Show Says N Needs A People Not Intrigue By o. o E. E I hate e- e because it is so vulgarly untrue How much Is there thereIn In the liCo of decent ordinary country It seems to me that We should aim higher in literary art It must be OL some possible day you u. u see 11 LU the average decent man and woman wo- wo man so interestingly that even people stop and listen to the story Up here in Minnesota we have no faIrIes And very few devIls Our supply is just about run out nor do we care to Import any But the average man is quite plentiful and that being the case there is no lack of to write about for life is dramatic Can you name me a greater drama than life itself Is my Ideal unattainable I dont don't think so If that were the case narrative art would by and by disappear dis- dis appear from the face of the earth There is no mula fol-mula In lite you h ve to mae a new equation for every human being that along shouldn't same be betrue true of the pictures taken fron Of course there were other motives mo- mo tives prompting me to write Peder Victorious I much saId in GIants of the only Earth a O. O I fractional part so it seems to me Ian especially the cannot tear hImself from the soIl he I has been rooted in for centuries and move to a new land where even the vely all all' chilIs by its strangeness without paying a great price There is intImate between the soIl and the soul To build a fath rland r- r land Is a long process So of the story of the transplantation of the non English immigrant has yet been told In fiction Not even the surface has been Changing an Irishman Scotchman or an an AmerIcan Is one thing transforming a German Germanor or a ScandInavian Is quite another he givIng up of one language and the acquiring of a n w forever for for- ever bo beyond the power of the average man He cant can't gIve up the old because that would mean death to him and he cant can't master the new Its him And home foundIng in the wilderness doesn't leave the average man much opportunity for language study 1 dont don't mean just picking up a few words used In trade and travel travel- that most can do 1 am speaking of masterIng a foreign language so intimately that Its foul becomes your own not until that Is done can one feel fully at home in the new country should it be so difficult for the average AmerIcan to understand this are a few of the Incentives which made me write Peder Victorious I paInfully how little 1 succeeded in getting told all there was to tell Perhaps r had better try to write one more vol me |