12/8/2023 0 Comments Bookwright problems![]() Music has always been an important part of my life. We did have a small, eclectic, and impressive music collection: Fats Waller, Ted Lewis, Eddie Duchin, George Gershwin, Enrico Caruso, Grace Moore, John Charles Thomas, and so on. My childhood was not entirely bereft of the fine arts. I studied the drawings and let the images tell me the story. I read comic books-or looked at them, I should say. Copying and tracing the illustrations abetted my drawing skills, but the text did nothing for my reading. When I was ten my aunt and uncle gave us the 1950 World Book Encyclopedia. My mother read condensed novels and my daddy read the local papers. When I was a boy we might have had a dozen books in the house. I was never diagnosed with dyslexia, but I raised a daughter who was, and as I watched her struggle with reading I came to the conclusion that this probably had been my problem, too. Reading was painful for me and I avoided it. I drew on anything near at hand: stationery, tissue paper, wax paper, brown paper bags, cardboard, walls, and anything else I could find, including dirt.īut I did not read. I drew naked women (lots of them), gladiators, cowboys and Indians, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He was right, however, when he said that I sat around drawing. In a letter he wrote to me shortly before he died he said that all I did was sit around drawing pictures and reading books while he cut the grass, cleaned out the gutters, and painted the trim on the house. ![]() MY BROTHER SAID that I was a lazy dreamer when I was a kid.
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