tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70150393042246122082024-03-13T08:37:51.566-07:00Garys BooksI like to read. Not as much as I would like. But my book group keeps me honest on this. This blog is my thoughts, but as all writings are, there are many influences including my book group, which I humbly acknowledge and am grateful for.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger440125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-48264982784615241242024-03-03T21:35:00.000-08:002024-03-06T14:57:22.754-08:00Seattle Walk Report: An Illustrated Walking Guide Through 23 Seattle Neighborhoods<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcE38yl7A2B4Z1Nd0lB7Yrmij91gGoHRnShv36xDGbGGhBG3slURU7bC3C2PVJMJMf8pfq9xY9fa4Qp2OYkm02L09pQQByQr3o5lMBiIDEfgTCMhJeVmLI1gfe4X0MZ3YIw_u2TOhA8wh1lAFEvHTU3nL1LwbR057raPhg5kaD-KDAOdHCY2i9G9LNnk/s1500/81nKFZlIdbL._SL1500_.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1101" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcE38yl7A2B4Z1Nd0lB7Yrmij91gGoHRnShv36xDGbGGhBG3slURU7bC3C2PVJMJMf8pfq9xY9fa4Qp2OYkm02L09pQQByQr3o5lMBiIDEfgTCMhJeVmLI1gfe4X0MZ3YIw_u2TOhA8wh1lAFEvHTU3nL1LwbR057raPhg5kaD-KDAOdHCY2i9G9LNnk/s320/81nKFZlIdbL._SL1500_.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><br /><b>Book:<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> </span></b><span id="docs-internal-guid-7242f532-7fff-a2f5-3923-6b8202f2d12c" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Seattle Walk Report: </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-7242f532-7fff-a2f5-3923-6b8202f2d12c" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><p></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7242f532-7fff-a2f5-3923-6b8202f2d12c" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">An Illustrated Walking Guide Through</span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7242f532-7fff-a2f5-3923-6b8202f2d12c" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">23 Seattle Neighborhoods</span></p><div><br />
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/03/seattle-walk-report-illustrated-walking.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/03/seattle-walk-report-illustrated-walking.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/03/seattle-walk-report-illustrated-walking.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/03/seattle-walk-report-illustrated-walking.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/03/seattle-walk-report-illustrated-walking.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/03/seattle-walk-report-illustrated-walking.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/03/seattle-walk-report-illustrated-walking.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c7ada9c6-7fff-e24f-f406-4d9622fcb95f" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Susanna Ryan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Libby from the Los Angeles Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Sasquatch Books</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9781632172617 (ISBN10: 1632172615)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: March 1, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: March 3, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">166 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Seattle, Illustrated, Walking</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 4 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis :</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is a book about walking neighborhoods in Seattle. Note, the
sub-title, this is an illustrated book. Each section has:</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.02in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
list of things found</span></span></li><li style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
map of what was walked</span></span></li><li style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Counts
of something which caught the author’s eye</span></span></li><li style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe
a sign</span></span></li><li style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then drawings of various items-treehouses, buildings, gum walls,
even traffic signals</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are three tenets Ryan has:</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.02in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Be
open to possibility</span></span></li><li style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Be
safe</span></span></li><li style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let
go of your preconceived notions of expectations</span></span></li></ul><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her
suggestions for your walks include:</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.02in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vary
your normal walks. Maybe shift them over aa block</span></span></li><li style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Be
the “official” reporter for your block. Look for things unusual.
Count the countable things</span></span></li><li style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
a random walk.</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
the subtitle notes, this is an illustrated book with explanations. In
the introduction, she notes this is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>a
call to explore and to celebrate the overlooked everyday marvels that
surround us.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
So in that sense, we can use what Ryan does anyplace.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ryan
started sharing her discoveries on Instagram under </span></span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/seattlewalkreport/?hl=en"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Seattle
Walk Report</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
dynamics of her walks would make it that if you followed in her steps
the next month, week or even day, your experience would be different.
That is her purpose-to have you see your neighborhood through the
lens of how things are and how things change. Her purpose is to open
our eyes to that which is around us.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each
chapter is about 8 or 9 pages. There is an introductory drawing with
a brief description of the neighborhood. Also a checklist of stuff
she has found. In Ballard she has: interesting side streets, views of
the water, a mix of old and new houses, and Scandinavian flags. This
gets followed by a map complete with the route she followed-the map
looks followable, but my guess is that you may want to take a more
recent street map. Each neighborhood has a tally of things of
interest, at least to Ryan. In Ballard it is the number of houses for
sale and the number of jaywalkers. Then there are things which catch
her eye: The Ballard Bell, a manhole cover, a series of knocked down
newspaper boxes, some boats, a beaver, and the various locks she saw.
Also so odds and ends-things for free on the street and the parks in
the area. Her drawings show these things, I hesitate to say
accompanying rather than the writings accompanying the drawings. You
get the idea.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
a hint: find your favorite tree and that can extend to almost
anything, such as street light, lock, or front door.</span></span></p>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">See
the <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/03/seattle-walk-report-illustrated-walking.html#Synopsis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Synopsi</a>s for what she says you should do.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
wife and I were thinking about going to Seattle. We have been there
once before and loved walking in this city, actually almost any city
we have visited. So this book seemed like a perfect fit.
Disappointingly, it was not what I was looking for. It was better.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
start with, if you are an out-of-towner looking for a tour guide for
Seattle, this is not it. But despite the title, that is not the
purpose of this book. It is written more for a person who lives in
the area with the need to open their eyes to the hidden charms of
their city. The author’s idea is to observe where you are and
consequently enjoy the city more. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You
will not find much in the ways of the major attractions of Seattle.
What you will find is a random dive through the neighborhoods of
Seattle. She walks each area of Seattle and reports on what is seen.
Some things are expected such as parks, major buildings and museums
but then there are things like counting the sneakers on telephone
lines in a neighborhood, or _.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
Ryan is trying to teach us is to look and appreciate where we are,
that no place is uninteresting, if you see it right, even where you
live. And that is where this book is better. You can do the same
thing in the place where you live. Look for the common stuff and see
the wonder, witness the uncommon which has been there all the time
but which you have gotten used to. And then record it for your own
amusement, or possibly others.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since
this is an illustrated book, the 166 pages go by pretty fast with not
much written. So even if you only have an hour to flip through it,
you will get something out of it.</span></span></p>
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<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
does being an illustrated book affect how you received Ryan’s
message?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
does Ryan want her readers to do?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
you were Ryan and walking your neighborhood, what illustrations would
you make? What would you count? What would catch your eye?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
can you explore and celebrate your neighborhood? Your city?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
has your neighborhood changed in the last month? Year? Decade?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Seattle
Walk Report</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as a guide?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world? What questions did you
ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p> </div><br /><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Introduction</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Welcome
to the Neighborhoods</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ballard</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Capitol
Hill</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Central
District & Leschi</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chinatown-International
District</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Downtown</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fremont</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Green
Lake, Wallingford & Phinney Ridge</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lake
City & Wedgewood</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Madrona,
Madison Park & Montlake</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pioneer
Square</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lower
Queen Anne</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Upper
Queen Anne</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rainier
Beach</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">SoDo
& Georgetown</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">West
Seattle]</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Eastside</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Conclusion</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Search&Find</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walking
Supplies</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://sasquatchbooks.com/books/seattle-walk-report/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book (</span></span><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606823/seattle-walk-report-by-seattle-walk-report/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Penguin
Books</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://seattlewalkreport.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/seattlewalkreport/?hl=en"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Instagram</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Seattle-Walk-Report-Illustrated-Neighborhoods/dp/1632172615"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Susanna-Ryan/author/B07SV5D8P4?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/seattle-walk-report-susanna-ryan/1133016461?ean=9781632172617"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seattle
Times </span></span><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/seattle-walk-report-creator-returns-with-secret-seattle-a-guide-to-seattles-living-history/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seattle
Department of Transportation</span></span><a href="https://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2022/01/21/roadside-chat-susanna-ryan/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
interview</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3479261"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Seattle
Public Library</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-57589046166960744982024-02-27T21:35:00.000-08:002024-03-09T19:06:58.505-08:00Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrK3-XuNT1nlSebAgihIgqTGBysH0BJ-mIk8Moyd4IYUXhXB4icAt8Ig1O5zWFyiNrvwhsEqqSE9l4bCaJwl0LzLZBG6Gxixv0SwVzPVTY7dFY389p2bb_-OzCYyOXgebIiADq65uHcnpg-aviDpKqaReFAMdZfxAvyrggZXOelRxjIJubjYDDHJ6vISc/s450/9780593740491.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="450" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrK3-XuNT1nlSebAgihIgqTGBysH0BJ-mIk8Moyd4IYUXhXB4icAt8Ig1O5zWFyiNrvwhsEqqSE9l4bCaJwl0LzLZBG6Gxixv0SwVzPVTY7dFY389p2bb_-OzCYyOXgebIiADq65uHcnpg-aviDpKqaReFAMdZfxAvyrggZXOelRxjIJubjYDDHJ6vISc/s320/9780593740491.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><b>Book: Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#BookReferences">Book References</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/fire-weather-true-story-from-hotter.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d9a6c8b1-7fff-a8da-704c-df7fdfeccf22" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: John Vaillant</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Libby from the Fresno County Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Knopf</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9781524732851 (ISBN10: 1524732850)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: December 3, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: February 27, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">432 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: History, Science, Fire</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: Low</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3½ out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">History: 4 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
book is divided into three parts: The Fire, how Climate has changed
Fire, and what he calls The Reckoning. The main emphasis is the 2016
Fort McMurray Fire. He talks about the intensity of the fire and how
the firefighters were not ready to face this intensity.</span></span></p>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
then he goes on and talks about how fires are getting more intense
and the driving force behind it: the rise in earth’s temperatures.
This is caused by the rising CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
content in the atmosphere. He blames the petroleum companies for
this.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shandra
Linder-worked for Syncrude</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Melissa
Blake-May of Fort McMurray</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bernie
Schmitte-51 years old, regional fire manager</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Darby
Allen-59 years old, fire chief of Fort McMurray</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ryan
Couts-firefighter at Slave Lake.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
Knoxs-a radio station program manager.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reid
Fiest-journalist from another city</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chris
Vandenbreekel-radio journalist, who had knowledge of wildfire</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paul
Ayearst-resident, worked in the mine</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Troy
Palmer-chief of Hall 1, student of military history</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lucas
Welch-firefighter for Suncor</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wayne
McGrath-resident of Abasand Heights</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mark
Stephenson-Captain, Fort McMurray</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ronnie
Lukan-volunteer firefighter from Slave Lake, heavy equipment operator
by day</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Steve
Bustillos-retired police detective in Redding. </span></span>
</li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Places:</u></span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Athabasca
River.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fort
McMurray</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:</b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
</span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213685507/the-story-of-a-devastating-wildfire-that-reads-like-a-thriller-wins-u-k-book-pri"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>NPR</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
November 17, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book: November 17, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: Talked about it on NPR and with my
volunteering in a fire lookout, it would seem a natural tie in.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it? More background on what happens in a
really big fire.</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Part
One: Origin Stories</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Prologue</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sets
the stage to talk about the </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Fort_McMurray_wildfire"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Fort
McMurray Fire</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">which
started in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>May
2016.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It would be a big fire and the most destructive in Canadian history.
