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MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 04, 2009, 11:48:16 am ---I don't have The Text in front of me, but surely you recognize "boneless blue" as Annie Proulx's phrasing? In this context I've always taken "boneless" to mean "cloudless," though I can't exactly say where I picked up that notion and it may predate my reading of Annie Proulx.
I know, for example, that a ship moving fast enough to create a white wave at the bow is said to have "a bone in her teeth," so I may be projecting from "bone" = "white wave" to "boneless blue (sky)" = cloudless, clear blue sky.
If I remember correctly, Annie's use occurs in her narration of the last horsepacking trip in May 1983.
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Well, darn. I should have remembered that. Are you going to take away my BBM membership card? ;)
L
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: belbbmfan on March 04, 2009, 04:50:53 pm --- :laugh:
Where DO you find these things?
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Oh, I have my sources....
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Who knows, maybe they'll make their way to the western shop in Brussels.
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Now that would be fun! And one of these days, I'll get there too!
L
MaineWriter:
Still cold. -2 this morning. Brr.
L
CellarDweller:
Morning everyone!
it's supposed to get up to 40 today, that's an improvement after the beginning of the week! By the weekend, almost 60, but rainy.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on March 05, 2009, 08:04:28 am ---Still cold. -2 this morning. Brr.
L
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According to our local NBC affiliate it was 20 F when I left home this morning. The cold felt damp and penetrating right to the bones as I waited for the bus. :(
But at least it's another boneless-blue late-winter morning! :)
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on March 05, 2009, 08:02:53 am ---Well, darn. I should have remembered that. Are you going to take away my BBM membership card? ;)
L
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Of course not! Silly! :-*
Just write, "I will remember Annie Proulx's prose" on the blackboard 300 times. ;D
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