Title
I See By My Outfit,Used
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I See By My Outfit' is the record of a reallife adventurea gifted young writer's vivid account of what it is like to cross the country on a motor scooter. Peter Beagle and his friend Phil Sigunick made the trip not long ago, taking as their theme song a parody on the old ballad 'Laredo':I see by my outfit what I am a cowboy;If you had a outfit, you could be a cowboy, too.But the streets of Laredo can't have been as chilly as those of the Bronx on the April morning when the friends, both in their early twenties, set out for California. It was cold work, gunning their trusty steeds, two Heinkel scooters, known affectionately as Jenny and Couchette, along the expressway, and Peter and Phil nearly froze to death the first night out, huddled in sleeping bags on the ironhard Pennsylvania earth.Fortunately, it got warmer, as they made it westward, and the fragile but fractious scooters held together, if you overlook one snapped speedometer cable, one slightly disheveled downshift, and pistons that percolated gently all the way. It beat walking, in any case; and there were always secondhand guitars to prospect for in the pawnshops of whatever main street these latterday troubadours found themselves on. Best of all, there was America to be looked at: as awesome as the Rockies, seen from the plain, or the Mojave desert stretching silent and mysterious on either side as they scooted across it in the dead of night; or as smallscale reassuring as the allnight diners and laundromats in the little towns they passed through. And there were Americans to talk to, like the elderly couple in Boulder City with a cabinet full of fabulous surprises. And all along there was the luck of the road, so that by journey's endMenlo Park, Californiain lieu of spurs, they had even acquired the cowboy hats the song called for.The novelist Peter Beagle has recorded with humor and a rising inflection this odyssey, which he and Phil had been planning ever since they were four, when they set out on their tricycles along the Grand Concourse. Readers may find in 'I See By My Outfit' some of the qualities that have given classics such as 'Life on the Mississippi' or John Steinbeck's 'Travels with Charley,' a place among our bestloved American books. Peter Beagle's is very much a writer's adventure, with language as well as with the American landscape, and he brings to it the flair for observation and expression, exuberance, and sense of wonder for which fiction is already distinguished.(summary from dust jacket, Viking Edition, 1965)
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