3. See Tony Tanner, The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature (New York, 1967), for a revealing discussion of "wonder" as an essential element of the Romantic vision in American literature. Suggested as a means of "beholding" the universe and its underlying unity of all life, "wonder" emerges from it's European roots in Rosseau, Wordsworth, and Coleridge into the American Transcendental writing of Emerson, Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott. It is part of the underlying idealism of Realists Twain and James and of the essential Romanticism of such moderns as Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Stein, and such contemporaries as Salinger and Bellow. Notes and References, pg. 175, Kenneth Patchen, by Larry R. Smith etc. "men who, refusing to analyze away existence, sought instead to behold the universe and its underlying unity." L.R.Smith pg.70, Kenneth Patchen today at a bookstore (extremely disorganized and lacking in quality cream filling) when i finally got around to ordering a copy of "Raise High The Roof Beam Carpenter's and Seymour: An Introduction" the owner says to me: "you know i saw him once." "who? Salinger?" "yeah, in...(thinking)" "new hampshire?" "no, in vermont.(voice unintelligable) just across from dartmouth. nobody would admit it was him though. the whole town was protective of him." *end of unrecorded conversation* that's kinda nice don't you think? not him seeing Him but Salinger being protected by a whole town. Flowers! My friend, be delighted with what you like, but with something. Be delighted with something. Yesterday for me it was watching sun on stones; wet stones.... But today what delights me is thinking of bluepink flowers! Not that I've seen any... Actually there isn't a flower of any kind in the house- except in my head. kenneth patchen paul. p.s. what's a "gean"? from: 7. A gean floating on bark. 6. You put one here. p.s.s. why do the irish substitude placitude beautitude tute toot! "then" for "than"? p.s.s.s. can anyone tell me the name of the author or essay about the glass of rum that's given to a man before he's thrown to the firing squad and about how it's the impurities from the old fermenting vats or whatever that make the rum better than the rum that they make in the new superclean stainless steel titanium alloy plexiglass cubic zerconium fermenting vats. it's an essay about prison punishment systems and governments. thanks. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com