I am pleased the site is fulfilling it's purpose of filling the void. It was a strange experience creating it. Definitely felt I was being guided by the man himself.

Anyway, if you can't wait till next year, I am hoping to have some copies of "Sinai Tapestry" in my paws tomorrow and I was going to have a sort of giveway on this site if it works out. I have occasionally run across copies of the British paperback of Sinai Tapestry (rare though they are), but a friend told me at the weekend he'd found several in secondhand bookshops in Melbourne just in the past week.

Fingers crossed that they are still there. So check out the site again in a few days and you might be lucky.

Regards,

Anne
--Previous Message--
: Hello Anne,
: Well done for helping fill the unpardonable
: void that surrounds Ted Whittemore's life
: and works. I first read Sinai Tapestry in
: the early 80s. My brother was at Auckland
: University at the time and it was part of
: a reading list for some paper or other.
: There's a tradition in my family whereby
: if you can't be bothered reading a book,
: but have to, you give it to another member
: to read and quiz them on it. I was handed
: Sinai Tapestry and told to report back.
: I was captivated... such a moving, stirring
: book. Alas, I left it perched on top of a
: pinball machine in some pub in Auckland
: City one afternoon, without realising that
: what I was losing would prove impossible
: to regain. I have since scoured bookshops
: overseas in vain hope of discovering the
: meanest, beatup, coverless copy of ANY of
: Whittemore's works, without success.
: Then I stumbled across Michael Walsh's email
: address at Johns Hopkins University Press
: and he told me he was just finalising
: cover art for all of the works, and that
: they were due to be released in August
: this year. I was ecstatic.
: And now I discover that they're delayed until
: the start of 2002. Oh well. I've waited
: twenty years, I can wait a little longer I
: guess.
: Anne, wonderful job. Good luck with the
: site... keep putting the word out. I'm
: hoping it's going to be easier to convince
: friends to read these wonderful books if I
: can tell them that they actually exist,
: are available, somewhere on earth...
: Kind regards,
: Laurie McIntosh
: