For Dick and Karen and Family: a very Merry and Peaceful Christmas and good health in the upcoming year. This is too brief to distill the grattitude I have for your friendship, so I'll just use the words of Hilaire Belloc, "May all my enemies go to hell. Noel, noel, noel!"
Merry Christmas to you and your family as well! And that Hilaire Belloc verse is one I included in my 1984 "Devils of Book of Verse," which got banned soon after publication by the company that had purchased my publisher, Dodd Mead. The head of the Thomas Nelson Bible Co. objected to the poem "Winter is icumen in" because it contained the word "goddamm" 10 or 20 times. "Who is this geek Ezra Pound?" he demanded, and can't you find better poets than that?" It didn't help that the book's cover featured an image of the devil twirling his tail. Thank you for your friendship, John, and your help with many more successful books after that one.
For Dick and Karen and Family: a very Merry and Peaceful Christmas and good health in the upcoming year. This is too brief to distill the grattitude I have for your friendship, so I'll just use the words of Hilaire Belloc, "May all my enemies go to hell. Noel, noel, noel!"
Merry Christmas to you and your family as well! And that Hilaire Belloc verse is one I included in my 1984 "Devils of Book of Verse," which got banned soon after publication by the company that had purchased my publisher, Dodd Mead. The head of the Thomas Nelson Bible Co. objected to the poem "Winter is icumen in" because it contained the word "goddamm" 10 or 20 times. "Who is this geek Ezra Pound?" he demanded, and can't you find better poets than that?" It didn't help that the book's cover featured an image of the devil twirling his tail. Thank you for your friendship, John, and your help with many more successful books after that one.
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Thank you, Jude.
Lovely remembrance, Richard.
Thank you, Michael.