At 12:05 AM 3/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 00:03:56 EST
>From: MWhite8482@aol.com
>To: dpwhite@eden.rutgers.edu
>Subject: The ever-interesting MacDonald
theories
>
>Ross MacDonald's influences have definitely come from
earlier lit... I can
see
>that The Great Gatsby was a major influence, the
ideals of a dream, a
>mysterious past, an unattached character... Another
influence I'm sure, is
>Henry James... The last one third of his novel The
American had MacDonald
>written all over it... It's an interesting idea that
possibly MacDonald's
>theme of family pasts and crime could just be a
metaphor for his use of past
>American Lit.... While we fail to admit it, our past
has influenced our lives
>today greatly, and I think MacDonald knew it... I
would love to know the
topic
>of Millar's thesis at Michigan State, and if anyone
knows it, please let the
>list know.....
>
>-Dave
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University of Iowa Law Library
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