the great critic, john updike just died so we will use john updike.he editor said to the young man this language you have here is not really working and i will try to work with the to make this planer and take out a few of these 20-dollar were to have. much to my chagrin the kid says john updike uses those words all the time, when he should it said the i am grateful for this opportunity. let me work with you to make this peace publishable. i acknowledge that i am not yet john updike. so, i think a certain amount of humility is required but a certain amount of seriousness. the first psi ever sold was to st. louis american, for $35 i did not go in there and say this piece is worth $300. how dare you. i said thank you. can i have some copies? in the beginning you right where there is an opportunity and if you don't write you will die. test it be that kind of motivation and the other stuff has to come later. but you can be very strategic. you can sit down and look at the things you want to be published and pay attention. that is what i do when i talk abou

here, it wasn't easy but the graduates of harvard rallied around and now we have a magnificent john updike collection, both his books and his manuscripts and i could go on and on. >> is there funding in perpetuity, are there some endowments -- >> it's very complex, but some owners create endowments and the income from those endowments keep it going, so we depend on gifts and we also have regular endowments and we have a magnificent staff in houghton which is cataloging works and taking good care of them, and even teaching. i mean, i teach a course and some of the students are here, they know that these houghton librarians can teach you a lot, so we are trying to make the most of this talent that we have in the library in all respects. >> i have a question about efemora. the bohemians have a piece of 18t18th century efemora. how does a library go about key siding what's not -- what's preservable and sort of the question of updike's manuscripts, writers don't do manuscripts anymore, so the process is gone. do you get an e-mail archive or something like that? most e-mail has disappeared. the

i'm grateful that i'm not yet john updike.o i think it's a certain amount of humility is required an assertion amount of seriousness. the first use i ever sold was louis american. it was $35. and i didn't go in there and say this is worth $300. how dare you. i said, thank you, can i get some copies? in the beginning you write wherever there's an opportunity. he writes because he did all right, will die. it has to be that kind of motivation. and the other stuff has to come later. these can be very strategic area you can sit down and look at the things you want to be publishing, pay attention to them. but i do not talk about the nation and the village voice. i would take them apart and get in here. how can i write like these men and women. it's okay to do that. and kind of isolate them and dissect them and examine them. but in the beginning, just get it out there. and income you don't have to get it published, just to get out there keep producing. [inaudible] >> i have one more question. you said earlier that there are people of