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   Reed Fawell 3rd

   March 6, 2018

   The Lord Root of the Matter yet again digging into Belizean dirt these many decades later, as if caught in a vision, unravels a boy’s mid-twentieth century celluloid nightmare into a Great Chain of Being that hangs down the Belizean sky in a tangle of vines that dangle finally into roots twisted and coagulated into a great dirty fuzz ball that burrows into the dirt finally, only to crawl out from the earth into a blazing sun where it crinkles up and sizzles then balloons into THEM, thousands upon thousands of creatures, that crab out across the burnt earth and keep coming at the kid with their mandibles snarling and snapping and hissing until the critters are incinerated into burnt bitty Bastards by a Belizean fire-jumper (played by James Arness) who then gets himself caught in the snout of glacier that freezes him like Burnt Norton into a monster entombed in a block of ice for twenty centuries of frozen restless sleep vexed by nightmares in a rocking cradle until it rouses itself up into The Thing, a rough beast whose hour has come round at last in a blood-dimmed tide where innocence is drowned into a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, moving its slow thighs while all about it reel shadows of the indignant desert birds until darkness drops again over that rough beast, The Thing slouching towards Bethlehem to be born Beelzebub, until its stopped dead in its tracks by Lord Root of the Matter who recently down from Henrico County meets it deep in tangles and twisted vines of a Belizean jungle.

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   Andrew Roesell

   March 7, 2018

   Dear Jim,

   Belize, will you and yours carry yourselves back to Ole Virginny soon?!?

   Jocundly,

   Andrew

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