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LIT: Droppin’ Melville

Posted in Lit on June 5, 2007 | No Comments »

Great Quote from Moby Dick:
Say, you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it…Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are [...]

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Sundog, By Jim Harrison

Posted in Lit on November 13, 2006 | No Comments »

One of my favorite quotes from Jim Harrison’s book Sundog:
“Marshall told me scornfully that most people have no idea where electricity comes from. It’s almost equally true with food, I responded. But many educated people find it unpleasant that either comes from anyplace. It is a philosophical inconvenience that rivers be diverted and controlled or [...]

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LIT: On the Road

Posted in Lit on October 31, 2006 | No Comments »

Since I haven’t been fishing in about two weeks, and won’t get on the water until Thursday at the earliest, I’m posting about the book I’m reading. Or rereading. There are certain books I reread every few years (A Conferacy of Dunces, Henderson the Rain King, Killing Mr. Watson, Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson) [...]

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