But there was not one death associated with the fire. The chapter
also lays the groundwork to talk about changes in weather and
climate.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
1</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about how expansive Canada is, particularly as you travel north. He
notes trees do not get big because they burn often-it is a feature,
not a flaw. </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchaga_fire"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Chinchaga
Fire</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
of 1950, the largest fire in North America. </i></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
talks about Fort McMurray. A mining city of 90,000 to 140,000 getting
petroleum out of rock. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
couple of fires were burning. The residents were watching them, but
not apprehensive. More of a party.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
2</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
goes through the role which bitumen/bituminous sand played at Fort
McMurray. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bitumen
is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum. Depending on its
exact composition it can be a sticky, black liquid or an apparently
solid mass that behaves as a liquid over very large time scales.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
From </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitumen"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Wikipedia</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
It is asphalt but there were ways to bring out petroleum products
from it. Alberta, particularly Fort McMurray is rich in it. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Even
people gainfully employed in those mines compare them to Mordor</i></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A3o_Salgado"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Sebastião
Salgado</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
</i></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burtynsky"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Edward
Burtynsky</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
or</i></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>
J. M. W. Turner</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-painters
and photographers.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fort
McMurray has extreme weather which causes equipment to malfunction or
ruin. So they need to be continually heated. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
government helps to make this operation profitable. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Alberta
has taken these liabilities into account and, in order for the
bitumen industry to be even remotely profitable, four conditions must
be met: conventional oil must be trading above $50 a barrel; the
natural resources needed to produce it (fresh water, natural gas, and
the boreal forest ecosystem) must be had for next to nothing; the
industry itself must be heavily subsidized; and exploration costs
must be nil. There is a fifth condition, exploited not just by the
bitumen industry but by the entire burning world: no consequences for
emissions</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
3</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Goes
through a history of bitumen. In Alberta, before bitumen, trapping
otters was the big trading item. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>…,
corporations and wildfires follow similar growth patterns</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
[as that of the Hudson Bay Company]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
in that, once they reach a certain size, they are able to dictate
their own terms across a landscape—even if it destroys the very
ecosystem that enabled them to grow so powerful in the first place.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
notes that at some point the State and company merge and you cannot
tell them apart. Even with high wages, debt among the bitumen workers
was high.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Before
the multinational giants and their armies of workers move in, the
visionaries must pave the way.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Here, Vaillant traces how the companies which mine the bitumen came
to be dominant in this area. Talks about a geological survey hitting
a pocket of gas which erupted. It was lit on fire and stayed lite for
21 years until it was capped.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
4</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
1967, the ability to mine bitumen in Fort McMurray big time was made
possible by the completion of a factory by Suncor.. But it would not
be profitable for decades. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
is impressive to those who work there is the scar they are leaving on
the earth. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
lot of things are said to be “visible from space,” but not from
six thousand miles above Earth. At that distance,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wages
were high-workers were scarce. But so was the social issues-fighting,
drugs, alcohol. </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
5</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fires
start small and are dependent on three things: oxygen, fuel and heat.
It also needs a catalyst-something to start it. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
is not the tree or house that burns, but the gases those things emit.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Virtually
everything we have accomplished on our increasingly rapid journey of
differentiation from other apes, and from our own ancestors, can be
traced in direct relation to our ability to focus and concentrate
this fierce prosthetic energy—“heat” seems far too soft a term
for what it has wrought in us and in our world</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
think of fire as something which we cook by or warm ourselves with.
But if you consider each spark which a car engine makes is a fire and
multiply that out by the number of cylinders and cars on earth which
are running, the number of fires just from that is immense.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chemists
call fire a </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>rapid
oxidation event.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Oxygen is very reactive with almost everything. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
thinks of homo sapiens as homo flagrams: burning man.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Part
Two: Fire Weather</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
6</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
actual fire’s name was MWF-009 (McMurray Wildfire 009, the ninth
fire of the season in the region.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
could not tell if Vaillant said too much about the fire. Where did it
start? How did it start? There is a </span></span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-wildfire-cause-investigation-rcmp-1.3635241"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>June
16, 2016 article by the CBC </u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">which
talks about the suspensions that this is a human caused fire. It
talks about people who had been on the Horse River Trail System
between April 29 and May 5. It was first sighted on May 1st.
</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Fort_McMurray_wildfire"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Wikipedia
</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">gives
the coordinates of 56.665278, -111.383333. But these coordinates do
not jive with it being 9.3 miles away from Fort McMurray.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about the early days of the fire. How efforts were made to prevent it
from going in the direction of the city. Extreme fire conditions
were present-high temperatures and low humidity. And then there was
wind.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emergency
was declared on May 2nd. While a press conference was being given,
the fire was called out of control.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reminiscent
of the </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Slave_Lake_wildfire"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Slave
Lake Fire.</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Those who fought this fire realized that those fighting the Fort
McMurray Fire would probably fail to contain it. The problem is that
as you are fighting the front of the fire, behind you embers are
falling, igniting new fires. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about ground fires, ladder fires, and crown fires. Gives definitions
of each. Also differences in fighting rural/forest fires and urban
fires. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
7</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highway
63 is the only way in or out of Fort McMurray. To the people of Fort
McMurray, May 3rd looked like any other day. But it was going to be
hot and dry. That afternoon, wind would be added into the mix: once
an inversion layer raised. To make matters worse, all of the fire
indices were off the charts.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you talk about something </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>fearsome
without turning people fearful? </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
</p>
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<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ACP.....7..645R/abstract"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Chisholm Firestorm</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">in
2001. The precursor to this fire. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
fire chief was asked, what is the worst scenario? The answer was a
fire which they could not stop. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
8</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
was not the first major fire which threatened Fort McMurray. It was
only a question of when it would actually happen. Old timers knew
this, but the town had so many new people that they did not recognize
the danger. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>most
newcomers are focused less on the landscape than on what they can
take from it.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are programs which predict fire outcomes. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
of these programs is called </i></span></span><a href="https://firegrowthmodel.ca/pages/prometheus_overview_e.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Prometheus</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
and it was being applied to this fire. </i></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Slave Lake rig came into town about 1pm and made for Fire Hall 5. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Technically
speaking, crossover occurs when the ambient temperature in degrees
Celsius exceeds the relative humidity as a percentage.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Once crossover is achieved, the fire can take off. The fire will go
into the crown of trees, making a fire unstoppable.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
fire has jumped the river.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
residences now had a discrepancy between </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>idea
and appearance, between time and eternity, between the human and
divine.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Exponential growth means that you are always reacting to the past,
not understanding the future. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
9</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
explores how wildfires are different from floods and hurricanes. He
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>fire
is the most versatile and whimsical of disasters.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In that, they do not follow a predictable course, for the most part. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
chiefs on the radio were out of touch with what was happening in the
field. See the previous chapter on exponential growth. On the radio,
Forest was saying that there was nothing which they could do to
contain the fire. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Under
these circumstances, the only appropriate action is to withdraw and
wait for a change in the fire’s behavior, which usually means a
change in the weather, or nightfall.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Slave Lake crew arrived, showed their equipment and saw the fire
coming. They knew there was not any time to do more. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
each neighborhood, there was only one way in and out-very much like
Paradise where there was limited egress.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
10</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By
early to mid-afternoon, neighborhoods were being evacuated. Not
everybody was getting the notice. But it came as a surprise when the
fire approached people close to their homes. They had issues trying
to comprehend it. Talking about Paul Ayearst, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Even
then, his brain, and its fierce loyalty to the status quo, resisted.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This causes Ayearst to ponder and do inconsequential things like lock
his front door and debate which vehicle to take, rather than leaving
immediately. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
has been observed that people in shock or overwhelmed by traumatic
events will focus obsessively on small details.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He finally decided to take his truck. Its thermometer hit 151
degrees. He and his family got stuck in traffic. He was not alone.
He was the last one out of the neighborhood.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
11</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Evacuation
orders were being broadcast for more and more communities. All
equipment and all firefighters in the area were in use. Described
how the city was being attacked by flames and how the evacuation was
stuck in gridlock. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
fire departments respond to incidents has been standardized by the
Brunachini brothers through the </span></span><a href="https://aoysfiretraining.com/blue-card-international/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Blue
Card Command</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But this fire was outside of the response of this type of incident
command.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Palmer
as a chief was trying to get equipment out to the firefighters. But
this was hard to do as everything which he would normally see was
burning. It was disorienting.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Structural
fires are usually dealt with in a matter of hours; forest fires,
despite a stated goal of “out by ten,” may require days or weeks
to bring under control.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In other words, when fighting structural fires, it is a discrete
environment-a small set of buildings. But with wildfires it is wide
open about what gets burnt. Also the type of person is different.
Wildfire fighters are built for speed and endurance. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
is one reason you won’t see many powerlifters like Mark Stephens on
a Forestry crew, but you will often see more women.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today
the distinction is getting more and more blurred between structural
and wilderness. Houses are being built in the Wilderness-Urban
Interface (WUI). So forest fires hit structures and urban fires can
touch off forest fires.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rule
of thumb: water gallons per minute should match or excess the BTU’s
of a fire. In this case, the fire was winning.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Firefighters
fly towards danger. The mentality is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Service
before self.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
There was a sense of inexperience by the firefighters. They thought
they could stop this fire. The Slave Lake fire fighters knew better
that they were going to lose a whole boatload of structures. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
was time only to get the residents out before they were overrun.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
12</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks about an experiment which </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87hAnxuh1g8"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Underwriters
Laboratories did in 2005</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
with modern furniture vs older furniture. Since modern furniture is
made with plastics and other petroleum based products, the living
room was engulfed in flames in less than five minutes which it took
over 30 minutes for older furniture to have this happen. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
notes that the whole city was of similar modern
construction-petroleum based. Whole neighborhoods went up in flames
similar to the experiment above. Neighborhoods were abandoned. Houses
detonated like a bomb-the gas tanks and vehicles parked in them.
Anything with a gas-even bags of Doritos-exploded. Resources were put
into retreat and then stationed to protect critical resources.
Houses were disappearing within five minutes time. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Firefighters
are not expected to run away from danger. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Courage
and self-sacrifice are not the exceptions, but the expectations.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
At times there was a sense of being caught behind enemy lines.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fires
are drawn by oxygen and energy.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Story
of Lucas Welch. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">BLEVE-boiling
liquid expanding vapor explosion</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
combat the fire, the groups came to a decision that they would set up
20 minutes in front of the fire to combat it. Houses were crowded
together, maybe six feet apart. So if one house caught on fire, the
next one would as well.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
13</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Story
of Wayne McGrath. He had a lot of equipment and his house stood right
in the way of the oncoming fire in Abasand Heights. He is able to
save his house from the first onslaught, but when the fire rushed
past and turned, he was not able to. See his </span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10154207592367174"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Facebook
vide</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">o.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">House
water lines would break and water would flow. The fire hydrants were
dry. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because
of the chaos, there was a loss of top-down command. But not
discipline. Each crew did would do what they were trained to do to
the best of their ability-try to put out fires.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
14</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describes
what happens when you get a fire which heats up like this one did. It
creates its own weather. Burning wood gives off moisture which rises
high in the sky, creating clouds and its own winds. Even lightning.
The resulting clouds are called pyrocumulous and are particularly
dangerous as they will eventually collapse under their own weight,
spreading the fire as if it was a windstorm going in all directions.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
talks about something called the</span></span><a href="https://fs.blog/lucretius-problem/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
Lucretius Problem</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Essentially, it is that we are limited in understanding situations
based upon our own experience. So when something large happens
outside of that experience, we tend to make it fit into our
experience or in Vaillant’s words, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lucretius
Problem is rooted in the difficulty humans have imagining and
assimilating things outside their own personal experience.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This was a problem for all involved with this fire as it was larger
and more intense than anybody had previously experienced. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
data was there, but the interpretation wasn’t.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the weak points of the evacuation was the highway-it just could
not handle all of the cars spilling onto it at once from all of the
neighborhoods. Also there was no place for all of the evacuating
citizens to go once they left town. Even fire stations were being
given up to the fire.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
15</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Evening
brought a news conference where there was almost no good news. Only
good news was that so far there were no known fatalities. The next
day was sure to be just as bad or worse.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ayearst
went back to his house with his son and found that his house was no
longer there.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
16</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two
pieces of good news: 88,000 people had evacuated without a fatality
and when they got satellite information, they realized that the major
part of the city was still intact.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bad
news is that May 4th and 5th would be just as bad as May 3rd. The
highs would still be high and the lows were 20 degrees higher than
normal. Once the inversion layer lifts, the smoke escapes, replaced
by fresh oxygen and the fire is at it again. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describes
firefighting on those days. Also how hard it was to make an air drop
of retardant. As they were running out of food and water, they raided
supermarkets-leaving IOU’s. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
17</u></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://doctorfire.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Doctorfire.com</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-site
of an expert fire researcher. When Vaillant asked about the Fort
McMurray fire, the researcher replied back with the </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Hamburg
bombing</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
during World War II. In the end, Vaillant figured out the connection
was that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>all
that matters to the fire is fuel, weather, and topography.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But beyond that was the connection of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>incendiaries.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In Hamburg, the incendiaries were the bombs. But in Fort McMurray
they were already in place: all of the gas, propane, fuel and other
chemicals which were stored in people’s garages and houses. Also
the neighborhoods were surrounded by highly flammable trees.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
role does the petroleum industry play in promoting and approving
building materials that are supposed to shelter families from harm? </i></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
firefighters were learning and adapting. Rather than looking at a
house as something special, they were thinking in terms that it is
another flammable object just like a tree. This came to bear on half
a million dollar houses in the Prospect Creek North subdivision.
