The guru introduced me to "archy and mehitabel" a few years ago and recently re-introduced me to them. I've never really looked into them much for lack of time, but he assures me there's a lot of wisdom in them for those who can see it. Here's part of his email on the subject with a couple links. I neglected to ask his permission first, but all things considered, I know he'll forgive me.
Mom …got hooked on Don Marquis and his columns in the paper and even purchased his signed book, "archy and mehitabel" as well as several others. I was raised on them, mom read them to me, and then I learned to read them myself and understand the allusions and meanings as a very young lad.
And here is the song of mehitabel: http://donmarquis.com/literature?pp=608, one of my favorites
Read more here at the sites root: http://donmarquis.com/
Oh, since archy is a cockroach, he can't hit the shift key on the typewriter as he writes all the stories overnight for Don to publish the next morning, so everything is in lower case without most punctuation.
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2 comments:
I've had this book around for years without reading it. Always thought it would be worth a look though and I might get around to it yet.
This might be the winter for it, Ralph!
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