University of Houston Doctoral Candidate Finds Whitman Novel

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[Terry L Smith]

Dear Joe,

‘Dangerous Dan McGrew’ always appealed to me.

Living in Oregon with a Douglas Fir tree in the backyard, knowing that the taproot is as far down as the tree is tall, (as above, so below) or a patch of scrub pine trees in the backyard of base housing on Cape Cod, can lead to an acceptance of trees.

But trees can never, at any time of any day, without the aid of Nature, be as dangerous as ‘Dangerous Dan McGrew’.