Never underestimate the capacity of writing out a notion to dissuade you from writing it.
Love these Sandy Kossin covers to Bantam’s 1969-70 SHADOW pulp reprints:
Mass exhaustion event, ctd.
complete
Collection of 1935 Street & Smith hardcover reprints of the first Shadow novels = complete:
clarity re: textual lackings
Remembering, on a deep, visceral level, what Suzuki meant in ZEN MIND, BEGINNER'S MIND when he said, in effect, that it becomes hard to talk about meditation when one has been meditating (I don't think I'm adding a meaning that isnt there in my paraphrasing but if I am, fuck it): the more I write, the further I get into the current thing, the harder it is for me to write about writing it – hence the dwindling of textual postings here (which probably means more will start to appear, maybe). Not recording / broadcasting this moment of clarity as an explanation to you (don't owe you one, sorry) but to myself. Carry(ing) on.
Promotional photo for DETECTIVE STORY HOUR radio show featuring James La Curto as The Shadow, 1930.
