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THE STORIES: Every story springs from a germ in real life, and the aim is to create a dream for the listener, one that feels real. I can't tell stories about my own life, which is too limited and eccentric, being that of a writer - so I depend a lot on snatches of other lives, a fact here and a fact there, from which, with luck, one can bake a whole loaf. The notion of The Living Flag came from a 1917 photograph of several thousand Army trainees arranged on a football field to form a pretty good image of the Liberty Bell. A helpful librarian dug up similar photographs of crowds forming the American flag, the Statue of Liberty , and (I believe) the face of Warren G. Harding. The story tries to give a participant's view of such a formation. Listen to The Living
Flag (RealAudio 3.0;
How to Listen)
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