Houses there went from something to nothing in three minutes. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
those houses were being designed and built and sold, no one
considered the possibility that they could burn like a refinery fire,
or that the same apparatus used against such fires would be brought
to bear on Prospect Drive.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ronnie
Lukan </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
is a man of action temperamentally.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He gets a big excavator and starts to knock down houses, pushing
stuff into basements. They would knock down whole streets worth to
create an urban firebreak. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
May 5th, Allen gave the fire a name, The Beast. It seemed like the
fire was living, that it had a </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>voracious
intention.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In another neighborhood, the firefighters were wetting down the
forest before the neighborhood when instantaneously a hundred yards
of forest went up in flames.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Having
the high ground is a disadvantage-heat rises and so do the flames. </span></span>
</p> <br /><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Part
Three: Reckoning</b></u></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
starts talking more like Naomi Oreskes here. He will go through the
history of climate change and why this is of concern. I am suspicious
that Vailolant used the Fort McMurray fire more as a pretext to talk
about how climate change is affecting our world, rather than the fire
being the driving force behind writing the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
18</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Priestley"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Joseph
Priestly</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’s
experiments of atmosphere in a closed environment.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
today’s environment, each of us command more energy and
communications than anybody else in history before let's say 1930 or
even later. It would take hundreds of slaves to pull our trailers and
pickups. But in a closed environment, the occupants of the pickup
truck would be dead in an hour while out in the open air, it
magically goes away.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because
we are myopic, we tend to see only what is close to us. If what we
should see is clear, we do not see it at all. </span></span>
</p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ignaz
Semmelweis</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
made hand washing standard practice. He did this by observing and
wondering. It was Louis Pasteur who gave the theory behind the
practice.</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://paleo-energetique.org/en/paleoinventions/horace-benedict-de-saussures-heliothermometer/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Horace
Bénédict de Saussere</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
made a portable greenhouse and showed that the sun’s ability to
heat remains constant despite the temperatures or elevations.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
19</u></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Eunice
Newton Foote</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-did
a variation on </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Saussure’s
chambered box idea.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She filled one chamber with air and the other with CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
This showed the CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
heated up about twice as much as the normal atmosphere. This was done
in 1856. This is recognized as the first greenhouse gas experiment. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Several
others did experiments and figured out components of this. But it was
</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Stewart_Callendar"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Guy
Callendar </u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">figured
out how industry was impacting temperatures on earth. He tracked the
rising temperatures of various stations. Why? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>His
inquiry arose from an old-fashioned impulse: curiosity.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He was able to correlate the rise with the amount of industrial
output. </span></span>
</p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Plass"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Gilbert
Plass</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
did experiments which tended to confirm Callendar’s projections. In
the late 1950’s Congressional hearings about polar conditions
brought up how the earth was warming and the issues surrounding it. </span></span>
</p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Revelle"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Roger
Revelle</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
talked about and testified before Congress in the 1950’s about the
warming of the oceans and atmosphere and the effects that would have
on the livability of current places on earth.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
20</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those
who are less well to do are not going to be able to cope with the
changes which are coming about. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>colonizers
are uniformly destructive to the health and well-being of the people
and places they deem themselves entitled to occupy and exploit. </i></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
1958, AT&T put together an animated short called </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ph_7C1Jq4"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>The
Unchained Goddess</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
which portrayed the effects of a changing climate. Out of this 58
minute movie, climate issues appear in the last 3-4 minutes.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Teller
also talked about what was going on with the climate.</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_David_Keeling"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Charles
Keeling</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
measured the amount of CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2
</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
in the atmosphere and created a baseline of 310ppm. (January 2024
reading from Mauna Loa where Keeling did his work was 422ppm)</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the 1960’s several reports were issued raising the alarm about the
danger ahead. Even petroleum companies and energy groups created
these reports.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
this gets us back to the </span></span><a href="https://fs.blog/lucretius-problem/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lucretius
Problem</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
where we are blind to problems which we have not faced before. There
is a 1982 Exxon chart on the effect of manmade CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
versus natural temperature changes (see an Exxon internal memo from
1982 on page 35 of a </span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjD5trx-N6EAxV7KEQIHZ77DFQQFnoECBUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Finsideclimatenews.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F09%2F1982-Exxon-Primer-on-CO2-Greenhouse-Effect.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1ANKipmQoftNQj-J8xf5t8&opi=89978449"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>pdf</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">)
By the late 1980’s this was becoming front page news. </span></span>
</p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Climate_Coalition"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Global
Climate Coalition</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-this
is an industry group which is trying cast doubt on what is being
shown. They worked on discrediting scientists who had shown how CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2
</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
was affecting the atmosphere. What they were saying fits better into
the capitalist way of thinking: earn more, spend more, burn more.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
one thing which the climate scientists got wrong was the speed at
which CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2
</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
is affecting temperatures.</span></span><br />
<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
keeps on saying that scientists are humble and cautious. I think this
is not a complete picture, especially the humble part. Vaillant tries
to paint a picture that scientists go wherever the data leads them.
But they do come into the argument with their own prejudices and
preconceived notions. Also while basic science is pretty set, various
theories are modified. Take evolution. Would Darwin recognize what is
known as evolution today?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
21</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
Australia the first pyro-tornado was seen. A new fire category of
fire warnings was instituted above Extreme: Catastrophic. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
directive for “Catastrophic” fire could not be more stark: “For
your survival, leaving early is the only option.” </i></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reviews
the 2018 Carr Fire near Redding. There was another fire tornado here.
The Australian fire tornado was not unique. Recaps the destruction
seen in this fire. Firebreaks no longer worked. Talks about
Bustillos making it out alive, surviving a flashover. If he had left
a few minutes earlier, he would have died like Jeremy Stoke.
Bustillos had been inside the fire tornado, an EF-3. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the lessons learned is that there is not a way for firefighters to
fight fires which are superheated like these. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Firefighters
are never going to not engage,” Deputy Chief Jonathan Cox told me,
“but now firefighters are having to retreat sooner.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In situations like this, the emphasis changes from firefighting to
evacuations and saving lives.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
22</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2017
was not a better fire year than 2016. There is a progression of bad
fire years. In Australia one even created its own ozone hole. There
is evidence that multiple large fires can affect the climate
worldwide. </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Our
unprecedented success (and emissions) are due first to our mastery of
fire, and second to our exploitation of fossil fuels in all their
varied forms.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
have to go back 300,000,000 years to find this much CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2
</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
being released into the atmosphere. Things start off well with life
flourishing during that period and then life being choked out-the
</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Permian-Triassic
Extinction Event</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
According to Wikipedia, we do not know the exact cause of this
event, but there was a great deal of volcanic activity creating dense
SO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
</span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
sounds like Vaillant may not always be straightforward with his
interpretation of things. Such as the above with the Permian-Triassic
Extinction Event. Did it take both SO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
to do the extinction? Was it above the 420ppm density? Wikipedia
notes that it may have been over 10,000ppm. Later he does say we have
a long way to go before we get to the Permian-Triassic Extinction
Event levels. Also he goes on to say there have been five great
extinction events. Then he says that scientists say we are in the
midst of a sixth one. But is it CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.driven
as he alludes to?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
quotes Henry David Thoreou. And then says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
time, it is not fire we have to master, but ourselves.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
differentiates between drought which is a normal cycle with
aridification where we are just getting dry with no cycle. This will
lead to desertification.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>With
every degree of warming, there is a 12 percent increase in lightning.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wow!
Which causes more fires</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
23</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back
to the fire. The big mining companies never shut down. But now they
were being faced with something bigger than their operations. So they
started to shut down. Workers were evacuated. This was about a week
into the fire. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lucretius
Problem</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
of I have not seen this before, so it is something new kept cropping
up.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two
weeks into the fire, residents were still not allowed back and parts
of the city burned, just not nearly like the first couple of days.
Insurance adjusters started coming into the city and found putrid
food and devastation.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More
on McGrath.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
early June residents were let in. Even seeing neighborhoods on TV did
not prepare them for the devastation. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
aftermath of a major wildfire has its own palette. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Fires tend to leave everything gray from ash and soot. Everything was
ruined.</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.samaritanspurse.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Samaritan’s
Purse</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
came in and helped to try to find anything which would be of value or
use or memory. McGrath said </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Nobody
seems to understand how much you lose. </i></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McGrath
ended up committing suicide.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nearly
a quarter of the Fort McMurray population did not return. People
waited up to two years for their insurance money, but in the
meantime, those with mortgages still had to pay off the loans,
businesses still had to pay landlords. Housing prices were dropping.
Because of the severe heat, nothing, even concrete, had to be removed
and rebuilt. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
24</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
sounds like even in 2023 when the book was written, neither Fort
McMurray nor the local economy has recovered. One thing, the
companies are taking the opportunity to make their operations more
automated. Such as autonomous haulers-self-driving.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alberta
is trying to keep its economy going by an assortment of tactics
centered on keeping the mining of bitumen going. There is a sense
that climate change is not real.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
investors are de-investing in petroleum.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Insurance
companies are recognizing the impact of a changing climate on the
risks they are taking.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
the energy companies do not have a good way to leave what they are
doing. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Once
astride a tiger like this, it appears suicidal to get off—even if
staying on is sure to destroy you in the end.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Or as Vaillant asks a few paragraphs later, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Once
a market has taken off, how do you “land” it without crashing?
Or, in the case of petroleum, how do you transition.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
25</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
2021, a Dutch court ruled that Shell had to reduce its CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
emissions. Then a day later an Australian court ruled that the
government had a duty to protect its citizens in the matter of the
environment. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Predatory
delay, as Steffen defines it, is “the deliberate slowing of change
to prolong a profitable but unsustainable status quo whose costs will
be paid by others.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is what the petroleum industry had done for 40 years, knowing
that they were causing damage to the earth.</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://350.org/?r=US&c=NA"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>350.org</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-a
group to stop the use of fossil fuels.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pensions
and investors are removing petroleum from their investments. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Home
Depot was worth more than ExxonMobil, and NextEra, a wind and solar
company most people have never heard of, had a greater market
capitalization.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
26</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Four
and half months after the fire started, it was still burning-it would
burn into the next summer before being declared out. It burnt 2,300
square miles into a neighboring province. But no direct deaths. But
there were many cases similar to PTSD. “</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>After
the fire,” he said, “I kept being asked how the community was,
and my answer was always the same: ‘Imagine a city—thousands of
people—all living in everyday harmony, each and every one with some
aspect of PTSD.’ “</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
Knox, the program director for a radio station said </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ours
has long been a blended world; there are forests in cities everywhere
from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro, and there are cathedrals in forests.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
One thing which this fire and Redding and those in Australia taught
us was that even cities are not a refuge from wildfire. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Sanctuaries</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
[such as museums, churchs] </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
almost by definition, are not supposed to burn.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Epilogue</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
talks about how after the Redding fire, even in places which looked
scorched, new life was emerging. I have seen this around the places I
have been, such as after the Rough Fire. It was noted that places
where the map had marked springs, water now flowed. Before there was
so much vegetation, it was sucking up all the water. Still there are
Sequoias which has been torched which are dead. They will not be
replaced for another thousand years, if ever. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Earth’s
capacity for revirescence is without parallel in the known universe.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Very questionable statement. What of the universe do we know about
besides our own? Do we even know if life exists on other planets?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
ends the book with viriditas. He says that it means greeness. But I
think how Hildegard used it, it means more of vitality or growth. But
in a lot of senses, what Vaillant means is that there is always the
hope which humans have that the future will be better.</span></span></p>
<br />
<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fire
Weather</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
is written with two emphasizes. First, it talks about the 2016 Fort
McMurray fire. The second part is to explain the underlying causes of
why such a fire is possible in our current age.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
is my opinion that the author was writing the story about the Fort
McMurray fire so that he could write about how climate has changed
the nature of forest fires. He has this book divided into three
parts: The Fire, how Climate has changed Fire, and what he calls The
Reckoning. His thesis is that we will continue to have fires such as
Fort McMurray as long as we have a planet where the general
temperature is rising.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
does a fairly good job of talking about the effect of the fire on
Fort McMurray. What was most interesting was how he describes the
refusal to face how big and how terrifying this fire was going to be.
He introduced me to something called the Lucretius Problem.
Basically, if we have not seen an issue, we try to make it look like
something else and ignore it outside of the boundaries of our
experience.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
if you want to read about wildfires, you can do better with a book
like Timothy Egan’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Big Burn</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
or </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Under
a Flaming Sky</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Daniel James Brown.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
said before, I think Vaillant writes the story of this fire so he can
pull together how we are all in danger of our changing environment.
