![]() ![]() ![]() With the rhythms and symbols of poetry one can get into a reader-open him up and while he is open introduce-things on an intellectual level which he would not or could not receive unless he were opened up. “You say the inner chapters were counterpoint and so they were-that they were pace changers and they were that too but the basic purpose was to hit the reader below the belt. There are 5 layers in this book a reader will find as many as he can and he won’t find more than he has in himself.” “Throughout I’ve tried to make the reader participate in the actuality, what he takes from it will be scaled entirely on his own depth or hollowness. ![]() ![]() Until the whole throbbing thing emerges.” (June 10, 1938) Method Slow but sure, piling detail on detail until a picture and an experience emerge. “It must be far and away the best thing I have ever attempted. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.” Anyway it is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. So I’m holding it down to approximately six pages a day. I don’t want it to go so fast for fear the tempo will be fast and this is a plodding, crawling book. Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, edited by Robert DeMott tells of the March-October, 1938 writing of Grapes, a book written in 100 “working days.” ![]()
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