09-23-2011, 12:03 AM
THE DON JUAN PAPERS
At Amazon I was able to read a portion of the beginning of Richard DeMille's book: The Don Juan Papers. I have to openly admit that I am impressed by Mr DeMille's writing style. According to the introduction Richard DeMille met Carlos Castaneda for the very first time in 1979 at the American Booksellers' Associations convention in Los Angeles. 1979 would make it one year before Mr DeMille would have to write a specially edited version of his first book against Castaneda saying he was wrong about mushrooms not growing in the Sonora desert.
Anyway, here's the thing:
Richard DeMille is introduced to Carlos Castaneda and they share a warm handshake saying
"Five years writing about you and we've never met."
Carlos looks puzzled. "You've been writing about me?"
Castaneda didn't have so much as a clue that DeMille wrote a book calling Castaneda a hoaxer. NOT SO MUCH AS A CLUE!! Obviously, DeMille's first book did nothing whatsoever to ruin Castaneda's fun with life. If that was what DeMille was hoping to do he failed miserably. DeMille told Carlos that he had written a book about him and had send letters to him in care of his agent. Castaneda never got those letters. No one associated with Carlos Castaneda ever told him about DeMille's book debunking his work. NO ONE!!!!! Now that's interesting, don't you think? When Mr DeMille asks Castaneda what he is writing about Carlos says that he is writing about a Mexican Indian literary hoaxer, writing in the the Toltec language, who writes about an Indian tribe that is proven not to exist. Imagine that! You should read the introduction to DeMille's book for yourselves:
Click on "Look Inside"
At Amazon I was able to read a portion of the beginning of Richard DeMille's book: The Don Juan Papers. I have to openly admit that I am impressed by Mr DeMille's writing style. According to the introduction Richard DeMille met Carlos Castaneda for the very first time in 1979 at the American Booksellers' Associations convention in Los Angeles. 1979 would make it one year before Mr DeMille would have to write a specially edited version of his first book against Castaneda saying he was wrong about mushrooms not growing in the Sonora desert.
Anyway, here's the thing:
Richard DeMille is introduced to Carlos Castaneda and they share a warm handshake saying
"Five years writing about you and we've never met."
Carlos looks puzzled. "You've been writing about me?"
Castaneda didn't have so much as a clue that DeMille wrote a book calling Castaneda a hoaxer. NOT SO MUCH AS A CLUE!! Obviously, DeMille's first book did nothing whatsoever to ruin Castaneda's fun with life. If that was what DeMille was hoping to do he failed miserably. DeMille told Carlos that he had written a book about him and had send letters to him in care of his agent. Castaneda never got those letters. No one associated with Carlos Castaneda ever told him about DeMille's book debunking his work. NO ONE!!!!! Now that's interesting, don't you think? When Mr DeMille asks Castaneda what he is writing about Carlos says that he is writing about a Mexican Indian literary hoaxer, writing in the the Toltec language, who writes about an Indian tribe that is proven not to exist. Imagine that! You should read the introduction to DeMille's book for yourselves:
Click on "Look Inside"