Another letter from after Marcy\u2019s return to Antioch.<\/p>\r\n
The first few times I read the beginning of this letter, I misinterpreted it: I thought that “sitting here looking out at the snow and working diligently\u2014like a precis of one of my favorite fairytales for my fourth graders” meant that sitting and looking at the snow was like a fairy tale. But nope, it means that one of the things she\u2019s working on is writing a precis of a fairytale.<\/p>\r\n
I\u2019m particularly amused at Marcy\u2019s disdain for Bob Dylan in this letter: “Like he has some damn fine and wise and perceptive things to say about where it\u2019s at for kids and older kids, but he\u2019s really a kind of crappy person, most superficial and successful and not terribly bright\u2014this from two friends who knew him pretty well in new york last quarter.”<\/p>\r\n
Which reminds me that, given how often Marcy uses the word “like” in these letters, I\u2019m now even more eye-rolly than I used to be about people who\u2019ve objected to subsequent generations\u2019 use of ”like.”<\/p>\r\n
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\r\n\r\n [pencil: 1\/30\/66?]\r\n\r\nHello. sitting here looking out at the snow and working\r\ndiligently--like a precis of one of my favorite fairytales\r\nfor my fourth graders, makring phonics books, figuring out\r\nmath plans to teach long division and times tables (keep on\r\nhaving visions of Mrs. Weiner and the terrible times tables\r\nand all the agony we xxxxx went through and resolved to make\r\nit pleasanter for these kids), working on communications and\r\ncreativity for senior ed project, still at loose ends about\r\nnext year; at the moment I don't particularly want to teach\r\nbut not especially gung ho about anything else, with the\r\npossible exception of going to India---which will have to\r\nwait till I can in some degree afford it and find suitable\r\ntraveling companions....perhaps in a few years some\r\nfoundation will pay me to study their x primary educational\r\nsystems.\r\n\r\nalso listening to tape of Bob Dylan and his Homespun\r\nPhilosophy For Teenagers, really nauseating. Like he has\r\nsome damn fine and wise and perceptive things to say about\r\nwhere it's at for kids and older kids, but he's really a\r\nkind xxx of crappy person, most superficial and successful\r\nand not terribly bright--this from two xxxx friends who knew\r\nhim pretty well in new york last quarter. One thinks he's\r\nGod, just paid $25 for a really fine painting of him; her\r\nroommate, a really fine and perceptive gal, is really upset\r\nby such idiocy, thinks Dylan is, you should pardon the\r\nexperssion, something of an ass xxx, pompous variety.\r\n\r\nAlso kind of waiting for Carolyn to show up. She's visiting\r\nfrom x Putney, Antioch's grad school in ed in Vermont, for\r\nthe week-end, has taken off with Rhodes and hasn't been\r\nheard of since....\r\n\r\nJulie Ehrlich, [half a line xed out here] who just stuck her\r\nnose in the door, says hello and regards and all. Sally is\r\nin Berkeley this quarter, working at a bookstore. Mike is\r\nstill aroundt, still making fine films. We spend an evening\r\ntogether occasionally, very nice and all. Kind of going out\r\nwith his roommate, in a sort of accidental way.\r\n\r\nDont' know when I'll be getting to Phila; after the actual\r\ndate of lower plane fares I’ll have to figure out which\r\nweekend would be good ....will have to borrow somebody's\r\nidentification as you have to be under 22 as well as a\r\nstudent. Really an evil thing; gets you spoiled by flying\r\ncheaply and then when you get to be too old you’re in the\r\nhabit and can't stand slower transportation. \/\/\/Meantime,\r\nyou could be of much help by sending ambodryls\r\nposthaste---could also use a container of contact lens\r\nwetting solution--tremendously expensive around here. And if\r\nyou really feel ambitious, I could make good use of that\r\ngrey coat and the blue bedspread currenlty in my room.... my\r\nmadras one is getting kind of shoddy, and awful faded, and\r\nlike four years of it is just about enough. The x grey coat\r\nbecause I really need a long coat for teaching; have\r\nborrowed a leather one but it doesn't really do much for\r\nme---my jacket is still fine but need to keep moving fast to\r\nkeep warm in it, and just walking to school doesn't do the\r\ntrick, or walking around in the schoolyard. But if you don't\r\nfeel tremendously ambitious, I will be most happy with the\r\nambodryl.s.\r\n\r\nHow are the sachses and all such?\r\n\r\nsomewhere I have a receipt for the tuition bill and itemized\r\nthing but can't find it at the moment; things are a bit\r\ndisorganized, as usual.\r\n\r\nogod. now it's the beatles. grrrr.\r\n\r\nany mail from the treasury dept or keams canyon arizona?\r\nsomebody better get on the stick and send me some w-2 forms\r\npretty quick.\r\n\r\ngetting late, have to get back to the math before the\r\nlibrary decides to close,\r\n\r\ntake care,\r\n\r\n [handwritten: love, Marcia]\r\n<\/pre>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
Postmark: Jan 31, 1966, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Handwritten: “Rec'd this 2\/1” and “tell her no mail from Keams Canon + we fwded l to her from IRS some wks ago” and “ck we sent Mon 1\/2 for $50.00 not thru bank yet—also $70 on 1\/19 } why?” and “Send M allowance ck.”<\/p>\r\n
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