He walks us through the science of climate change where the first
experiments were done in the early 1800’s to the more current day
research. He shows how as the CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
is building up in our atmosphere, it is following the pattern set out
by Guy Callendar. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then there is the refusal to accept what is happening to us, much
like the professionals of Fort McMurray did not recognize how the
fire would overcome them. Vaillant seems to combine up both the
Lucretius Problem with the profit motive. Here he is following in the
footsteps of Naomi Oreskes in her book </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Merchants
of Doubt.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
There is a vested interest of those who make a profit from petroleum
to spread doubt about the findings of scientists. This seems to be
the main point which Vaillant stresses.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
thing Vaillant does not do is talk about how we as American consumers
are a part of the issue. He talks about the big petroleum companies
which produce our products. But not about the consumption of those
products. This seems like it is a weakness in the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Should
you read the book? If you want another book about wildfire, you can
do better. If you want to see how our changing climate affects
wildfire, this book ties it together.</span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
did you learn about wildfire? How to fight wildfires vs urban fires?
What happens when the two merge?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a growing Wildlife-Urban Interface (WUI) happening in North
America. Why do people want to live in the WUI? What impact does that
have in general? What problems does a fire have fighting it in the
WUI?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
you are looking at a neighborhood, what do you look for? Is “how do
you get out” in an emergency one of them?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
does Vaillant mean when he says there was a discrepancy between </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>idea
and appearance, between time and eternity, between the human and
divine?</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>fire
is the most versatile and whimsical of disasters.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Do you agree? </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have
you been in a widespread disaster? How did you react? Was there an
evacuation order? Did you follow the order?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
a mandatory evacuation order is issued, some people stay to save what
they can of theirs. Why do they do that? What is the effect on the
firefighting operations?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Valiant
uses the term homo flagrams (burning man). Do you think this is an
appropriate term for humans in our current age?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Underwriters
Labs did an experiment with modern furniture about how long it took
for a room to go up in flames. What were the results? Why did the
modern go up faster than the older furniture? What should you be
looking for in furniture? Vaillant asks, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
role does the petroleum industry play in promoting and approving
building materials that are supposed to shelter families from harm? </i></span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
fire chief was in an interview, on the air and he was faced with a
delicate balance. How do you talk about things which are </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>fearsome
without turning people fearful?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How would you do it? It was told to some of the leaders that they
faced a lose-lose proposition. If they alerted people too early, they
would be accused of fear-mongering, particularly if the things they
feared did not occur. But if they did not and the bad thing happened,
then there was a failure to raise the alarm. How should leaders talk
about concerns they have in a way which will convey their concerns?
How should we as citizens react when the worst does not happen?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
is the Lucretius Problem? How is this an issue when faced with
something like a disaster? How can one avoid giving false solutions
when faced with a problem outside of their experience? Accountability
is a major theme in our society these days. How can we make our
leaders more responsive to big problems without reducing
accountability?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
didn’t people die or were even injured from the fire or during the
evacuation? What lessons can we learn from this?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vaillant
describes the aftermath of the damage to people’s lives. What
support systems should be in place to aid after these major
incidents? How can people be helped to cope with the feeling of loss?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the progression of experiments which Vaillants uses to demonstrate
that CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
build up is a threat to how life is on earth? Are they convincing? Is
there a different view or research which shows contrary evidence?
Does Vaillant talk about this evidence? How does this build up of CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
lead to more intense fires? Are you convinced? If so, why? If not,
what would it take to convince you? </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks about the difference between drought and aridification. What is
the difference? Why does this difference matter? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was the petroleum industry’s response to being faced with the
evidence that the amount of CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
in the atmosphere was causing issues? Why did they respond in this
way?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
can you do to stop the increase in CO</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
creation?</span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fire
Weather</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as a book about wildfire? Climate change?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
central ideas does the author present?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
they personal, sociological, global, political, economic, spiritual,
medical, or scientific</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>evidence</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
does the author use to support the book's ideas?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is
the evidence convincing...definitive or...speculative?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author depend on personal opinion, observation, and assessment?
Or is the evidence factual—based on science, statistics, historical
documents, or quotations from (credible) experts?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
implications for you, our nation or the world do these ideas have?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
these idea’s controversial? </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
whom and why?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
there solutions which the author presents?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
they seem workable? Practicable?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
would you implement them?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is the culture described in this book different than where we live?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
economic or political situations are described?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author examine economics and politics, family traditions, the
arts, religious beliefs, language or food?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p> <br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Biome:
a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a
major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">scow
tracking: any floating plant which transports dredge material to be
a scow</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Neologism:
a newly coined word or expression.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spalling:
break (</span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=fc7c61e83823ecc2&sxsrf=ACQVn0-t7JBsQtGvVDFaRUH0Sn32vubgtw:1709085747922&q=ore&si=AKbGX_rqGfcQfF_OIXzpudsGKEejNQ2_QS-XnU2w32KIQBkByK6YD1D1Rf7ylA_RQf5nqFvpavfNLURnwo_CeavgkB9nIYiQ7A%3D%3D&expnd=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>ore</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
rock, stone, or concrete) into smaller pieces, especially in
preparation for sorting.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miasma:
a highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gyre:
whirl or gyrate.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Metonym:
a word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else
with which it is closely associated</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anthropogenic:
(chiefly of pollution or environmental change) originating in human
activity</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">igneous
storm: forms through intense, fiery heat — usually in a volcano</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Desiccated:
to dry up</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">cri
de coeur: a passionate appeal, complaint, or protest.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Revirescence:
growing fresh or young again</span></span></li></ul>
<div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>North
American Seasonal Fire Assessment and Outlook</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Paradise
Lost</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by John Milton</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Nassim Taleb</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/LucretiusDeRerumNaturahome.php"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>De
Rarum Natura (On the Nature of Things</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">)
by Lucretius</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Antifragile</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Nassim Taleb</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Beowulf
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">translated
by Seamus Heaney</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Fellowship of the Ring</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by JRR Tolkien</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Observations
on Different Kinds of Air</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Analytical
Theory of Heat</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Heat:
A Mode of Motion</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Worlds
in the Making: The Evolution of the Universe </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Svante Arrhenius</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Silent
Spring</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Rachel Carson</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Botany of Desire</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Michael Pollan</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Ice at the End of the World</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Jon Gertner</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Steppenwolf</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Hermann Hesse</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: On a hot afternoon in May 2016, five miles outside the young
petro-city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, a small wildfire flickered and
ventilated, rapidly expanding its territory through a mixed forest
that hadn’t seen fire in decades.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: Homo viriditas can guide us forward—and, possibly, back</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Men
have become the tools of their tools. Henry David Thoreau, Walden</span></span></li></ul>
: </div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cover</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Other
Titles</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Title
Page</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copyright</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dedication</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Contents</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Map
of Northwest North America</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Map
of Fort McMurray</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
One: Origin Stories</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prologue</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
1</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
2</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
3</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
4</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
5</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
Two: Fire Weather</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
6</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
7</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
8</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
9</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
10</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
11</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
12</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
13</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
14</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
15</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
16</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
17</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
Three: Reckoning</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
18</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
19</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
20</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
21</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
22</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
23</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
24</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
25</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
26</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Epilogue</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Color
Illustrations</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Acknowledgments</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Notes</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bibliography</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Index</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Image
Credits</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Note About the Author</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
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for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/58679/john-vaillant/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Website</u></span></span></span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/JohnVaillant?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>X/Twitter</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vaillant"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Weather-Story-Hotter-World/dp/1524732850"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/John-Vaillant/author/B001IR3PU6?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fire-weather-john-vaillant/1142508330"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61966364-fire-weather?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=SgUeCaFNFS&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/50758.John_Vaillant"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">New
York Times </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/books/review/fire-weather-john-vaillant.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Guardian’s </span></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/06/fire-weather-a-true-story-from-a-hotter-world-by-john-vaillant-review-apocalypse-in-alberta"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NPR
</span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213685507/the-story-of-a-devastating-wildfire-that-reads-like-a-thriller-wins-u-k-book-pri"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://wildfiretoday.com/2023/12/09/fire-weather-reviews-two-perspectives-similar-conclusions/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Wildfire
Today</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
- </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>FIRE
WEATHER Reviews: Two perspectives, similar conclusions</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kirkus
</span></span><a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-vaillant/fire-weather/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq181gYyvNk"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>YouTube</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=24183&recCount=100&recPointer=0&bibId=22792775&searchType=7&resultPointer=0"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Library
of Congress</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/books/fire-weather-a-true-story-from-a-hotter-world/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>National
Book Foundation</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Finalist</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/books-and-authors/fire-weather-by-john-vaillant"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Baille
Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-75879183877862482622024-02-22T15:49:00.000-08:002024-02-22T15:49:45.710-08:00The Alchemist<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLvQc00d0SPdOkfIjC33us0bRUH15mSAQMYDG3XCPYodHndTK7_sj2qMmJsHmTFcwtt8IoTXxWX3R6RjXoke7y0wMnE9hE_7QSPAjqxv0hNzMzUECPZHCgc1RiNV46pLX_D6rmtrL2qd6Q3YHaY6qSdnIBpWoskzlTVyV4o9HheDElz_nM2d3XHD7AGOM/s2400/18144590.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1585" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLvQc00d0SPdOkfIjC33us0bRUH15mSAQMYDG3XCPYodHndTK7_sj2qMmJsHmTFcwtt8IoTXxWX3R6RjXoke7y0wMnE9hE_7QSPAjqxv0hNzMzUECPZHCgc1RiNV46pLX_D6rmtrL2qd6Q3YHaY6qSdnIBpWoskzlTVyV4o9HheDElz_nM2d3XHD7AGOM/s320/18144590.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><br /><b>Book: </b><span id="docs-internal-guid-a5164604-7fff-31db-ada3-075664f03513" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Alchemist</span><p></p><div>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-alchemist.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-alchemist.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-alchemist.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-alchemist.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-alchemist.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-alchemist.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-alchemist.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-alchemist.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-alchemist.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-alchemist.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-924fc60b-7fff-c12e-b0a5-14b0a89354c5" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Paulo Coelho</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: ePub on Libby from the Fresno County Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: HarperOne</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9780062315007 (ISBN10: 0062315005)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: January 31, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: February 11, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">188 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Fiction, Philosophy, Personal Growth, Book Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 4 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religion: Mysticism</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religious Quality: 4 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Christianity-Teaching Quality: 2 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Tells a good story: 5 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Character development: 5 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis (<span style="color: #cc0000;">Caution: Spoiler Alert</span>-Jump to <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-alchemist.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a>):</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coelho
writes a story, maybe an extended parable, about a Spanish young man
by the name of Santiago. He is a shepherd, tending to 60 of his own
sheep throughout the countryside of lower Spain. One night he sleeps
in a broken down unused chapel. He has a dream about finding treasure
by the Pyramids. The story shows him pursuing this treasure by
consulting a fortune teller. Then a king in disguise tells him more
about how to go about finding this treasure.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
sells his sheep, goes to Tangiers, gets robbed and works for a
crystal merchant for almost a year. He saves up enough money to go
home and live on. Instead he takes off across the desert in the
company of an Englishman. They get stranded at an oasis. There he
meets a girl whom he falls in love with. He has a vision that the
oasis will be attacked. This leads to something like being a hero to
the oasis people.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
an alchemist searches for him and gives him the option of fulfilling
his dream or staying at the oasis and prospering. Santiago chooses to
fulfill the dream. The alchemist leads him on and teaches him how to
listen and interact with the desert. Then the alchemist leaves him,
but close enough that Santiago can find his Pyramid. But the treasure
is not there, but he is given a sign on where the treasure is.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Overall,
this is more a story of a young man finding purpose in his life and
living out his dream or in Coelho’s words, his Personal Legend.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago-shepherd
boy who goes on his Personal Legend leading to foreign lands and back
home.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Old
woman-reader of palms and interpreter of dreams</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Melchizadek-old
man who Santiago meets in Tarifa who talks about Personal Legend.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thief</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crystal
Merchant in Tangier</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Englishman-person
who was studying to become an alchemist</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Camel
driver-</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatima-In
the oasis. Santiago is in love with her.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alchemist-200
year old</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Places</u></span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalusia"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Andalusia</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarifa"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Tarifa</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-now
a lot more famous for its windsports and beautiful beaches.</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangier"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Tangier</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Al-Fayoum
oasis</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pyramids</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
Laura-Book Group selection</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
December 14, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book: 1990</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: I am a bit reluctant to read this book.
Previously I read Coelho’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Pilgramage</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
about the Camino de Santiago. I thought it made a wreck out of a
Catholic walk. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it?I do not know</span></span></li></ul> <br /><b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alchemist:
a person who transforms or creates something through a seemingly
magical process. Usually we think of this kind of person as
concentrating on changing lead to gold. While this is a small part of
the story, being an alchemist is more than that in Coelho’s eyes. I
think Coelho is portraying an alchemist as someone who can change
themselves.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Foreword</u></span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u> </u>Coelho’s
book was definitely not an instant bestseller-nobody was buying it.
