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Advice: know/see your vision; nose (“proboscis”) to the grindstone; enjoy work (192).

Creating makes fun (192). Moviemaking is better than reading rave reviews.

Allen credits Arthur Krim for a significant part of his career. Tells the story by beginning with Krim’s anger at Allen for not using purchased source for Bananas.

Editor Ralph Rosenblum saves Take the Money and Run (177).

“an enemy of humor” (166),

The half-blood question: “[How] could he be an Indian and a white and some kind of American” (78).

Drinking, linked or chained to language (46).

Alice Munro’s Passive Voice: https://apple.news/AMNUuEt_WTMiP1kg28...

Does Munro let Fremlin “off the hook” the way she lets Steve Gauley’s father (324)?

Is “Andrew” inspired by Gerry Fremlin? If so, what an odd connection to maps (Fremlin worked as a government geographer).

Multiple authors of Bible make it tribal (33).

Unromantic statement about nobility in survival: “And when we ended up having to hurt people to stay safe, I knew we had to find better way.”

Narrator describes selves as “young ghosts,” implying some of soul passed over into death during their survival of the Sand Creek Massacre (25).

Martin hides underwater, like Misshepeshu.

So Martin Poe is from Turtle Mountain?

“Martin” says, “research gives depth to a portrayal”!

As “Martin” prepares to enter a cult, a plurality of the U.S. citizens who bothered to register to vote and then did so have, apparently, also done so.

In “The Apocalypse Book Club,” the members will discuss Russian invasion, climate change or aliens before they discuss the death & disappearance of Jordan, like the rest of us.

See the chapter “Lambsquarters” for a prescient passage about the lack of empathy for CEOs.

“…her grandfather’s bone”!

Spirit of moonshiner t disseminates on the moonshine; sugar rises on moonshine spirit.

Winnie’s dogs extend Erdrich’s canine mentions.

In Erdrich fashion, Kismet comes to her senses underwater (drowning under the Main Street Bridge.

The Gary-Kismet-Hugo triangle parallels King-Lynette-Lipsha

“Moving On” is an amazing scene about how the book group is not about the book.

Winnie is to Crystal as Pauline is to Fleur

“magnanimity of peach schnapps”

Bev and Icorp are Hugo’s parents.

“Melly” is a waitress to whom Hugo & Kismet will hold in confidence.

Worst marriage proposal ever. Almost as good as Dot’s disastrous birthday in Beet Queen.