tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7547065615486762917.post2764175723748810265..comments2024-01-06T05:28:46.111-05:00Comments on Matt Paust's Crime Time : SEA OF CORTEZ – John Steinbeck and Edward F. RickettsMathew Pausthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7547065615486762917.post-46971775130062397522019-10-10T20:08:14.571-04:002019-10-10T20:08:14.571-04:00Many thanks, Tracy. I thought of you while reading...Many thanks, Tracy. I thought of you while reading this book because I know you live in that area and figured you've probly been to Cannery Row any number of times. I haven't had the pleasure, but a friend on Facebook told me she'd visited the Steinbeck museum there, which I would love to visit. Reading the book I had no idea it would turn into a mystery, which actually it didn't until after I read it and check on Wiki before doing the review. What a story. I really do need now to read a full bio of him, and some more of his fiction. Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7547065615486762917.post-26429976514784327252019-10-10T15:30:05.573-04:002019-10-10T15:30:05.573-04:00All of this is very interesting, Matt. This is a f...All of this is very interesting, Matt. This is a fantastic overview. The friendship with Ed Ricketts, I had never heard of him before. And that his wife went on the trip but was not mentioned at all. It seems strange that Steinbeck would publish it later without Ed Ricketts' name. I have read some fiction by Steinbeck, but that was many years ago and I should read more of it now.TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7547065615486762917.post-13931803959532275042019-10-07T14:06:51.043-04:002019-10-07T14:06:51.043-04:00Here's the backstory on the trip. Fascinating ...Here's the backstory on the trip. Fascinating stuff. Thanks again to Matt Dexter! <a href="https://www.discoverbaja.com/2018/03/03/searching-for-steinbecks-sea-of-cortez/?fbclid=IwAR27MLV0r_ehrFSoaVxFxOZgbUMX3bCjspYt0WFonx2DaSkXBn0nB-xjpRc" rel="nofollow">https://www.discoverbaja.com/2018/03/03/searching-for-steinbecks-sea-of-cortez/?fbclid=IwAR27MLV0r_ehrFSoaVxFxOZgbUMX3bCjspYt0WFonx2DaSkXBn0nB-xjpRc</a> Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7547065615486762917.post-82707233377963607212019-10-07T06:16:12.955-04:002019-10-07T06:16:12.955-04:00This from Matthew Dexter, presumably from one of S...This from Matthew Dexter, presumably from one of Steinbeck's bios: "Aah, the wife. Carol. Just the mention of her name made the crew raise their eyebrows in mock alarm. One of them—Tiny or Sparky or Tex—whistled through his clenched teeth. Captain Tony Berry shot back a stern look. Carol was coming on the trip––they were all surprised to hear it––but there was nothing that could be done. At least we’ll have someone to do the cooking, Sparky said. But he was dubious. Carol hadn’t warmed to any of the crew. Even around Steinbeck, she appeared aloof. Though she had promised to keep the crew well fed with chicken cacciatore and fresh-baked bread, those meals never materialized. Sparky was named galley chef in her place, leaving Carol with no defined role on the Western Flyer.<br /><br />No one could know this yet, of course, but Carol would not be mentioned in The Log from the Sea of Cortez. Her presence would be excised from the travel narrative, her entire silhouette snipped out, the mysterious hole in a post-divorce photograph. Steinbeck would cut her out so cleanly that very few readers would ever notice that something or someone is missing. “It’s okay to lie to others,” Steinbeck told Ricketts on more than one occasion. “Just as long as you don’t lie to yourself.” But it’s hard to do one without the other. The memories make the story. The story reshapes the memories."<br />Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7547065615486762917.post-8302381890865107332019-10-04T14:36:48.071-04:002019-10-04T14:36:48.071-04:00I'm not a water buff, either, Rick, but from t...I'm not a water buff, either, Rick, but from the photos of the Gulf environs it certainly appears to be an idyllic place. A Facebook friend who lives in Cabo says the place is as nice as it looks in the pix. Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7547065615486762917.post-1763862982853778962019-10-04T12:56:19.188-04:002019-10-04T12:56:19.188-04:00This is one I've skipped in the past and will ...This is one I've skipped in the past and will continue to do so. I have fond memories of traveling the peninsula, and of staying in San Felipe, but never spent much time on the water, and that's fine.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.com