Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse’s likeness upon a mountain. It took 50 years to complete the head, which measures 90ft from crown to chin. By comparison, the four presidents at Mt Rushmore seem modest. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
McCarthy’s prose in ‘Blood Meridian’ comes blazing from the Book of Revelation. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam’s rib. Then there’s Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn’t changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean – one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when he embraces the Sabbath bride. I see western swing performing a similar function in hardscrabble Texas, turning dirt-poor hired hands into Dapper Dans with magic feet at the Saturday night hoe-down. Clive Sinclair Read Quote
