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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=498197" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Part 1 of Trout Fishing in America</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE COVER FOR</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cover for Trout Fishing in America is a photograph taken</div><div style="margin:10px 0">late in the afternoon, a photograph of the Benjamin Franklin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">statue in San Francisco's Washington Square.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Born 1706--Died 1790, Benjamin Franklin stands on a</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> pedestal that looks like a house containing stone furniture.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> He holds some papers in one hand and his hat in the other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the statue speaks, saying in marble:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">  PRESENTED BY</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  H. D. COGSWELL</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  TO OUR</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  BOYS AND GIRLS</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  WHO WILL SOON</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  TAKE OUR PLACES</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  AND PASS ON.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Around the base of the statue are four words facing the</div><div style="margin:10px 0">directions of this world, to the east WELCOME, to the west</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WELCOME, to the north WELCOME, to the south WELCOME.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just behind the statue are three poplar trees, almost leafless</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> except for the top branches. The statue stands in front</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of the middle tree. All around the grass is wet from the</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> rains of early February.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"> In the background is a tall cypress tree, almost dark like</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a room. Adlai Stevenson spoke under the tree in 1956, before</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> a crowd of 40, 000 people.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There is a tall church across the street from the statue</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with crosses, steeples, bells and a vast door that looks like</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> a huge mousehole, perhaps from a Tom and Jerry cartoon,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> and written above the door is 'Per L'Universo.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Around five o'clock in the afternoon of my cover for</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trout Fishing in America, people gather in the park across</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> the street from the church and they are hungry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's sandwich time for the poor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they cannot cross the street until the signal is given.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then they all run across the street to the church and get</div><div style="margin:10px 0">their sandwiches that are wrapped in newspaper. They go</div><div style="margin:10px 0">back to the park and unwrap the newspaper and see what their</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sandwiches are all about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A friend of mine unwrapped his sandwich one afternoon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and looked inside to find just a leaf of spinach. That was all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was it Kafka who learned about America by reading the</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> autobiography of Benjamin Franklin..............</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kafka who said, 'I like the Americans because they are healthy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and optimistic.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Brautigan">Richard Brautigan</a><div class=q>
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