secret in creating
“The secret in creating anything new seems to lie in borrowing all you see and hear about you and adding one small touch.” Page 96.
The Bronc People. Eastlake, William. Albuquerque, NM: UNM Press, c. 1957, 1975.
secret in creating
Rereading the book, I kept running into a pencil notation, an underlined passage, a single margin note, something. My original undergraduate notes are there, mostly in pencil and black ink, but I kept hitting “SI98,” and I couldn’t fathom the meaning of my own shorthand.
The Bronc People
A little later, it finally became more clear: 5/98, the time of the new notes. Places it in a trailer park — old Austin, the time that was before.
Cover shot answer to the question.
Leisurely rereading.
The genius of the creation is this precedes Edward Abbey, Tom Robbins, and the merry pranksters all cavorting up and down the Louisiana Purchase, the face of the American West.
