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  Copyright © 2013 by Powers Family Literary Property Trust

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  First edition, 2013

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Powers, J. F. (James Farl), 1917–1999.

  [Correspondence. Selections]

  Suitable accommodations: an autobiographical story of family life: the letters of J. F. Powers, 1942–1963 / edited by Katherine A. Powers. — First edition.

  pages cm

  Includes index.

  ISBN 978-0-374-26806-0 (hardcover)

  1. Powers, J. F. (James Farl), 1917–1999—Correspondence. 2. Authors, American—20th century—Correspondence. I. Powers, Katherine A., 1947–editor of compilation. II. Title.

  PS3566.O84 Z48 2013

  813'.54—dc23

  [B]

  2013010997

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  *The thing I remember and remember is where that fat kid is caught eating out of the candy case. Shades of Uncle Bud!

  *made to priest’s specifications, and there are bigger ones at St John’s, and there is no limit, evidently, on size; size being—hell, I don’t know—I’m just trying to fill you in on details as I understand them.

  *I have just recently given birth to a Big Catholic Layman by that name—and suppose he’ll have to be renamed.16

  * the Trapp family without music, or the awfulnesses we have in the Movement: ice cream and Coke and noise and children at four in the afternoon. The Baptism Party.

  = Abigail considered it “immature” of us to go off to Madeline Island without our wives.

  = Jackie Gleason apparently is indulging this feeling in his private life. Open house, his friends around him, plenty to eat and drink. What is it?

  = Dick Keefe fell farthest, I sometimes think, away from this—whatever it is.

  = I have despaired of it myself. But my standards have risen—am not so easily entertained now.

  = Don H. is always ready for it. But cannot instigate anything.

  = I can—but I want the real thing. Not Hynes in his county agent role.

  = Fred Petters is good but compromised by his life—at least he thinks he is.

  = Joe O’Connell, yes.

  * Maybe I could bring myself to pay you what I owe, in that event.

  * Like me.

  * Which also applies to Betty.

  * Betty, that is.

  * Featured with Lawrence Welk.

  * Malcolm Muggeridge, if not Martin Green.

  * Cribbed from Fr Urban, the hero of my novel.

  * Our colors were brown and white, on account of the Franciscans.

  * Betty is for Ireland again.

  * And sisters, including Carmelites.

 


 

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