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Nikkibar at aol.com
Nikkibar at aol.com
Wed Jul 30 09:13:08 EDT 2003
Dear Rhonda,
The Civil War magnum opus is somewhat daunting and certainly time consuming.
On the other hand if you're interested in the Civil War it is the definitive
work on the subject at least for our generation. More to the point so far as
filling in the points of interest that one might have if you approach Foote
mainly from the direction of Percy, I would suggest you sneak up on the Civil War
by reading the Foote novel canon, starting with Follow Me Down and then
deciding where to go from there, ending with September September.
Bear in mind when pursuing this course that Walker and Shelby both were
youthful builders of model airplanes. Walker built the balsa and tissue paper type
which we are told flew like crazy and were meant to fly but his planes had a
certain rag tag appearance. Shelby built the other type which came in shaped
chunks of wood that you glued together and sanded down endlessly, painted with
dope and glued on the window labels -- and then hung from a light fixture in
the bedroom. They looked great but would not fly nor were they meant to.
Biographers and critics have remarked that the same sort of thing tends to happen in
their respective novels. I leave it to you to see if you agree.
Nikki
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