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 | Dear Bevis, Late this morning I completed my reading of Spindle and Bow. At the time I was cramped into a recording booth here at the Library for the Blind, but in truth I was in the Great Ulagan Valley with Rachel and Targitus. When I got back to the office I broke out the koumiss to toast you and celebrate your remarkably imagined and splendidly written novel. It is a memorable work. Much as I wanted to race through it at home before I began my weekly readings for the recording, I deliberately deferred doing that. Instead, I never read beyond the weekly recorded portion which usually runs to about 30 pages. I'm delighted to report that throughout the several months of recording sessions the suspense was not only sustained, but apportioning the text that way enhanced the value of each reading in the way that rationing intensifies the anticipation and flavor of food and drink. The plot is a fascinating and ingenious solution to the mysteries frozen in the Siberian tomb. Your obviously prodigious scholarly research as well as your travels produced a book rich with striking accounts of ancient, exotic cultures and distant landscapes. As they developed through Rachel and Targitus, the contacts and tensions between monotheistic Judaism and tribal polytheism were intriguing. The technician who did the recording is an educated, worldly guy with much sophistication and experience in what it takes to make mass entertainment successful. Throughout our recording sessions he repeatedly remarked on the book's potential as a smashing movie. I enthusiastically agree. Spence Toll
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