there IS a Ford in your future, alas

Michael Eisenstadt michaele@ando.pair.com
Wed, 25 Dec 2002 17:14:26 -0600


Jon Ford wrote:

> Bill-- you can see my works listed on Amazon.com.  I've got about 8 books
> out,

I found these

Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Rhetoric and Reader for Writers
$49 -- 

get this. it's in its 4th edition. this is the change-it 
just-a-bit-and-the-student-cant-resell-it-since-its-no-longer
the-current-edition racket

Hostile Ground : Defusing and Restraining Violent 
Behavior and Physical Assaults -- Edward Lewis 
(Author), Jon Ford

oddly Edward Lewis is listed as the author of this book,
Jon Ford's name appears as well, maybe as a large white
"educator" in the 'hood (Almeda Community College)
he's got some good tales to tell

The Natural World -- Marjorie Ford, Jon Ford; Paperback 

>From the Back Cover of this book (copied from the Amazon 
description):

"A truly unique book in its field, Dreams and Inward Journeys,
4th/edition explores the relationships between self-understanding, 
reading and writing. Chapters include reflective essays, poems, 
memory, gender roles, the anti-self, social definitions of self, 
and the visionary process itself. The emphasis on dreams and 
the imagination has been proven to excite and motivate students. 
For those interested in the connection between reading, writing, 
and the human psyche..."

this book has 2 "authors" Marjorie Ford and Jon Ford. The back
cover puff suggests that this is an anthology where the Fords
are authors in the sense that they picked the selections. but
there must be introductions to the chapters, perhaps written
by the "authors", perhaps there are questions to be answered
at the end of the chapters written by the "authors."  

i like the "truly unique" locution in the back cover puff, it 
has that genuine ring of the truly illiterate

this last is apparently also in its 4th edition which racket
is described above

Ford, please pick out 3 or 4 paragraphs from your favorite published 
writing and post it to the list so we can all read it. otherwise 
you are proving once again how truly full of it you are