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| Reply To: | "Let us not speak foul in folly!" - ][<en Phollit |
| Date: | Sun, 16 Mar 2003 07:28:05 -0800 |
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Ken, A cattle ranching school? That's a far cry from whacking at stones
with big hammers. But no messier. The art teacher at school does a class
in the spring where the kids get a piece of soft stone--soap stone, I
think-- and she lets them carve it up. Some of the stuff they do is pretty
interesting, but man is it ever a mess. The art room, the hall, and in
fact, the whole classroom building are covered with fine powder. Art is
the messiest class I ever saw. If you'd gone to ranching school you might
have teamed up with Baxter Black. Ruth
At 4:29 PM -0500 3/15/03, Ken Follett wrote:
>> Hey, I made it easy for a school to turn me down...
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>John: I was turned down by Deep Springs twice. Only place I ever really
>wanted to go. A 2-yr cattle ranch/school north of Death Valley. I don't
>know why now because I hate hot places. Back then it was my absolute. They
>said that due to my heavy interest in William Blake that I exceeded their
>quota for mysticism, or something much. I suppose the fact I said I wanted
>to be a poet at one of my interviews but had no idea who Gary Snyder was
>did not help. Years later Ginsberg advised me to go to Naropa University
>to The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. But by that time I was
>set cranky in my stubborn angst. I was raised around the intellectual
>hyperventittilation of Cornell. For a semi-conscious townie that is a
>brain f*ck. Wrote a letter once to Columbia Univ. telling them they did
>not know what they were missing. I'm still waiting for them to respond...
>though I like the checks pretty well they send when we fix their
>buildings. Best I ever did insofar as education was stop self-medicating
>and start busting stone. Hayvard began w/ a library and with the zeal of a
>rabid survivalist I've been accumulating books for a while now -- just
>need to make a few more adjustments. If I sum up my education into a
>nutshell it was one afternoon when the Snap-On Tools salesman we were
>building a little masonry for told me his observation of life that when we
>need to know something it happens to come along, we only need to be strong
>and ready to grab it. Education is a state of mind. ][<en
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