But this was Coelho's own personal quest-in the book he names these
quests as Personal Legend. So he did not give up. He adopted the
themes he talks about, such as when you are pursuing your Personal
Legend, the whole universe conspires to help you. Coelho says that
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
I sat down to write The Alchemist, all I knew is that I wanted to
write about my soul.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
1986 Coelho walked the 500-plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela
in northwestern Spain.On the path, he had a spiritual awakening,
which he described autobiographically in The Pilgrimage. In an
interview, Coelho stated "[In 1986], I was very happy in the
things I was doing. I was doing something that gave me food and water
– to use the metaphor in The Alchemist, I was working, I had a
person whom I loved, I had money, but I was not fulfilling my dream.
My dream was, and still is, to be a writer." Coelho would leave
his lucrative career as a songwriter and pursue writing full-time. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
From </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho#Biography"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Wikipedia</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another
theme is understanding the language of the world/universe/God.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
feels that the story of Santiago, the shepherd boy, is his story. But
he also feels that each of us are also Santiago. According to him,
each person in the world is involved in everybody else’s Personal
Legend. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Even
if my neighbor doesn’t understand my religion or understand my
politics, he can understand my story. If he can understand my story,
then he’s never too far from me</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Themes
in the book:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Language
of God. Coelho talks about how dreams are this language and how God
communicates with us.</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Personal
Legend-this is the discovery of what you are all about, the quest
which you want to go on.</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Soul
of the World: it is nourished by people’s happiness. When you
want something with all of your heart, you are close to the Soul of
the World.</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Soul
of God-the Soul of the World is part of the Soul of God</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">World
Conspires to help you.</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Principle
of favorability. Or beginners luck. This favors those who are at the
start of something.</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Intuition
is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current
of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are
able to know everything, because it’s all written there</i></span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">God
is the one who sets signs and omens in our path. It is up to us to
recognize and follow them.</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alchemy--it
is about penetrating to the Soul of the World, and discovery the
treasure reserved for you</span></span></p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Prologue</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
It was about Narcissus with a twist concerning the lake saying:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was
beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I
could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected,</i></span></span></p>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Part
One</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
was a Spanish shepherd boy with 60 sheep. He falls asleep in a
breakdown church and dreams a strange dream. But the dream is
incomplete. This will be a spot which plays into the story line. He
had been to a town where he had been able to sell wool to a merchant.
He had grown fond of the merchant’s daughter.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like
seamen, shepherds could always have a place where </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>there
was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree
wandering.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Interesting phrase. Coelho can turn these phrases.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coelho
talks about how the sheep look to Santiago. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
trust me, and they’ve forgotten how to rely on their own instincts,
because I lead them to nourishment.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is the essence of what a good politician learns. It is not the
promises, it is when the people are content is when you are popular.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
never have to make any decisions, he thought. Maybe that’s why they
always stay close to me.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
complain about things which are essential. In Santiago’s case, it
was </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had
the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But he is wise enough to understand that it is this weight which
keeps him warm at night. Like a warm jacket, everything, including
the boy, has a purpose. He</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
had wanted to know the world, and this was much more important to him
than knowing God and learning about man’s sins.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His
desire to see more of the world besides his village led him to be a
shepherd. He had attended seminary to improve his family’s
existence. He could go wherever he and his sheep desired. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It’s
the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life
interesting. </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
Tarifa there was an old woman who interpreted dreams. He would see
her about his dream before meeting with the merchant’s daughter.
The old woman says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>dreams
are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can
interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the
soul, it is only you who can understand.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She says that she will not charge him anything, but if he finds his
treasure, he is to give a tenth to her. She says to seek the pyramids
to find the treasure. She goes on and says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It’s
the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only
wisemen are able to understand them.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
was able to make friends wherever he went. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at
the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And then as people change, they want you to change. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Everyone
seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their
lives, but none about his or her own.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
then meets an old man. Eventually Santiago finds out his name is
Melchizadek. The boy is irritated by the old man interrupting his
reading. But the old man says that he has already read the book and
like all books, they </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>describes
people’s inability to choose their own Personal Legends. And it
ends up saying that everyone believes the world’s greatest lie.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
That lie is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>that
at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s
happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s
the world’s greatest lie.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
old man wanted three of his sheep in order to tell him how to find
his treasure. Who is this old guy Santiago wants to know? The king of
Salem-see </span></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+14%3A18-24&version=NIV"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Genesis</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Melchizadek says</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
that the most important </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[thing]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
is that you have succeeded in discovering your Personal Legend. …
Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But there is a force which is at work saying that you cannot fulfill
your Personal Legend. Melchizedek goes on and says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Soul of the World is nourished by people’s happiness.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Also that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>when
you want something , all the universe conspires in helping you
achieve it. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
We are stopped by being practical. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>people
are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
are hampered by what people think of us. There is a tendency to
restrict our dreams to be OK with other people. We give up our
Personal Legend.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>People
learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Melchizadek
wants a tenth of Santiago’s flock in order to help Santiago find
his treasure. When Santiago tries to bargain by giving him a tenth
of the treasure, Melchizedek says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>it’s
good that you’ve learned that everything in life has its price.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and
something he wanted to have.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is the crux to many of our decisions. How badly do we want
something which is out of our reach, or which we need to at least
strive for.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>when
each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to
recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that
the sun rises.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
felt the wind from Morocco. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
boy felt jealous of the freedom of the wind, and saw that he could
have the same freedom. There was nothing to hold him back except
himself.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
One of the key teachings of Coelho.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
decided to follow his Personal Legend. The old man said that his
treasure was near the Pyramids in Egypt. Santiago was to follow the
omens. He gives Santiago two stones: Urim and Thummin-black and
white, yes and no. Always ask an objective question-all of our
questions, particularly to ourselves, should be that way. Definite,
not mushy. The old man advises, try to make your own decisions, but
the stones will help you read the omens. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
scene now changes to Tangier. Santiago thought that now he had money
for the sale of his sheep, it would be a straight line to get to the
Pyramids. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
God leads the sheep so well, he will also lead a man, he thought, and
that made him feel better.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
he gets snookered out of his money on the first day there. A man
offered to guide him across the desert, but he needed to acquire
camels to do that. So Santiago gave him his money and never saw him
again. The shopkeeper where he was at tried to indicate, do not trust
him. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I’m
like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to
see happen, not what actually does.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He asked the stones if what the old man said still held true? Yes.
Should he continue on his Personal Legend? But the stones left that
decision up to him. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
had learned that there were certain things one shouldn’t ask about,
so as not to flee from one’s own Personal Legend.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
realized that he could look at Tangiers as a strange place or a new
one. He chose a new one. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>As
he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose
between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an
adventurer in quest of his treasure.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to
understand the world.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
meets a crystal merchant. He cleans his crystal and the merchant
feeds him. But the merchant noted that the boy did not need to clean
the crystal, he would have fed him anyway, because the Koran required
him to do so. Why did you have me clean the crystal then? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Because
the crystal was dirty. And both you and I needed to cleanse our minds
of negative thoughts.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
There is a sense that good work will cleanse the mind.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
was offered a job by the crystal merchant. After a long pause,
Santiago made a decision </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“I
need money to buy some sheep.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Part
Two</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
had been with the merchant for a month and even though not content,
was resigned to the fact that he would not be able to go after his
Personal Legend. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
treasure was now nothing but a painful memory, and he tried to avoid
thinking about it.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And that is how dreams of youth fade away. First we rationalize that
we will do it later, then get carried away by the woes of this world.
The merchant is cautious, since </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>we
two have to live with our mistakes</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and do not have enough resources to cover major ones. But Santiago
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to
help it as it’s doing to help us. It’s called the principle of
favorability.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
thought the merchant did not think of travel. But he did. He had
wanted to go to Mecca to fulfill the requirements of the Koran. But
now, he is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>afraid
that if my dream is realized, I’ll have no reason to go on living.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It is much easier to dream than to do. And like a ball at rest,
unless something happens, it will always be at rest. And now, he
sees Santiago and realizes that Santiago wants to fulfill his dream.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Every
blessing ignored becomes a curse.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Santiago kept making suggestions about how to expand the shop. The
merchant is reluctant and talks about why-first, he did not see the
possibilities and second he did not want to change. Santiago has been
the impetus in making him change. The merchant is both blessed and
disturbed.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
eleven months in Tangier, Santiago had made enough to go back to
Tafier. But the merchant being wise said that is not what the boy
would be doing. As he was packing, he thought about the</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose,
and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Was shepherding what he really wanted to do? He was no longer happy
with that decision. He felt far from the old king. But then realized
that he was seeing the old king in several places in the city, even
the crystal merchant had a resemblance. He decided to investigate how
far it really was to go to the Pyramids. (The answer is 2,800 miles.
Sounds like a “normal” camel can travel 40 miles a day-a military
one 80 to 120. So this would be at least a 70 day trip.)</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
meets up with the Englishman who ignores him. The Englishman wants to
meet the 200 year old alchemist to gain his secrets. But warms to him
when he sees Santiago fingering the Urin and Thummin. They catch a
caravan to Al-Fayoan. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alchemy-what
is Coelho’s definition?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
realized that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>making
a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a
decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry
him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the
decision.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
closer one gets to realizing his Personal Legend, the more that
Personal Legend becomes his true reason for being.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden
immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the
histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know
everything, because it’s all written there.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
caravan Santiago was going in had detours, but whenever they had to
move from the original objective, they always got reoriented into the
direction of the oasis. Everybody knew this because of where a
certain star was. That is except for the Englishman who only studied
his books.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
they were going along, there was a rumor of a war between tribes.
When asked about danger, the camel driver said that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>when
you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of
moving forward.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emerald
Tablet-contained only a few lines, but was the key to unlocking all
wisdom.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Englishman wanted to make everything complex. Santiago seemed to want
to simplify everything. To the Englishman, he wanted the formula to
be able to repetitively turn lead to gold. Santiago seemed like he
wanted to learn how to live and change with life. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
boy was becoming more and more convinced that alchemy could be
learned in one’s daily life.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Four
alchemists, which Coelho says found out the secrets of alchemy:
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Helvétius,
Elias, </i></span></span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulcanelli"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Fulcanelli</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
and Geber.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Everyone
has his or her own way of learning things,</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
camel driver noted that he was not concerned about the war between
tribes. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in
the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll
be a happy man.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
caravan arrives at the oasis. There are a myriad of languages spoken
by several people. Santiago has gotten in tune with the desert. He
realizes that people have gotten wrapped up with words and pictures
that they do not know how to read the signs of nature around them.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>God
revealed his secrets easily to all his creatures.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
oasis was a place of peace. Weapons were handed over. Santiago
realizes that as he is pursuing his Personal Legend, it is getting
harder. No longer does he have beginner's luck. But he realizes
that God has set signs and omens in his path. This is a new
realization to him-that God sets things for him. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Englishman thought he would find the alchemist at the oasis. But they
could not find them. Santiago realizes that there are a different set
of customs, such as talking to a woman who was married was not
allowed.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
he sees a woman and falls in love. It is not an infatuation, but a
recognition of what he is feeling comes from his sense of the world.
He finds out her name is Fatima. As the time came to a month and the
war may not end, Fatima and Santiago got to know each other. She
wanted him to seek his Personal Legend and she would wait. She felt
she was part of his Personal Legend.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Englishman found the alchemist. The alchemist told him to try to
change lead to gold. So that is what he will be doing. This time, the
Englishman felt he would succeed because he was doing this without
fear of failure.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
Santiago gazed into the desert, he had a vision of an army attacking
the oasis. He was convinced to talk to the oasis leaders. They
accepted the prophecy, but with the proviso that if the attack did
not happen, he would die. A seer said that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>God
only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is only for one
reason: it's a future written so as to be altered.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
had succeeded in reaching through to the Soul of the World, and now
the price for having done so might be his life. It was a frightening
bet.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
lone horseman with a sword confronts Santiago about reading the omen
of the hawks. Santiago is at peace. If he was to die, he would die
pursuing his Personal Legend. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Courage
is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the
World.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The horseman was the alchemist.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
visits the alchemist after the battle. He is rich and feels more
content. But the alchemist is meant to point him to where his
treasure is. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Remember
that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This seems like it is just a restatement of what </span></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A21&version=NIV"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jesus
sai</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">d:
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>where
your treasure is, there your heart will be also.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
alchemist takes them out into the desert where Santiago finds a sign
of life, a cobra. The alchemist catches the cobra and encircles it.
