Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson

Nov 10 ’04

Dear Simsy—

Lissen. Re my postcards. See RCF, Barth/Markson issue, Volume X No. 2, Summer 1990, Page 158—sixteen lines up from the bottom, the four-word sentence in the middle of the line.⁴⁸

Otherwise, I hope neither of you slashed your wrists after the election.⁴⁹ I was gonna jump off the roof here, but my sciatica hurt too much for me to get over the railing.

Thine—

D.

48 “He writes only postcards.” Beside which I had written in the margin: “Not entirely true!” From the essay, “Markson’s New Way,” by Burton Feldman, in RCF, Summer 1990, Vol. 10 No. 2.

49 George W. Bush was the victor, again.