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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The Man Who Created Paradise
  • Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:11:03 -0500

Bob, What a great story and website! Thanks for sharing!--Sage

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:45:51 -0700 (PDT)
bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
I just read this story by Gene Logsdon. It was worthy of a foreward by Wendell Berry. It is maybe the best Logsdon story I have read. The ending is not what you might expect when you read the foreward;...bobford
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From the foreward:

"This, then, is a story of two visions: one of disease, one of health. Or to put it another way, Gene Logsdon has had the generosity and the courage to allow a vision of Hell to call forth in himself its natural opposite.
But can we properly dignify the story of Wally Spero by the term “vision,” or is it merely a reactionary fantasy? In my opinion, if you think this is merely a fantasy, you had better be careful.
If you can look at the landscapes produced by strip mining without reacting toward some vision of the land restored, then you not only are looking at one of the versions of Hell; you are in it.

But can somebody really or “realistically” hope to accomplish what is accomplished in this story? Well, so far as I know, we don’t yet have an example of a whole new community sprouting from the spoil banks of a strip mine.
But it is possible for one inspired man and an old bulldozer to make a creditable beginning, as Gene Logsdon knows, because he has seen it, as I have myself.

Wendell Berry "





http://organictobe.org/index.php/2008/09/02/the-man-who-created-paradise-by-gene-logsdon/


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