Santiago is willing to go back to Fatima and the oasis. But the
alchemist says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>She
knows that men have to go away in order to return.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The alchemist shows him he will be rich and powerful and discontent
if he does not seek his Personal Legend.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
alchemist has not taught him anything.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
There is only one way to learn,” the alchemist answered. “It’s
through action.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>you
have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in
it all the marvels of creation.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Reminds me of what Martin Luther said about a single grain of wheat:
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
you could understand a single grain of wheat, you would die of
wonder.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
(Unknown source)</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Every
second of the search </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(for
his personal treasure) </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>is
an encounter with God.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Every
search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the
victor’s being severely tested.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
are confronted by tribesmen. The alchemist says the truth. But they
do not believe him and go on their way. The alchemist notes to
Santiago that even when you possess great treasures within, people
will seldom believe you.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>anyone
who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing never will
discover his own</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
are captured by one of the warring tribes. The alchemist says that
Santiago is an alchemist and will make the wind rise on the third
day. Is this a reference to Jonah being spit out of the whale on the
third day? Or Jesus rising on the third day? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
is put to the test. In doing so, he learns how to be with the
desert. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear
of failure. … Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more
aware of their lives.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Santiago converses with the desert and the wind. The wind teaches him
how to be the wind and Santiago creates a major windstorm.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
you are loved, you can do anything in creation. </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
we love, we always strive to become better than what we are</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
the windstorm, there were two happy people. First, the alchemist as
he knew he had found his perfect disciple. The second, was the chief
of the tribe, because he saw the hand of God.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coelho
takes the Biblical story of the centurion who has a sick slave. He
comes to Jesus and asks that his slave be healed, but does not
require Jesus’ presence or touch. Jesus says his faith is
astonishing. The alchemist says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>No
matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in
the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
comes to the Pyramids and feels that his Personal Legend has been
accomplished. He has examined his heart and has accomplished the
goal. But </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>no
project is completed until its objective has been accomplished.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He finds a spot in the dunes near the Pyramid and starts to dig. And
he digs all night and finds nothing. Robbers come upon him and take
what he has and beat him, leaving him. Except the lead robber comes
back and says how foolish he is to follow a dream. He had a dream on
this very spot which said for him to dig in a certain spot in Spain.
But he was not foolish enough to follow the dream.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> <br /></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Epilogue</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
is now back at the spot where he had his original dream, digging. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
he hadn’t believed in the significance of recurrent dreams, he
would not have met the Gypsy woman, the king, the thief, or . . .
“Well, it’s a long list.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And he found the treasure buried in the old beaten up church. He
makes sure to give his 10% to the Gypsy. And then he smells Fatima in
the wind and will return to her.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A reader’s
digest version can be summed up by Shakespeare in Hamlet: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
Thine Self Be True.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Or the older, longer version is Bunyon’s Christian in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pilgrim’s
Progress.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In the latter, you have a person struggling to overcome all manner of
obstacles, in the former is the goal of a person.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paulo
Coehlo’s Santiago is similar to both. He has a quest, or in
Coehlo’s terminology, a Personal Legend. He is seeking a treasure
which he has seen in a dream. This Personal Legend takes him from
being a shepherd in Spain to Tangier’s where he works for a crystal
merchant. Then across the desert where he meets his love. And then
finally to Egypt and the Pyramids. There he discovers where his
treasure is.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Along
the way, he has encouragers and interpreters of his Personal Legend.
There are also obstacles which he has to overcome. He refines and
grows until Santiago achieves not only what he is looking for, but
also a status of understanding himself and his world.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is a book which is worth reading, if for no other reason to refresh
your desire to fulfill your calling and not fall short. Coehlo’s
story is about average, but that is not why you read this tale. Like
Jesus’ parables, it is the point which causes you to listen and
read and consider yourself. And Coehlo’s point of striving for
your goal is well worth considering.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
would you have defined what an alchemist is before reading this book?
What do you think Coehlo's definition of an alchemist is? Is the
changed life which Coelho talks about similar to or the same as how
Christians talk about as having their lives changed?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who
is called an alchemist in the book? Why have they acquired that tag?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
does Coelho start with the myth of Narcissus? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coelho
identifies something called Personal Legend. What is it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
Personal Legends are identified in the book? Did anybody’s Person
Legend seem a bit shallow?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
much of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Alchemist</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
is personal to Coelho? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
I sat down to write The Alchemist, all I knew is that I wanted to
write about my soul.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
As a note, Coelho went on the Camino de Santiago before writing this
book and wrote </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Pilgrimage</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
It is said that Coelho found himself on the Camino. Do you think
Coelho's choice of Santiago (James in English) was by chance or that
Coelho was trying to portray something deeper?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago
was taken by a merchant’s daughter in one of the towns he visited.
But eventually fell in love with Fatima, a daughter of the desert
oasis. How would Santiago's pursuit of his vision be different if he
had continued to pursue the daughter? Would it have been a mistake to
have settled with her? Would he have been true to himself if he had?
How can a person tell in the moment what would be the true thing to
do?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Everyone
seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their
lives, but none about his or her own.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Who knows best how to lead your life? Who tries to lead it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Melchizedek
says that people think that they have an </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>inability
to choose their own Personal Legends. And it ends up saying that
everyone believes the world’s greatest lie.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
That lie is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>that
at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s
happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s
the world’s greatest lie.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Do you think he is right? Can you find examples of this?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
themes does Coelho explore in this book? Did they resonate with you?
Did you find any of the themes different from your way of thinking?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>when
you want something , all the universe conspires in helping you
achieve it. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Have you found this is true? In what way?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santiago</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and
something he wanted to have. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Explain this.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was or is your Personal Legend?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
closer one gets to realizing his Personal Legend, the more that
Personal Legend becomes his true reason for being. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Is this true?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Englishman’s Personal Legend is to turn lead into gold. How
fulfilling do you think he will be if he is able to? Why? He thinks
he will be able to after talking to an alchemist, because he no
longer has a fear of failure. Why does Coelho include this into his
tale? How does fear inhibit us?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coelho
notes that we tend to modify our desires, or Personal Legend, based
upon other people’s expectations. How have you felt this?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Name
some of the reasons which Coelho gives for not seeking a Personal
Legend,</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about this statement: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Every
blessing ignored becomes a curse.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How true is this statement?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
while back we read </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Shack</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
which had a whole bunch of pithy sayings. How would you compare </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Alchemist</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
to </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Shack</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?
What makes one set of sayings important and another set to be
truisms?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coelho
talks about the wind at certain places in the book. Where does the
wind come into play? How does Coelho use the wind to move Santiago?
Why does he use the wind in this way?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
you think Coelho was using the Urim and Thummin like an </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ouija
Board</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
or a </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_8_Ball"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Magic
Eight Ball</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?
How does Coelho say to use the Urim and Thummin? When Santiago was
in Tangiers, he asked the stones if he should continue on his quest.
The stones were silent, Why? How does the </span></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+27%3A21&version=NIV"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Old
Testamen</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t
say it should be used? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Remember
that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How does this compare with Jesus’ statement about heart and
treasure? (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>where
your treasure is, there your heart will be also.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">)</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Courage
is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the
World.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Why? What is this Language of the World according to Coelho?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Alchemist</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as a parable or morality story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
there anybody you would consider religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did they show it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
the book overtly religious?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did it affect the book's story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
central ideas does the author present?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
they personal, sociological, global, political, economic, spiritual,
medical, or scientific</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>evidence</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
does the author use to support the book's ideas?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is
the evidence convincing...definitive or...speculative?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author depend on personal opinion, observation, and assessment?
Or is the evidence factual—based on science, statistics, historical
documents, or quotations from (credible) experts?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
these idea’s controversial? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
whom and why?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is the culture described in this book different than where we live?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/fiction-discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Groups General Fiction Guide</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://b0f646cfbd7462424f7a-f9758a43fb7c33cc8adda0fd36101899.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/teaching-guides/TG-9780062315007.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Publisher’s
Guide</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/the-alchemist/guide"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Group Guide</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>s</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://www.bartleby.com/lit/the-alchemist/discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Bartleby</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://bookclubbites.com/the-alchemist-book-club-questions-and-recipe/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book
Club Bites</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
- The questions do not seem to be that good as there are several
misstatements</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://borderlinemillennials.com/book-club/the-alchemist-part-one-discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Borderline
Millennials</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Alchemist/discussion-questions/page-1/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Course
Hero</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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</p> <br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Levanter:
an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and
southern France</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maktub:
an Arabic word meaning “it is written”, deals with the
philosophical idea of fate or destiny and is significantly
incorporated into Islam</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Simum:
hot wind</span></span></li></ul>
<div>
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line of Forward: When The Alchemist was first published twenty-five
years ago in my native Brazil, no one noticed.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line of story: The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the
caravan had brought</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: If he hadn’t believed in the significance of recurrent
dreams, he would not have met the Gypsy woman, the king, the thief,
or . . . “Well, it’s a long list.”</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s
the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life
interesting. Part One</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s
the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only
wisemen are able to understand them. Part One</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Everyone
seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their
lives, but none about his or her own. Part One</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">we
lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become
controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie. Part One</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">People
learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Part One</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">when
each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to
recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that
the sun rises. Part One</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose
between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an
adventurer in quest of his treasure. Part One</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
blessing ignored becomes a curse. Part Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">making
a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a
decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry
him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the
decision. Part Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
closer one gets to realizing his Personal Legend, the more that
Personal Legend becomes his true reason for being. Part Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">when
you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of
moving forward. Part Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.
Part Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember
that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. Part
Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
you are loved, you can do anything in creation. Part Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
we love, we always strive to become better than what we are. Part Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No
matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in
the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it. Part Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">no
project is completed until its objective has been accomplished. Part
Two</span></span></li></ul></div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Foreword</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prologue</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
One</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Epilogue</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<br />
<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-alchemist-paulo-coelho?variant=41227794874402"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://paulocoelhoblog.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(novel)"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho#"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Paulo-Coelho/dp/0061122416"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Paulo-Coelho/author/B000AQ3HB8?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-alchemist-paulo-coelho/1100258647"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18144590-the-alchemist?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=QBqNgdi5lW&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/566.Paulo_Coelho"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Times
of India </span></span><a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/web-stories/explaining-the-alchemist-by-paulo-coelho-in-10-sentences/photostory/106838129.cms"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">YouTube
- </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbFG1vjNuvA"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Four
Minute Books</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/the-alchemist"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Group Guides</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.bartleby.com/lit/the-alchemist"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Bartleby</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://bookclubbites.com/the-alchemist-book-club-questions-and-recipe/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book
Club Bites</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
- The questions do not seem to be that good as there are several
misstatements</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://borderlinemillennials.com/book-club/the-alchemist-part-one-discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Borderline
Millennials</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Alchemist/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Course
Hero</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-77763468361067017842024-02-13T21:36:00.000-08:002024-02-25T21:52:28.961-08:00Restoring Your Spiritual Passion<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgahtAUl6YrVzVlRiDqZy1duycAeo0HrTrFFcNf15KjD3ZLJDZKmo2k_JgcBkdpo1AMTG8CLfwP77JLaP3KeEaOe0leJwlVbcrh29ZZ5PsyO21tS09EmgDCt-8H9oSp6INBeDgiVNpr4TFKFY8xIrxwexDwpkWA7hZ180hJDtBc3ccCm9QEeKyenGqkfdA/s350/514qUbw1eJL._SL350_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="228" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgahtAUl6YrVzVlRiDqZy1duycAeo0HrTrFFcNf15KjD3ZLJDZKmo2k_JgcBkdpo1AMTG8CLfwP77JLaP3KeEaOe0leJwlVbcrh29ZZ5PsyO21tS09EmgDCt-8H9oSp6INBeDgiVNpr4TFKFY8xIrxwexDwpkWA7hZ180hJDtBc3ccCm9QEeKyenGqkfdA/s320/514qUbw1eJL._SL350_.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><p></p><div><b>Book: Restoring Your Spiritual Passion</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c200f72c-7fff-af91-6ec9-16d8530decd3" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Gordon MacDonald</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: Hardback</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Oliver-Nelson Books</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9780840790699 (ISBN10: 0840790694)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: January 19, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: February 13, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">223 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Christianity, Personal Growth</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religion: Christianity</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religious Quality: 3 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Christianity-Teaching Quality: 4 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
book is broken into two parts with seventeen chapters. The first
part deals with the causes of why people lose their passion for
God-mostly just plain old fatigue. The second part talks about how to
get back your passion.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being
a pastor, he likes two things: stories and bullet points. Almost all
chapters have them.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
usually starts each chapter with an illustration, a story, which
loosely deals with the theme. Sometimes I am not sure what the story
has to do with the theme. Also he likes bullet points to expand upon
the subject of each chapter.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Preface</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MacDonald
talks about being weary of walking as a Christian.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks about the word passion-others may substitute words like power,
zeal, enthusiasm or joy.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">People
who are in this state would rather not be told what they are feeling
rather being empathized with. Along with that, he notes that there is
not a 1-2-3 remedy. Not a magical breakthrough. He wants to give
principles rather than formulas. He wants to talk about what tires us
out.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>It’s
Got to Glow in You All the Time</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
examines the word </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>passion</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Asks, what seizes you? What stimulates you for excellence? Or causes
you to strive for something? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
passion is necessary in the performance of Christian faith.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
… </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>true
Christian maturity does not preclude passion.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But how do you keep it up for an extended length of time? He says
that as you mature, you channel it better.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about a Willard Hotchkiss-I have not heard of him-who was able to
serve out his days as a missionary with passion. Maybe </span></span><a href="https://missiology.org.uk/pdf/e-books/hotchkiss_willis-r/then-and-now-in-kenya--colony_hotchkiss.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>WIllis
Hotchkiss</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about sometimes the Christian life gets to be like a ship put up in
mothballs, never to be used again and good only for salvage.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Doing
More and Enjoying It Less</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks about being busy with not enough time for reflection and the
things which tend our spirits. Without these times it leads to
fatigue and frustration.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
better you are at something, the more you are asked to do.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Weariness
comes not only from the secular business, but what we are asked to do
religiously.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Business
will burn our passions so there is no fuel left</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
are left with no time for input.</span></span></p></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Look
for the spaces where one can restore. Used to those came naturally.
