Spit and a Half Catalog #11, Summer 1996
There's More
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-strip by David Collier, source unknown (comment if you know), from 1995
Oil and the Germs of War (1923)
Oil and the Germs of War, 1923. by Scott Nearing.
-I read the edited version of this in A Scott Nearing Reader: The Good Life in Bad Times, ed. Steve Sherman, 1988, but this is the longer original pamphlet version (as far as I know). I wish I could find either version in any significant copy-and-pasteable form online, but a quick search only showed up the pamphlet and Google Books ocr versions. (This is of course exhibit number google of how the internet does not have everything. It’s a big deal.) I got my copy of the book from the Chicago Public Library (and it’s in rough shape, water-damaged, but holding on.
``Through the years I have talked, written, lectured, and debated with minimal effect,'' Nearing wrote in his 1971 autobiography. ``Those who will listen to my voice or read my writings are fewer in number than they were 20, 30, and especially 40 years ago. There are even times when I seem to be talking and writing entirely to myself and a handful of friends and associates. What does one do in such a situation, with something to say and few ways of getting it across? .... How does one feed, house, and clothe oneself during fifty years of exclusion from the primary channels of communication and with no dependable source of income?''
Nearing answered his own question:
``Homesteading fitted nicely into the predicament which faced me in the 1930s. .... If one is to be poor, it is better to be poor in the country than in the city because one can at least grow one's own food instead of having to buy it from the barrows or pick it out of garbage cans on city streets.''
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Wild Animals I Have Known
I was looking for some good scans of
Wild Animals I Have Known
on the web, but the only one I could find wasn't very good, so I started scanning my copy and will be putting those
. I only have a few up now, but I'll let you know when there's more. (If you know of some good scans online please let me know.) This is a pretty great comic book drawn by LB Cole, and the inks still look great in my copy. There's something lost in the scans, though, because the way the dot patterns look on the screen doesn't match the way they look on the paper, but
look better than others I could find.
When I post more pages, I'll let you know.
If you scroll all the way to the right there's a "NEXT" in the bottom right corner that will take you to the next set of pages. And I could just post the links here:
Also, if the pages are too big on your screen, you can hold down "command" and press "-" (minus sign) (on a Mac) until you're happy, or hold down "CTRL" and press "-" (on a PC (I think?)). Doing the same with the plus sign will make them bigger.