Back to the roots! (or: new novel, good old Adams)

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 18 11:54:35 CDT 2006


Definitely.  If that blurb didn't mention Adams, The
Devil in the White City did.  SOMEBODY did. I knew I
should've followed up on that.  Kai for the kill ...

But speaking of (2) and/or (3) ...

http://www.bartleby.com/159/22.html

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hadams/eha22.html

--- davemarc <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:

> I think Kai could be on to something here....
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <kflorentzen at web.de>
>  
> > The twentysecond (!) chapter of "The Education
> > of Henry Adams" is titled:
>  
> > "Chicago (1893)". 
>  
> > In there it says: "Chicago asked in 1893 for the
> > first time the question whether the American
> > people knew where they were driving. Adams
> > answered, for one, that he did not know, but
> > would try to find out" ....

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