Travel was slower paced. No radio or TV or computers.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
difference between feeling fatigued and being fatigued. Feeling
fatigued may be a false signal.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
Wesley: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Though
I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry because I never undertake
more work than I can go through with calmness of spirit.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
From </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>John
Wesley's Sermons: An Anthology</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>It’s
All Over</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
wise person looks ahead and plans for the places fatigue will set in.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
person knows, therefore, how to gather the necessary energy or
passion ahead of time, how to parcel it out during the most
challenging periods, and how to restore that inner force later on.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jesus
had his disciples take time off.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MacDonald
lists seven conditions that threaten spiritual passion:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Drained Condition. Sort of like having a hangover. He gives Elijah
as an example after dealing with the priests of idols. Strong sense
of self-doubt and negativism. MacDonald notes that some men are
drawn to sensuality. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
are drained of spiritual passion that they are open to anything that
hints it might be able to restore the emptiness caused by giving out
so much.</i></span></span></p></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Running
on Empty</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Continue
list from previous chapter</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2) <span> </span>The
Dried Out Condition. This is where the person has not refreshed
himself. Always giving out and not taking anything in.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3) <span> </span>The
Distorted Condition. We get faced with a barge of messages which
needs filtering out. Some slip by and we yield to the message of our
inadequacy.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Further
Threats to Spiritual Passion</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4) <span> </span>The
Devastated Condition. Faced with opposition, the person gets beaten
down. There is a sense of despair. This is not to be taken lightly.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5) <span> </span>The
Disillusioned Condition. This is when you dream of something
particularly if it is large, and nobody seems to support that dream.
He cites Moses when he is trying to lead the Hebrews out of slavery,
the people were reluctant to follow.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6) <span> </span>The
Defeated Condition. When a person fails, it leaves a person in this
position.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7) <span> </span>The
Disheartened Condition. Alternative word is intimidated. Ahab saw
what he was facing and withdrew and stopped worshiping God.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Those
Who Bring Joy</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">People
can invigorate or exhaust a person. Understanding this will help us
manage our energy. Being with people is a never ending process.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Five
Kinds of People That Affect Spiritual Passion</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1) <span> </span>The
very Resourceful People They Ignite Our Passion. He calls them VRP.
They are mentors. There is a sense of openness, of believing in a
person, standard setters. It is good to be around these people, but
more as a fueling stop than residing with them. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2) <span> </span>The
Very Important People: They Share Our Passion. VIP. Like Barnabas was
to Paul. These are people who we bond with and who are going in the
same direction as us. Charles Simon and Henry Venn.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3)<span> </span> The
Very Trainable People: They Catch Our Passion. VTP. The person
lites someone else's passion and gains energy from seeing another
take off.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Happy and the Hurting</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4)
<span> </span>The Very Nice People: VNP. They Enjoy Our Passion. These are
wonderful people, friends, good people. But they do not advance our
passion. But neither do they take away. They are just there. Do not
infuse honor with devotion.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5) <span> </span>The
Very Draining People: VDP. They Sap Our Passion. These are hurting
and lonely people. While we should not shy away from helping them, be
aware of what happens to you. You need a way to revitalize yourself.
Three things to be aware of: VDP are drawn to healthy people. Two,
healthy people will lose their vitality if there is too many VDP
around.VDP’s need to have limits placed on their contacts.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Friendly
Fire</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
person who wants to serve God has to understand that they are part of
a war. Some of the battles are out in the open. But several of the
fights will be akin to guerilla warfare. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Four
Spirits That Destroy Spiritual Passion</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Competitive Spirit. We tend to look at fellow Christians as our
partners. Sometimes they look more like competitors. As an American,
we think of being first, of getting ahead rather than working
together. Do I do that? I will need to evaluate myself. Do I delight
in someone else’s success?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Critical Spirit. Finding flaws in another person. People may sing,
pray and worship together. But if they criticize behind another
person’s back, that will lead to ineffectiveness and discord.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">T</span><span style="font-size: small;">he
Vain Spirit. This comes from personal insecurity. We want to think
better of ourselves. Don’t build yourself up, let your works do
that for you. Don't tear others down. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>No
man can bear witness to Christ and to himself at the same time. No
man can give the impression that he is clever and that Christ is
mighty to save.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
James Denny. </span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Adversarial Spirit. How we handle those who oppose our ideas goes a
long ways towards how we are in relationship with that person. Do I
hate? Or do I look at reconciliation? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Spiritual
passion cannot coexist with resentments.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He notes that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is a kernel of truth in every critique. Look for it and you’ll be a
better man.</i></span></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>He
Knew I Couldn’t Handle It</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two
Inner Battles that War Against Spiritual Passions</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Battle of Ambition. This is an American trait. But if we think about
various positions where it would be unseemly to show ambition, then
we understand where this is not something which will advance our
spiritual lives. Part of the problem is that ambition causes us to
try to step on someone else to move up. Ambition is tiring-a constant
mental game.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Battle of Pride. Seductive. It starts with getting accolades and then
believing it and thinking you can do it all by yourself.</span></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>It’s
What’s Inside That Counts</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lives
are like airplanes running on autopilot. They can go on for a long
time, looking like everything is OK until they run out of fuel and
crash. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Action
without passion. Words without substance.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Inside these people are staleness and boredom.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MacDonald
thinks that we are heading towards an epidemic of fatigue.
Expectations not met after a while causes us to have a tendency to
give up.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Rack
‘Em Up</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
last time I remember having any serious amounts of extra time was
during my university days.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
First, I have been retired for 12 years. When I read this chapter, I
was in confinement due to COVID. So that statement did not resonate
with me. But during my working days, it would have.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a demoralizing cycle in the Christian life. First, a sense of
Jesus and me. Followed by a period of dryness and struggle. What
happens next might be a falling away or a revitalization and then the
process starts over again. I think Jesus told the parable of the
sower because of this. He understood that people go through times
where there is dryness. The goal is not to be choked out by weeds or
whither and become dead among the rocks.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Recollection:
those who have majored in the discipline of the inner spirit have
often seized upon that word as a description of what one does when
there is a need for restoration of spiritual passion.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
MacDonald thinks there is three things to do to recollect:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to
take time</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Is there a consecrated place in my life where I can form and enlarge
how I view God? Do I set aside a Sabbath time to refresh?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to
seek relationships.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Who are the people that I benefit from?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to
set priorities.</i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Safe
Places</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
need safe places in our worlds. Not merely when we are in trouble but
when we need to rest a bit, to regain our measure of spiritual
passion and composure for the coming challenges.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He then talks about David, his life, his challenges and what he says
about safe places. He quotes Henri Nouwen in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Clowning
in Rome</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Nouwen talks about the churches in Rome do not seem to have
functionality. They do not want to be places where people gather to
gawk like a museum. Instead </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>they
want to invite us to be silent, to sit or kneel, to listen
attentively, and to rest with our whole being.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
They are meant to be places </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>from
which all things grow.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He then quotes Frank Laubach who says that each of us is building his
own heaven or hell, one thought at a time.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
does not take much to turn where we are from the ordinary to a safe
place, or as in Laubach’s word, a palace. Just at a stop light one
can do that.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Place of Secrets</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
closer to God you go, the better is the resting place. </span></span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+63&version=KJV"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Psalm
63</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
is an example.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Four
Kinds of Safe Places That Restore Spiritual Passion</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Sanctuary. A place of refuge. A place where we can examine things
from an eternal perspective. People will be let down if they are
striving for applause or honor. </span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Night Room. This is where you lay your head. MacDonald says that this
is the place where you find the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>helpfulness
of God.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
A time to reflect on how God helped me throughout the day.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Protective Wings. Looking to God for protection.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Strong Hands. Picture a child walking beside their father.. This is
the image here. This is not a false sense of confidence, but a
confidence knowing that you have God by your side, if you are walking
with him. Even if you feel defeated. Think of Peter by the Sea of
Galilee after Jesus’ crucifixion. Jesus came and gave him a second
chance.</span></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Establish
a safe place. This should be a holy place for you. A place where you
can be alone with God, free from distractions. Safe place also is a
place which has memories and experiences with God. The more a place
is used, the better at being a safe place it will become-like a
greased iron skillet.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Still Times</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>proper
rest?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
MacDonald notes that much of what we consider rest is amusement. The
only remedy for an exhausted, passionless life is to tear it up and
put in a new layer within our soul. He calls the Sabbath </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>still
time.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Is rest from work a waste? Is it a less serious endeavor than work?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being
burnt out leads to the feeling of being spent, joylessness. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seven
Principles of Still Times That Restore Spiritual Passion</span></span></p>
<ol style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">T</span><span style="font-size: small;">he
Role-Model Principle. Jesus/God model this both in Jesus' life and in
Creation.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Rhythm Principle. </span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Rest Principle. The Sabbath was a fence to protect people from being
burnt out. (Similar as tithing was a barrier to materialism.) He
talks a bit about the difference between law and principle. God wants
us to act on principles rather than do nots. He thinks that
principles allows us to move and be guided, learning rather than
enforcing.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Remembrance Principle. Remembering is part of still time.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">T</span><span style="font-size: small;">he
Renunciation Principle. All within a household was to renounce work
on the Sabbath.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Refreshment Principle. See Exodus 31 for more on how God said to
rest. This has to do with being active in our rest, reaching down and
letting our souls be rested. </span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Recurrence Principle. This is not a one off, but something which
reoccurs. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
we discover the habit of snatching Sabbath moments, we will be
pressing God’s presence into the day, something like holes in a
piece of Swiss cheese.</i></span></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Special
Friends</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
gives a counter example out of a Joseph Heller book. Then shows from
Moses, Aaron, Hur and Joshua what can be accomplished with support.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
each of us has a map in our lives showing our safe places and a
calendar showing our still times, then we also should have an address
book that lists our special friends. Who are they?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McDonald
differentiates between special friends and acquaintances. He defines
special friends as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>those
whom the subject of spiritual passion is an important item.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He has six types of people whom he identifies as types of people who
can aid you.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Six
Special Friend Teammates That Help You Maintain Spiritual Passion</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Sponsor. Or mentor. This person gives opportunity and possibility. A
mentor can communicate from a larger perspective than you can see.
They open things up for the person. Typically the sponsor is used
more before mid-life and then sparingly afterwards. You find them
from people whom you want to emulate. It takes time to be a sponsor
and most people who are potential sponsors are already tied up with
their own responsibilities. </span></span>
</li><li> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">T</span><span style="font-size: small;">he
Affirmer. This person attaches value to what you are doing. This is
not just the empty compliments which we sometimes encounter. Rather
it is mutual discovery and evaluation. There are people who work at
the opposite-stay away from them. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>More
Special Friends</u></span></span></p>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3)<span> </span> The
Rebuker. This is a truth-teller friend. They tell us things about
ourselves which we do not want to hear. This friend tells us, not
others these things to help us. It is constructive, not destruction.
It is hard to hear this about ourselves. We do not win when we do not
hear how to improve. Some of this may be in a formalized setting
such as a doctor or an accountant. Rebuking is different from
criticism. But even criticism has truth. He quotes Dawson Trotman as
saying that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is a kernel of truth in every criticism. Look for it, and when you
find it, rejoice in its value.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
There is a certain amount of maturity to appreciate rebuke. Being
that special friend needs to be done with sensitivity and it will
cost a lot.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4) <span> </span>The
Intercessor. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its
members for one another or it collapses.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Dietrich Bonhoeffer in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Life
Together.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Also there is a section about praying for a brother not because we
agree, but because we both stand before Christ and share his mercy.
