BOWLES PAUL Two Typed Letters Signed to Margot Mifflin one i

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BOWLES, PAUL. Two Typed Letters Signed, to Margot Mifflin, one in brown ink, concerning a meeting and interview. Each 1 page, 4to, onion skin paper; folds. Each with the original envelope. Tangier, 27 June 1982; 5 October 1983

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28 June 1982: ". . . Your project sounds extraordinary. If you feel that I could be of any use in the work you intend to do, please don't hesitate to come to Tangier and see me. . . ."
5 October 1983: "I received the interview yesterday, and am hastening to get my emendations off to you. In general it reads well. . . .
"[P]age 4, P.B.4) Well, I don't use my imagination when I'm actually writing. Before that I have to build the cosmos in which the action is going to take place. Once I've done that, I don't have to imagine, because I know what the place is like. I don't consciously record what I see. What happens is: you see, there is a digestive process, and later it comes out. . . ."