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This email arrived today from the English teacher of my 13-year-old daughter. She took Peter and Gary’s Young Writer’s Workshop at Wizard Academy this summer. – Tim Miles

“It is a landscape in a minor key. A sketchy panorama where objects, both organic and inorganic, lack well-defined edges and tend to melt together in a silver-green blur… It is a poetic setting, one which suggests inner meanings and invisible connections. The effect is distinctly Chinese. A visitor experiences the feeling that he has been pulled into a Sung dynasty painting… This Skagit Valley, in fact, inspired a school of neo-Chinese painters. In the Forties, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and their gray-on-gray disciples turned their backs on cubist composition and European color and using the shapes and shades of this misty terrain as a springboard, began to paint the visions of the inner eye. A school of sodden, contemplative poets emerged here, too.”

- Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, p. 56-57, imperfectly transcribed from seat 2E on Feb. 19, 2016, as I return home from a dim and drizzly 2 days in Oregon.

This email arrived today from the English teacher of my 13-year-old daughter. She took Peter and Gary’s Young Writer’s Workshop at Wizard Academy this summer. – Tim Miles

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