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Three weeks ago, Aunt Eloise wired me in Germany concerning the death of Sugar-Grove, that mythic soul of Forest County, whose early memory was forged mainly in Mississippi. It is his stories, founded upon these memories, that I feel destined to dramatize. During the course of transforming his life, I personally hope to discover the meaning of existence out of this man’s divine days upon this planet.

“The pictures in my Iliad and my Famous Bible Tales reassured me, for I lived in a world of words. Duke had created this world. It was a live, whirling field of circuiting syllables crossing and re-crossing their hues and denotations until in the coiling, popping arcs of their grounded and ungrounded attractions these words became an expanding family more real than the dictionary said they referred to.”