Box 190

Scope and Contents This is a rewrite of Jmonique.14k, many corrections, edits, inserts, hand-written additions to VOLUME I of BOOK TWO (#41) listed above. Chapters 1-100. Includes 12-page handwritten list of chapters and their contents in the book. Dad's life in Marines, war, Brownie, marriage and divorce, 9 years with CIA, marriage to Kathy, UCCS teaching, divorce, marries Jackie. Johnny's life, childhood abuse, Loomis school, visits to Mamita, marries Ruby, move to Taos. Etc. Dad's seminal poem "Language is a...

Scope and Contents Rewrite of VOLUME II of BOOK TWO, of Jmonique.14k (#42 above). Chapters 100-206 continuation of ms. listed just above. Many edits, inserts, hand-corrections, additions done mostly in January 2016. Book covers my life and Pop's life from around 1969 until his death. Complex portraits of my life, work, relationships, same deal with Dad, his private journals, anguish, move to Smithville, TX, my visits to him while he's dying. Pages 351-763. Total of 412 pages.

Scope and Contents Jmonique.14p. Clean, Xerox. BOOK ONE (Monique and David). 160 chapters. First 100 pages are Monique's childhood, teen years, life at Peacock Point, trips out west to Santa Fe, Arizona, L.A. Work at anthropology lab in Santa Fe. In 1937 Dad and Monique meet, their courtship follows, married life in Berkeley, ends with Monique's death in Florida, August 4, 1942. 499 pages.

Scope and Contents Jmonique.14p. BOOK ONE (Monique and David). 160 chapters. Many hand corrections (of #45 just above) done Jan. 25-Feb.1, 2016. Much of the past tense changed to present tense. (Why? Good question!) 497 pages.

Scope and Contents BOOK ONE (Monique and David). Jmonique.14t. Has a 4-page intro based on Monique foto--"Reder-Mor." Clean, original draft, with no chapters, and mostly in the present tense. I thought that might bring it "more alive." Wrong! Includes Monique's 1931-33 trips to America, Peacock Point, Santa Fe, courtship and marriage to Pop, and ends with her death in 1942, and Dad's struggle with Mamita for custody of me. 315 pages.

Scope and Contents BOOK ONE (Monique and David). Jmonique.14t. Massive corrections and edits, many Post-Its. This is an important "chop job." Present tense back to past tense. Ends with death of Monique. 347 pages.

Scope and Contents BOOK TWO (life after Monique for Dad and Johnny). Jmonique.15u. Clean, original. Starts after Monique death in 1942, ends with Dad's death in 1998. More like a personal "memoir" because I'm now a player all these 57 years. 396 pages.

Scope and Contents BOOK TWO (life after Monique for Dad and Johnny). Jmonique.15w. Clean, Xerox. No chapters. Past tense. Obviously edited down compared to #49 just above. Dad and Johnny after Monique's death in 1942 until Pop's death in 1998. 279 pages.

Scope and Contents BOOK TWO (life after Monique for Dad and Johnny). Jmonique.15w. Contains 36 pages of Prologue about the final weeks of Monique's life. Followed by 279 pages of BOOK TWO, from 1942 until 1998. Working draft. Many Post-Its and corrections. Includes several inserts not paginated with the book. Over and over, with this book, I kept rewriting, rearranging, re-nitpicking the same effing material. Endless repetition. I couldn't find the tone. Couldn't decide what to leave in, what to take out. This...