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one person who recommended several publishers and/or agents to
me was Jilliam delige or Bill Schmit (his real name). Schmit bad
established the Theatre deLfs in New York and was in Nery Orleans
at least by late 1962 attempting to start a professional theater
there. One of the people working for him for a long while was
Vic Latham. I also worked for Schmit for awhile and was one of
the few people who didn't wind up netting ripped off by him.
(Lorraine Sinkler -- who was working, for Jim Garrison by 1968 --
also worked for Schmit at that time.)
I met a New York promotor type named Jerry one night on a bus
and it seems to me he was also associated with Schmit in some way.
As I recall, Jerry recommended a publisher for The Idle Warriors
that night on the bus, and that may have been Max Shullman,
I don't know what Jerry's last name was.
Bv the spring of 1963 The Idle Varriors was permanently on the
shelf and I had decided to become a poet instead of a novelist.
When I not news) that Oswald had returned from the Sovict Union
in 1962 I quit my job at Mark-Isaale: as a shoe calosman in order
to get a part-time JOD and start rewriting The Idle Varriors with
the idea in mind that when I reached the Fact chapter this time
around I would sot so to Dallas and visit Lee and find out directly
from him all the details I would need to set the conclusion to the
book in Moscow. But I was never able to get my economic life in
shape enough to do chio the rewrite, let alone make the trip to
Dallas. And by the time I went to work at the Whearton Gharles
Sheraton-Charles I was heavily into poetry and ready
to resign the Warriors to oblivion.
But in the spring of 1963 clint Bo] ton entered my life and
began a campaign to change all this.
Loy Ann Camp. a fellow poet named Joel Cohen, and Dave Carpenter
and I were sitting in a bar one night and Joel and I were taking
turns reading our poems.
Clint somewhat drunkenly butted in while I was reading one of
mine and began to pester me. I behaved very rudely towards him,
which didn't seem to He just stayed in there and kept
punching and we wound up `alone together in another bar talking
about Pindar by sunrise.
That morning back at Clint's house I told him about The Idle
Warriors. He said he could tell by the tone of my voice that
the Warriors was what I should be writing instead of a bunch of
"Tuesday afternoon" stuff, which is what he called my poetry.
When we got through talking that morning he said to me, "Go home
and write -- ya bum.
I don't know if I started a revrite of the Warriors then or not,
but if I did I quickly lost interest and was back to my poems and
vignettes. Clint spent hours explaining to me that I should be
writing a novel, not poems. I had a couple of other novel projects
on my mind which I had never really gotten started and once in
awhile I would go to work on one of these. But then Clint would
come up with some reason why I should be working on The Idle Varriors
instead.
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