![]() ![]() During that trip the two became real friends. I took the photo to the left just before Barbara and my aunt Frances left for a trip together to Yuma - where the artist had her first glimpse of Roxaboxen, with Frances there to tell her about all they did back then. Before she began the art this justly-famous artist learned - as I myself had done before I began to write the text - just about everything possible about Roxaboxen - from my mother’s handwritten 1916 book, from all the information I had my aunts and others still alive who had played there - and of course from my own memories of what my mother had told me when she was alive. The words I wrote to tell about this memorable place created by children were published as a book in 1991 with luminous illustrations by Barbara Cooney. ![]()
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These "mentalists," born from vaudeville, circuses, sideshows, and the Spiritualist and New Thought movements of the mid-late 19th century, used the language of wireless technology to explain their ability to see the past, present, and future. ![]() Performers claiming psychic powers turned radio broadcasting into a fabulous money machine. Some thought it would dissolve the distance between time and place, others that human minds would become transparent, one tuned to another. When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age. ![]() ![]() ![]() There really isn't a plot and the book is mostly Prudence 'Rue' bossing people around, insulting her friends and the natives, and pondering endlessly about clothing with companion Prim. Lots of endless fashion discussions ensue. ![]() She chances upon a conspiracy there and sort of accidentally ends up helping the situation from getting out of hand. 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This article examines intertextuality in the novel Tyll, by Daniel Kehlmann, from 2017. ![]() |