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Gregory was my first choice. Since I’ve just shaped a realistic mock up of my MS, with page numbers left and right where I probably want them, it’s now time to raise steam, go to my wheelhouse with the harbor pilot, check the blue and yellow on the radar screens, alert the engine room crew, cast the ropes off, let a long honk echo around the bay, and make screw turns to slide into the Inland Sea. All ashore that’s going ashore.
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Hands to dance and skylark.
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Write your own publicity. Worked for Whitman!*

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/...d-his-own-book

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Self-reliant, with haughty eyes, assuming to himself all the attributes of his country, steps Walt Whitman into literature, talking like a man unaware that there was ever hitherto such a production as a book, or such a being as a writer. Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood in the presence of a superior.
Anyway, good luck and congrats on the book.

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“Apparently, they did not help sales much,” according to Whitman scholar Ivan Marki.

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Ann, I sense an allusion to Horatio Hornblower, hero of novels about the Napoleonic wars and the days of canvas sail. Well written, they.

Mark, since my MS is a 70,000 hp diesel-electric Motor Ship (MS Of Course,) — not an SS or HMS — I should have said something about throttles, giant clutches, and reversing gear cages instead of steam. Actually, as you note, Whitman’s fawning self puff didn’t help much, according to the linked article. I’m wondering if I should develop some of his “tedious and helpless prose” (Atlantic Magazine, 1880s) to get great. The harbor pilot is consulting the charts on pp 36-38 of Michael Cantor’s “Furusato.”

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