of wire. ... I built trains and cranes with remote control, my family's Christmas trees revolved, lights flashed, and buzzers buzzed, fuses blew, and sparks flew! The inventor's life was the life for me, that is, until I started making drawings.'' There was more than motors and inventions. The Homer Price books played wonderfully on themes of the Iliad and the Odyssey, with the uncles Ulysses and Telemachus, the story of the Penelope-like woman courted by both Telly and the sherriff, the allusions to other stories such as Rip van Winkle and the Pied Piper ... "I got the idea from Homer; not me, but the ancient one," says Homer. And the doughnut story was endlessly entertaining, and my son finds likewise today. # Monday, June 30, 2003 ( 8:26 AM ) Garrett 10 lies about Iraq (AlterNet) # |
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