File 2006 01 82 - Manuscript of Some thoughts about the box-car, the grain elevator, the slaughterhouse, the maximum security penitentiary and the poetry of Michael Ondaatje

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CA ON00389 F6-2-4-2006 01 82

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Manuscript of Some thoughts about the box-car, the grain elevator, the slaughterhouse, the maximum security penitentiary and the poetry of Michael Ondaatje

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  • [ca. August 1972] (Creation)

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0.1 cm of textual material (4 p.)

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(1909-1998)

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File consists of a four page typescript entitled "Some thoughts about the box-car, the grain elevator, the slaughterhouse, the maximum security penitentiary and the poetry of Michael Ondaatje". This piece is assumed to be by Watson, although it does not contain any attributive annotations. It appears to have been the early inspiration for her article, "Michael Ondaatje : The Mechanization of Death

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      Title based on contents of the file. Date range based on dates mentioned in the piece. No publication of this material, in whole or in part, without the permission of the Literary Executor. No reproduction of this material without permission of the Archivist.

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