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iristarr:
Thanks Lynne for your very (always) thoughtful post here.  Glad to see you're still at it here at BetterMost.  I've been gone for a while, just needing to digest and settle down a bit after the initial passion for BBM and its reverberations, but a couple of sweethearts from this group sent me birthday greetings recently, and I dove back into it.  It just doesn't go away, does it?  There truly "ain't no reins on this one," apparently.  Wishing you the best, Iris.

Lynne:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 12, 2006, 10:20:29 pm ---I don't find it grim...I want to know more! In striving is the key to happiness. The path is the happiness, not the destination.

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I will look some more and see if I can come up with anything that substantiates or expands on Walker Percy.  I believe it was something a literature professor of mine mentioned in passing during a lecture.  If you don't know, Walker Percy wrote a short novel entitled The Second Coming.  It's typical of a lot of Southern American literature like Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor, Katherine Porter, etc...with the strong Christian imagery and all that entails.  One thing I remember distinctly, though, is that the central female character was someone who uplilfts; she even builds a pulley system to 'hoist' something she wants to move.  I remember this every time I see Jack hoisting the supplies (?) to keep them off the ground away from the bears.  I'm virtually certain that Proulx (and McMurtry and Ossana) are strongly influenced by a lot of these works.


--- Quote from: iristarr on June 12, 2006, 11:18:27 pm ---Thanks Lynne for your very (always) thoughtful post here.  Glad to see you're still at it here at BetterMost.  I've been gone for a while, just needing to digest and settle down a bit after the initial passion for BBM and its reverberations, but a couple of sweethearts from this group sent me birthday greetings recently, and I dove back into it.  It just doesn't go away, does it?  There truly "ain't no reins on this one," apparently.  Wishing you the best, Iris.

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Iris!  I've been missing you.  Please accept a belated Happy Birthday wish from me!  I sure hope you had a wonderful one.  I thought about you Friday, but I'm behind on just about everything in both virtual and real life lately.  It certainly hasn't gone away for me yet, but I'm running hot and cold on making my changes.  My early forward momentum seems to have susbsided and I let myself get dragged back into the inertia.  Then I go again....It's terrific to see you back here, Iris.

Love,
Lynne

southendmd:
Here's an oldie from Lynne to bump for Throwback Thursday.

Front-Ranger:

--- Quote from: Lynne on June 15, 2006, 12:04:53 am ---... the central female character was someone who uplilfts; she even builds a pulley system to 'hoist' something she wants to move.  I remember this every time I see Jack hoisting the supplies (?) to keep them off the ground away from the bears.  I'm virtually certain that Proulx (and McMurtry and Ossana) are strongly influenced by a lot of these works.

Love,
Lynne

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I love this! Thank you dear friend!  :-*

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