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"Either you're dedicated or you're not," Daphne Athas advises a writing class. An
aspiring author ponders her future in light of these words.
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Chapel Hill seems to breed the literati and
lcs artistes. Some come here, some go to
school here, others are born here and others
grow up here. Daphne Athas is one of the
tatter she grew up in Chapel Hill and has
stayed, writing and teaching, with occasional
travels to Greece or Russia or Iran.
Daphne Athas is a gentles poken woman,
her clothes are warm, comfortable colors.
She often uses her hands to under-score her
words.
She has no illusions about the teaching
7 need to make a living. I like teaching
it's a job that I know actually fits into
writing well9
profession though she does enjoy it. I need
to make a living. 1 like teaching it's a job
that I know actually fits into writing well."
That is part of the crux of teaching to
Daphne Athas, its meshing with writing.
"It's about writing, it's about literature. It's
something where you are working on forms,
which is what you do when you write." Then,
there is the rest of the crux, the people she
teaches "when you write, it's not in
opposition to, it's dealing with people"
She does not try to teach someone how to
write, rather she helps students grow in the
craft of writing. "Teaching creative writing
begats a lot of problems," Daphne said, her
glasses touching her lips. "It can be done in a
million different ways and every teacher, if
they're any good, is absolutely different from
another teacher, with some overlapping."
How would Daphne encourage an
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aspiring writer? Very simply.
"I think 1 would just tell them to write. 1
would say doing is most of it. Dedication is
what counts but I don't mean dedicated on
the outside. Either you're ded icated or you're
not."
Many writers, especially Southerners, see
themselves as part of a literary tradition, a
genre. Daphne Athas does not She wears no
labels such as Southern woman writer.
"I don't see myself as part of a literary
tradition," Daphne said. "I think there are
certain advantages of feeling of being in one.
1 wouldn't mind being attached to one, but
I've never been attached and never presumed
to be." A different genre for each book is her
self-expressed literary tradition.
This non-attachment echoes from
Daphne's childhood, growing up in Chapel
Hill. She went to high school, "the old high
school that burned."
"In high school, 1 didn't belong to any
recognizable group and I had wished 1 had.
It makes things easier."
Daphne wrote of this Chapel Hill in what
some have said is an autobiographical novel.
Entering Ephesus.
Chapel Hill now is a little different from
the Chapel Hill in Entering Ephesus, but you
can still enter Chapel Hill on Ephesus
Church Road, passing Ephesus Church.
Entering Ephesus is the story of the
Bishop family, PQ, Mrs. Bishop, Urie, Loco
Poco, Irene and their growth in the town, the
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dichotomy. Daphne said, which is still
present in Chapel Hill.
"Carrbcro (Haw in Entering Ephrsus) was
and is looked down on. Kids who didn't have
university connections; there was definitely a
large schism. When I was here, it wasn't so
big and there weren't as many people who
didn't have an idea of real life as there are
now."
Now, though. Daphne is well into another
novel, one she has spent a lot of time on, "but
it's because I haven't had time to work, a
cramfiiled year, last year. But it's around the
corner and is going into the homestretch."
This novel has a much larger scope than
Entering Ephesus. "It has international
overtones, but no international spies,"
Daphne said laughing, "I'm interested in
the psyche of the people, the business of
cause and effect. One of the problems in this
particular work is what the universe is. Do
you conjure your own universe or is it
something over which you have no control."
Daphne is against national provincialism
and this is also part of the novel. "We can't be
national much longer. I like to be local and
international and all of it is to be purely an
individual's psyche."
In her own life. Daphne has lived up to
being local and international. She spent part
of the last year and a half teaching American
literature on a Fulbright grant at Teheran
University and traveling in Russia.
I had quite a few adventures," she said. "1
went swimming at 14 below. I went to
Tolstoi's home in Moscow." Russia, to her,
was very different from America. She
described the country as very silent, "you're
stepping back, about fifty years. There's so
much to be gained by that."
Daphne travelled in a tour group, meeting
a varied lot of people. "There was one man
.who was looking for trouble. That is what he
related to, trouble."
"He was a painting contractor," Daphne
said, leaning back in her chair to begin the
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story. "Kansas City. Missouri, who was a
slob. Looked like Paul Newman but a slob.
He had a wife who was West Virginia mining
up from nothing. Pretty, but a bitch."
She went on to tell the man's exploits in
Russia, describing him in even more precise
terms. "He was down with niggers, damn
people on welfare, very much Middle
America helpsy selfsy Horatio Alger. He was
spoiling for adventure and trouble. The
man got it, arrested in Kiev after a drunken
brawl with a taxi driver over a girl.
Daphne's other travels, Greece, India,
have given her a different perspective on
people and America.
"In Calcutta, she said, "you see people
like swarms, like maggots.
This is a reality of people and their
existence that is not present in America.
"You come to America, and you don't get
that at all You come to America and there
are no people at all. You never see people on
the streets. They're in the house, watching
TV. A silent country that has empty streets.
You think: where are the people, where is the
lifer
Everything pretty much said. Daphne
then leaned over and seeing that the tape
recorder was off, added: "You need some
good quotable stuff. I hope I've given you
some."
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