Tate for Nat

James Tate got me to read Hawthorne’s American Notebooks. It’s filled with amazing sentences like: “The history of a small lake from the first, till it was drained.” “A very fanciful person, when dead, to have his burial in a cloud.” “A young girl inherits a family grave-yard.” “A young man finds a portion of the skeleton of a mammoth.” “Herman Melville went away, after breakfast.” It’s a big book, you’ll find great writing all through it.