Central Machine Works
Ventura Did Cather's Writing Justice
RECEIVED Sat., Aug. 29, 2009
Michael Ventura,
Re: “Letters at 3AM: Coming, Aphrodite!” [Aug. 28]: Willa Cather is in your debt. There are few among us that could have done her writings justice as you have done, and I too am in your debt for the introduction to someone who could write such lines about riding the train back to Nebraska as, "Even in my sleep I know when I have crossed the river." It is the same with me about Austin. My first trip across the Colorado by train was in the summer of 1935 when flood waters were almost lapping at the tracks. I was 3 years old traveling alone. My desire for Austin was so strong that I had talked my parents into trusting me to the conductor who watched over me until my grandparents met me at the station.
Re: “Letters at 3AM: Coming, Aphrodite!” [Aug. 28]: Willa Cather is in your debt. There are few among us that could have done her writings justice as you have done, and I too am in your debt for the introduction to someone who could write such lines about riding the train back to Nebraska as, "Even in my sleep I know when I have crossed the river." It is the same with me about Austin. My first trip across the Colorado by train was in the summer of 1935 when flood waters were almost lapping at the tracks. I was 3 years old traveling alone. My desire for Austin was so strong that I had talked my parents into trusting me to the conductor who watched over me until my grandparents met me at the station.
Dan Crow