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So for my first book, which
was called "White Sun Black

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Sun" in 1960, which puts
it 55 years into the past.

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The title from William
Blake, "A Little Boy Lost."

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"They took me from the
white sun and they left me

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in the black sun,
left me to sleep

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among long rows of overcoats.

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I was a city boy lost in the
country, a wound in my hand

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was all I knew about willows.

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Can you understand?

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Do you hear the wide sound
of the wind against the cow's

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side, and the
crickets that run down

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my sleeve, crickets full
of the night with bodies

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like little black suns?

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Try as I will, there is
only this cry in my heart.

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This cry.

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They took me from the
white sun and they left me

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in the black sun and I have no
way of turning now, no door."

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