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The Monday Morning Memo

Manolete_Poster4This epic image is an original 1947 street poster that never got pasted

onto a building in Spain. It’s probably the only one like it in the world. Although Manolete was to be the headline attraction at this event, he did not appear. Four days earlier is when the bull survived, and Manolete did not.

Fortunately, everyone was gazing out the window when it came up for auction in Florida last week and the wizard emerged as high bidder. This poster is now being crated for shipment to Austin where it will patiently wait for The House of The Lost Boys to be built. Manolete will be the first of the Lost Boys.

Other Lost Boys being considered for induction are John Kennedy Toole, Jack Kerouac, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman. If you want to suggest others, email your suggestions and arguments to Daniel@WizardAcademy.org

The House of The Lost Boys will be the masculine corollary to Engelbrecht House, that house of the Broken Angels. (Engel “Angel” Brecht “Broken”)

Other masculine/feminine dualities on campus are
(1.) the life-size statues, Into the Wind and The Old Man and the Sea that cap each end of Carricula Way, the underground approach to the tower, and
(2.) the Bell Wall built by the Belles of La Mancha and the Garden of Joy built by the Brothers of the Mudd.

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“Did you read Beryl Markham’s book, “West with the Night”? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer’s log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and some times making an okay pig pen. But this girl who is, to my knowledge, very unpleasant,… can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people’s stories, are absolutely true. So, you have to take as truth the early stuff about when she was a child which is absolutely superb. She omits some very fantastic stuff which I know about which would destroy much of the character of the heroine; but what is that anyhow in writing? I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody, wonderful book.”

- Ernest Hemingway, in a letter to his friend Maxwell Perkins in 1942

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