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Michael Carter.

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Well, Steve had some
unorthodox methods of teaching.

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And we were packing up some
of the books in his office

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this afternoon.

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And in putting the
books away, I remembered

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even before I was a
student in the program,

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I was living here in Tucson.

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And I had met Steve
through a mutual friend.

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And one day, he
and Jon Anderson

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came over to my apartment.

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I was living on 12th
Street by the plasma donor

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center over there.

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And Steve at that
time, Steve and Gail

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were living just
a few blocks away.

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Steve and Jon came into
my room, my bedroom,

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and they started pulling
books out of my shelves

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and piling them up.

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And after they had gone through
it, they pointed to the books.

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And they said, now you're never
allowed to read those again.

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They were books like Donald
Davey and Yvor Winters.

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They were putting a ban on
these writers for a time,

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I thought that I
would read something

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from one of Steve's letters.

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So in 1999, a few weeks
before Steve and I

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were to teach together
at Warren Wilson College,

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he sent me a letter
in which he described

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the importance of having at
least one intimate friend

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to pal around with
during the residency,

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so that every once in a
while they could get deeper

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into friendship.

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He offered this as an example
of the deeper friendship, quote,

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"one late night last
residency with Tony.

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And I'm in my chair,
and he's sitting

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cross-legged on my
bed in his long johns.

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On his head, a
bright yellow t-shirt

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tied up to stay put, not
like an Arab headdress,

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but like a what?

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A clown hat or something--

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I laughed at him and he said
in his defining, factual,

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defending, self-laughing
way, that bald people lose

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most of their body heat
through their heads.

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I tell you, I love friendship
more than anything in life."

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