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The Patch

Emphatically, the author`s purpose was not merely to preserve things but to choose passages that might entertain contemporary readers. Starting with 250,000 words, he gradually threw out 75 percent of them, and randomly assembled the remaining fragments into `an album quilt.` Among other things, `The Patch` is a covert memoir. Part 1, `The Sporting Scene,` consists of pieces on fishing, football, golf, and lacrosse – from fly casting for chain pickerel in fall in New Hampshire to walking the linksland of St. Andrews at an Open Championship. Part 2, called `An Album Quilt,` is a montage of fragments of varying length from pieces done across the years that have never appeared in book form – occasional pieces, memorial pieces, reflections, reminiscences, and short items in various magazines including The New Yorker. They range from a visit to the Hershey chocolate factory to encounters with Oscar Hammerstein, Joan Baez, and Mount Denali.

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