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Obediah
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 Posted - August 15 2008 : 2:17:56 PM
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I just started reading the classic RevWar novel, Arundel, by Kenneth Roberts (1929). Early in this book, the narrator describes the physical beauty of his homeland near the coast of Maine--and for some strange reason I thought of Fitz and WW when I read the following passage:
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These ledges, covered with tangled growths of seaweed, cause the delicious odor peculiar to these parts in summer; for the prevailing winds, blowing across them, bring to the shore a perfume that seems to come from the heart of the sea--an odor I know of in no other place, though there have been Frenchmen pass through here who declare the same heartening smell may be found on the coast of Brittany. This may be true, though I would liefer hear it from an Indian than from a Frenchman if I had to depend upon it.
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Monadnock Guide
Council of Elders
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Posted - August 15 2008 : 7:56:19 PM
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Fitz, WW - the coast of Maine??? ... Obe, I was a Maine lobsterman, fished out of Southport Island, Maine several years. The Maine coast is indeed beautiful, quite a place. You don't know what cold is, until you've fished off the Maine coast in mid-winter. Think getting into your car on a winter morning is cold? Truth is, - it's not even close. ;) ... I haven't been to Arundel in quite a number of years now, - but there still is a couple of wooden boat builders around, last I heard. If you don't go back five generations or more - you're still a "flat-lander" and always will be. One tough place to make a "year 'round" living - and most here won't know what that means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southport,_Maine |
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - August 16 2008 : 01:20:51 AM
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| On our Louisbourg trip we stopped on Bangor twice, on the way up to see Ken Hamilton and Nikki, and on the way back because we couldn't find a motel in St. Stephen. It seemed like a nice place to live. |
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Wilderness Woman
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Posted - August 16 2008 : 10:12:12 PM
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Originally posted by Obediah
This may be true, though I would liefer hear it from an Indian than from a Frenchman if I had to depend upon it.
As you can well imagine, I agree with the narrator's sentiments... completely!
[WW whispers from behind her fan] Psssst..... Obi! Did you notice that Miss-yer Lay-Fran-say totally missed the point of your post?? That's because he has not the nature for reading.
I, however, understand English.... very well!
Good book, btw! |
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Bookworm
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Posted - August 17 2008 : 1:22:29 PM
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| I agree, WW, it's a very good book. And I loved the cover art -- N.C. Wyeth, I think. |
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Obediah
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Posted - August 17 2008 : 11:07:18 PM
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WW, looks like both Fitz and MG missed the point there.  |
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