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February 1979

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Departments

Editor’s Note

Readers Write

Sports

A curve ball, Panic Alley, the Birch Tree

ByOur Readers
Sy Safransky's Notebook

February 1979

The eyes she discovered by a lake in thirteenth century France. They had rolled down the hillside, gathering momentum until they saw their own reflection.

BySy Safransky
Quotations

Sunbeams

The best form is to worship God in every form.

Neemkaroli Baba

February 1979

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Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Doing What I Do

Quilts

Patchwork — that extra effort — is one expression of the higher parts of the human spirit, which manage to come out under all but the most adverse circumstances.

ByJudith Goldstein
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Release

I cannot write how it was. The world shifted me too fast with each event passing before me, inflicting my nerves with flash-bulb rapidity. I was quietly startled at the fresh novelty. Numb still to the fact I was leaving, disbelieving, an embryo in limbo, sins forgiven, the timelessness suddenly and violently meaning something concrete.

ByJimmy Santiago Baca
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Small Press Review

The Fiction Of Curt Johnson

His heroes are frail — but also strong and unbreakable, because they cope with these realities, not blurring or distorting what is there, what they have done, or how they feel. And this rubs off on us, makes the reader braver about acknowledging the truth in his or her own guts.

ByJudy Hogan
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Short, Fat And Dumb With Numbers

Book Review

One great virtue of a work like The Realists is that it acts as a guide through the works of these writers, and whets the reader’s appetite. One would not think to call their lives happy — as Snow points out, a “great writer has to live with the worst side of his nature as well as the best” — but they were full and rich.

ByDavid Guy
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Chapel Hill

Eating Out; Reaping What We Sow; and Health Center

Eating out at Chapel Hill’s foreign restaurants; a review of Cary Fowler’s new guide to traditional seed varieties; and the Wholistic Health Center workshops.

Fiction

Man, Videtan Flora, And The Berendora Of Equatorial Videt

“Dangling in his face was a single stem of the graceful foliage of the Eighteenth Species. He saw then that he could not hold back, and yet must risk doing terrible damage to the crowning floral creation of the Universe. He crept forward in an agony of joy and terror.”

ByAden Field
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Faces Of India

The photographs in this selection are available as a PDF only. Click here to download.

ByRameshwar Das
Poetry

Fathers

ByDavid C. Childers
Poetry

Selected Poems

ByJerah Chadwick
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Selected Poems

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For Amy

BySandra S. Thompson
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Quiet Life In A Loud World

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