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...didn't. He never caught for anyone. By his own admission, Poet Donald Hall (Kicking the Leaves, The Toy Bone), is the nonpareil indoorsman. In school, when he went out for the baseball team, "they didn't cut me, they just laughed at me." He even dropped fly balls in the stands. Yet he kept up with the sport, attracted by "an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons...
...group's seeming misfit was the moody indoorsman Raymond Chandler, who told his host that he had learned how to build suspense by constructing his own characters on the framework of an Erle Stanley Gardner story. The Master was pleased; he never read anything but the competition and found them all, including Agatha Christie, inferior plotters. Yet he could be generous in praise of others' use of character and atmosphere...
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