Letter From Cameron

June 14, 2007 by webmaster.

Having just made my way back across sinew, bone, wasted nerves, and the Pacific Coast Highway from a Fourth Grade camping trip where eight nominal adults withered under the attack of thirty ten and eleven-year olds; I am happy to be alive and only slightly regretful that I failed to return with the next, “Joseph Campbell Book Study.” I will use this next week to recover from that Orwellian vision of my past and have at the ready the latest installment promised, and not delivered today, of our study of the Hero’s Journey.

In the meantime, by way of an apology, and so that your endlessly active minds can have something to rest upon; I have brought you the following:

This is a section from the, “To The Reader” introduction that prefaces the novel, “Look Homeward Angel” by Thomas Wolfe in which he explains, (and in essence apologizes) to any readers from his hometown who might be offended by his deeply insightful, (and sometimes quite personal) account of life in rural North Carolina:

“We are the sum of all the moments of our lives – all that is ours is in them: We cannot escape or conceal it. If the writer has used the clay of life to make his book, he has only used what all men must, what none can keep from using. Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose.”

Thomas Wolfe was born in Ashville, North Carolina in the year 1900. He began work on, “Angel” at age twenty-six, finished shortly after, and died of milary tuberculosis of the brain in 1938, at the age of thirty-seven. “Look Homeward Angle” was his first novel and to this day is widely considered one of America’s greatest works of fiction.

On this note, young friends, I welcome you to the practice of the art of acting.

Cameron Thor

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