Literature seizes a moment of real life and sends it into a new universe. Literature is not real life, but from time to time the search for the fantastic sits in a yawing gap between fiction and reality. As nature abbors inbalance, a correction must be made.
Up in Canada on the pages of the nationally recognised Inditer.com Press, a quiet revolution is underway against the stock and formula stories in search of a praise for real life. The Leader is the Inditer's editor Bill Loeppkey and Don Grant Deman, its premier ecrivian.
In the Safe Cracker, we see what many cops I have met or cross-examined mights privately call a good "cop-to-crook" relationship. Perhaps in some parts of the United States, we could set the cops and the crooks in difference dialiects. But in others, the cop might sit along side the crook whittling.
While there is a chase scene in the opening paragraph, in Safe Cracker, most crooks like the retiring safecracker peacefully surrender to police. . The major accomplishment of Safe Cracker is its expression of the magic of real life. The cop-to-crook rapport and that grudging humanism which moves the cop to allow the crook to retire in peace or in pieces makes Safecracker worthy of comparisson to the father of the short story form O'Henry (the American William Sidney Porter).
Most of my criminal clients by the bye were more like the Safecracker than any body you'd find in TV. Few ever raised a fist in anger; most surrendered to the police peacefully, and a great majority rendered confessions.
Every once in a while a correction must be made to make literature expressive of real life. In Knight of te Pistle (Ben Jonson, if memeory serve me) "the audience" rebels against the stock Knight-in-shining armor story, the high speed police chasse of the Shakesperian age and calls upon the author to write a story about themselves.
O'Henry (WS Porter) emerged in Father Knickerbocker's New York with that same principle: literature such reflect life not reinvent it. O'Henry rebelled against the High Victorian melodrama set in the upper middle class drawing rooms where wives and husbands "did" each other for insurance proceeds or fantastic inheritances. Instead O'Henry wrote of the cop on the beat, the little boy who missed school, the town drunk, people you might meet on the street.
Will Grant and the Inditer head the next revolution in literature as O'Henry and the New York Sun did a century ago?
We certainly encourage to do so and hope Grant will perserve. O'Henry himself spent many hours in Madison Park watching the sparrows on his way to fame.
Read Safe Cracker now on Inditer.com
With typical modesty Don Grant Deman replies: To be the Canadian Chocolate bar or to just have the muchies!
Lisa Marie Brennan
In the spirit of reflection,
Lisa Marie Brennan, 23, has a new 30 page chapbook of poetry for sale
titled, "Poems From The Heart." The book was just published this month
by, "The Plowman Publishing," in Canada. The book is 30 pages and
contains some of Lisa's newer poems on life, relationships, and the loss
of loved ones. To order Lisa's book please send $8.00 to: Lisa Marie
Brennan, 160 Magnolia Street, Ukiah, Ca 95482 or e-mail her for more
info at: lisa@saber.net Lisa is a poet, songwriter, and has just
finished a novel. Her first book of poetry, "Read Me A Poem," was
published last year. It was 82 pages and has sold many copies. It is
also available for $12.00 at the same address above.
Loeppky v Munson
The pause for reflection reaches the fundamentals of democratic order.
While Hill has been fighting an up-Hill battle for her quest to be madam of the big house,
the pages of Inditer have been filled with the debate over
American Democracy with its definite election days against Canadian
parliamentary democracy.
The fur flies as Bill Loeppky the beloved editor of Inditer has locked horns with
American writer
Kimit Munson of the LA Times in a debate over the merits of the two systems.
visit The Inditer.com
Editors Choice: THE RPPS Salutes the Dogs
The Dog Days of Summer
This is the RPPS Dog Days Edition and as we hit the dog days of august
the RPPS has gone to the dogs dedicating this issue to them. The Rockaway
Park Philosophical Society as the only such Society which appoints Societal Hounds for their
intrinsic Philosophical worth from time to time discourses on
the sociological value of canine companionship.
Dogs come in all sizes and shapes from the tea cup poodle to the great dane.
And in America the standard family unit includes two kids and a dog, sometimes
a wife too.
As Fathers (and Mothers) of their country, the First Family at the White House has been famed for its dogs. Fallah (fellow)
FDR's scrappy terrier had his own press corps and press secretary. And the country has been generally
more loyal to the First Dog than its master. On the FDR memorial,
you got it, there is Fallah standing faithfully at attention right next to wheel chair bound Roosevelt.
Didn't FDR's successor, Harry Truman, say if you wanted a friend in Washington
go buy a dog?
And The White House dog controls a powerful public following for the President.
When LBJ picked up his twin beagles by their ears,
a greater national outcry followed than witnessed in the protests against the Vietnam
War.
The White House Dog can make or break Presidents.
Nixon's dog Checkers may have saved the Chief's career temporarily.
Even with a loyal following in the press and public,
the White House dog may never bite the hand that feeds
Ronald Reagan's Golden Retriever was retired to the ranch ahead of the president
when he started eating his master's jelly beans. "Goldie" who stood
tall in the saddle with the master to survive both political
crisis and messing much of the White House carpets found his career cut short when he
challenged the Chief Jelly Beaner.
Sadly the long line of White House dogs has come to an end.
Millie served as the last White House Dog as the loyal canine companion to the short lived
Bush administration. When Millie was voted out with her boss, the White House became a cat house for
President Clinton prefers the feline.
Will there be a new White House Dog?
Hopefully the new President will restore the canine community
to its rightful place. What animal would Pat-Robertson look alike George Bush Jr or Albert Gore
with his Snidley Whiplash charm or long-shot Pat Buchanan
bring to the White House?
I don't know. But we won't be sad to see the White House turned over to the dogs.
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