Who are my intercessors, those who will pray to God for me?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5) <span> </span>The
Partner. Who shares my load? Who helps me? MacDonald says that his
wife does that in many cases. He uses the case of Barnabas and Paul.
Then Later, Paul and Timothy. This is the person who wants nothing
from you, but to serve with you.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6) <span> </span>The
Pastor. Who makes sense out of life. Shepherds you, helps keep you
feed and keeps you with the rest of the flock.</span></span><br /></div><div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Restoring
Your Spiritual Passion</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MacDonald
gets into why he wrote the book-the weariness of the soul-I have
added of the soul. He points out that our safe place, or still times
and special friends are no longer up to the task as they have been
invaded.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are many ready made answers-rely on the Holy Spirit to refresh, meet
with like minded Christians, or being in the real world. But they
seem to fall short.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
sense of devotion and gratitude goes a ways towards revitalizing He
then talks about:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Three
Powerful Truths that Put the Christian Life in Perspective:</span></span></p>
<ol style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I</span><span style="font-size: small;">ntimacy
Makes It Possible to Hear God’s Wishes. Be in the place where you
can hear what God wants from you. Write down what you are hearing.
MacDonald notes that time budgeted for safe-place/still time is the
most single important event in his life. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Choice to Act is Often Taken at Great Risk. Moved from listening to
action.</span></span></li><li> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A</span><span style="font-size: small;">
Divine Energy Creates the Ultimate Passion. He takes us back to the
Creation and the first man and woman. There is a model there to
follow: Daily intimacy with the Creator, work of discovery of His
glories, the ecstasy of experiencing God. This was lost through
disobedience. The Christian story is one of restoration. </span></span>
</li></ol>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
book is close to 40 years old. There is no reason why this topic
should be out of date. Still, I had the impression how MacDonald
approached the subject did not touch me like a book on this subject
should. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
book is in two parts-how does a person lose their passion for God.
And then the conditions to return to that passion. Like a sermon of
that day, it seems pretty much formulaic rather than a Virgil guiding
the reader. There are plenty of bullet points-these days they would
have translated well into PowerPoints. And yet, few stirred me. Maybe
because the points were not hitting home. </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;"> </p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While
I do not think you will go wrong in reading this book, there are
other books which may assist you along the path to passion.
Particularly if you are in tune with the older writings of
contemplation.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MacDonald
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>true
Christian maturity does not preclude passion.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Why does he say that? What leads to mature Christians to lose their
passion for living for God?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
does MacDonald identify as causing fatigue? How can one avoid being
overcome by them?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MacDonald
notes that we should anticipate busy seasons and plan to be rested up
for them. How can you anticipate these busy seasons? What is an
effective method of resting and being ready for them?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
list of five people types are listed. Do you fall into any of those
types? Are you around any of them?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author notes that we are in a spiritual war. Do you feel like you are
in a war? MacDonald lists four traits of this warfare. Do any of them
resonate with you? Are there other ways you feel like you are doing
battle?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MacDonald
lists several things which will assist you to restore your passion:
Set aside time and place for communion with God; Seek out
relationships with quality people; and set your priorities to seek
Him. How will you be doing these? Do you think it will help you in
returning to a desire to please God?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
are your safe places? Safe times?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have
you identified your teammates on your walk? Is it a well rounded team
with the functions which MacDonald talks about? Do you think you need
all of the functions?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Restoring
Your Spiritual Passion</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this book work as an instruction? Contemplative?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
there anybody you would consider religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did they show it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
the book overtly religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did it affect the book's story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
</div><br /><div><div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lombardi</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Jerry Kramer</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2837590-by-their-blood?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=wcycnsCRep&rank=2"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>By
Their Blood</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Hefley and Hefley</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Springs
in the Valley</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Letti Cowman</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Life of General William Booth</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Bergie</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Journey
Among Students</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Howard Guinness</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Shantung
Compound</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Langdon Gilkey</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Friendly
Fire</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Reaching
Out</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Henri Nouwen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Oscar
Wilde</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Pearson</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Henry
Valey’s Life Story</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Ralph Turnball</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
Minister’s Obstacles</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Ralph Turnball</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Spiritual
Lessons to Women</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Francois Fenelon</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Clowning
in Rome</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Henri Nouwen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Something
Happening</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Joseph Heller</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Memories
of the Life of Rev Charles Simeon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by William Carus</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Table of Inwardness</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Calvin Miller</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: Within the kaleidoscope of my distorted childhood memories is
the image of a dusty, deserted road in rural Canada.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: Amen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Though
I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry because I never undertake
more work than I can go through with calmness of spirit. John Wesley,
John Wesley's Sermons: An Anthology</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No
man can bear witness to Christ and to himself at the same time. No
man can give the impression that he is clever and that Christ is
mighty to save. James Denny.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a kernel of truth in every critique. Look for it and you’ll be a
better man. Dawson Trotman</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
need safe places in our worlds. Not merely when we are in trouble but
when we need to rest a bit, to regain our measure of spiritual
passion and composure for the coming challenges. Chp Safe Places</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its
members for one another or it collapses. Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life
Together</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Preface</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s
Got to Glow in You All the Time</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doing
More and Enjoying It Less</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s
All Over</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Running
on Empty</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Further
Threats to Spiritual Passion</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those
Who Bring Joy</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Happy and the Hurting</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Friendly
Fire</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
Knew I Couldn’t Handle It</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s
What’s Inside That Counts</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rack
‘Em Up</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Safe
Places</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Place of Secrets</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Still Times</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Special
Friends</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More
Special Friends</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Restoring
Your Spiritual Passion</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sources</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3260642-restoring-your-spiritual-passion?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=I8Z2qWaCPG&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Restoring-Spiritual-Passion-Gordon-MacDonald/dp/0840790694"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Gordon-MacDonald/author/B001IR1KBM?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3260642-restoring-your-spiritual-passion?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=I8Z2qWaCPG&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/57352.Gordon_MacDonald"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-only-woman-in-room.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-only-woman-in-room.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-only-woman-in-room.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-only-woman-in-room.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-only-woman-in-room.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-only-woman-in-room.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-only-woman-in-room.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-only-woman-in-room.html#BookReferences">Book References</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-only-woman-in-room.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-only-woman-in-room.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-1e612f9c-7fff-e403-3380-dfbc63e6939f" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Marie Benedict</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Libby from the San Francisco Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9781492666868 (ISBN10: 1492666866)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: January 22, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: January 31, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">312 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Fiction, Fiction-History, OSHER</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 2 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">History: 2 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religion: Jewish</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Tells a good story: 3 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Character development: 4 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author tells a fictionalized story of Hedy Lamarr from 1933 to 1942
told from Lamarr's point of view. She takes us from the point where
Lamarr is pursued by her first husband in Vienna through him making
her as good as a prisoner in his mansions. She does sit in on many of
her husband's meetings which gives her an idea about how munitions
are manufactured and the weaknesses they have.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
she discovers her husband’s ties with the Nazi’s, she escapes
from him, leaves Austria and ends up in Hollywood via Paris and
London. In Hollywood she is under contract with Mayer who makes her a
star. She remarries, adopts a Jewish child, and gets divorced again.
She wants to redeem herself and aid the war effort. She and a
composer then work on developing a guidance system for torpedoes. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Navy rejected the invention until the Korean War. The book ends with
her pushing war bonds.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Hedwig
Eva Maria Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr)</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Jewish actress</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Mandl"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Friedrich
Mandl</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Arms manufacturer. Half Jewish. Power behind the Austrian government
for a time</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mrs.
Lubbig-Lamarr’s dressing in the Austrian theater</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mama-a
concert pianist before being married. Jewish</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Papa-a
banking officer at a large bank. Jewish</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%BCdiger_Starhemberg"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Prince
Ernst Rüdiger</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Camillo von Starhemberg-Austrian royalty and a power in Austrian
politics. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Count
Ferdinand von Starhemberg-</span></span><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Brother
to the Prince. This may not be true as when I looked at Ernst Rüdiger
Starhemberg’s family tree there is only one brother and that is not
Ferinand. </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a Ferdinand who was an ancestor of Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg.</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_B._Mayer"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Louis
Mayer</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Head
of MGM</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Reinhardt"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Max
Reinhardt</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Mentor
to Lamarr</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona_Massey"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Illona
Massey</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-first
roommate in Hollywood</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Markey"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Gene
Markey</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Second
husband</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">James
Lamarr Loder-Adopted son. Died May 2022. </span></span><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In
</b></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#Marriages_and_children"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Wikipedia</b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>,
there is some proof that he was actually Lamarr and John Loder’s
son while Lamarr was married to Markey. </b></span></span></span>
</li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Kettering"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Charles
Kettering</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Inventory
and head of the National Inventors COuncil</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Antheil"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>George
Antheil</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-composer
and tinker. Benedict does not give a good summary of his background,
but it encompasses a lot more than composing.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eddie
Rhodes-a real sailor who was planted in crowds to help incite people
to give to the war effort</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Places:</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Döbling</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Schloss
Schwarzenau</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Villa
Fegenberg</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">15
Schwarzenbergplatz</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hollywood</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
Osher </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
January 11, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book:</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: OSHER Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it?</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
problems I have with a fiction story which purports to be about
history are two fold. First, you never know where the author's
rendering of the story ends and the history begins. The second is you
do not know what is fiction or made up facts, where facts are bent
and what really happened. Benedict seems to put the worst of both
into this telling of a segment of Hedy Lamarr’s life.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
will be using her common name of Lamarr throughout this writeup
instead of her family or married names.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
Lamarr is portrayed makes me think that she is just as guilty of
manipulation as she is of being manipulated. How benedict portrays
her is that powerful men can and do use her, sometimes in a sexual
way. Her second husband reminds her of her father and so she marries
him and finds out that life with him is not a returning back to her
father. Her first husband overwhelms a talented teenager into
marrying him. She finds out that he is only using her to lure better
deals for his business.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
the other hand, how Benedict portrays her, she plays on the male
lusts for her getting what she wants. This is shown in her escape
attempt by the manipulation of a brother of her husband’s friend.
Then later on between marriages where she is on a constant dating
speed dail to stars, but not really committing to any. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also
as Benedict probably does not mean to show that Lamarr is not a good
judge of people. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
man was not the reputation, he had proven to me. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
there is being lured into doing </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ecstasy</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
as an underaged woman. Then judging Mandl as not being like what
people said about him. And finally the men she married did not speak
to her being able to find lasting relationships.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Part
I</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benedict
portrays Lamarr as being young and confident in her own abilities to
handle people. But then it seems like she meets someone, particularly
older men, who she melts in their presence.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benedict
has Lamarr, who is 18, closing a successful opening night playing
Empress Elisabeth of Austria. To her surprise and chagrin, somebody
sent a large number of bouquets to her, mostly anonymous. She finds
out that it is Mandl. She does not know who he is. Her dresser
updates her. He is a womanizer and owner of a large ammunition
manufacturer. Because of who he sells it to, he is known as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Merchant of Death.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He continued to send her bouquets. Finally asks her to dinner. She
did not feel comfortable accepting.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
lives in Döbling in Vienna, a Jewish neighborhood.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mandl
had also sent bouquets to her parents house. Her mother asks</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
What could you have possibly done to encourage such a display?” Her
tone held its usual judgment.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Benedict has set the tone that the mother was critical of Lamarr.
Mama made innuendo based upon Lamarr's film </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ecstasy</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Instead, Mandl invited himself to meet with her parents to ask to go
out with her for dinner. Parents were willing to meet with him since
he was a person of influence. The book has it that she did not want
to date him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>You
were born after the Great War, Hedy. You don’t understand how
politics can be a force of destruction</i></span></span><span style="color: #9900ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span></span><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>
Hedy Lamarr was born in November 1914. World War I started in July
1914 and ended in 1918.</b></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
government is moving towards a dictatorship and an alliance with
Germany. Mandl is one of the powers behind the government.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lamarr
meets Mandl for the first time. Instead of finding him repulsive, she
is attracted to him, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Not
in the physical sense exactly, although he was handsome in a polished
way with his impeccable navy </i></span></span><a href="https://savilerowco.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Savile
Row</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
suit and gleaming cuff links, but in the power and confidence that
exuded from him.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Instead of the immature males, he felt like a man. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I’d
always thought of Papa as a successful man, and he was, but only now
did I understand true power.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Savile
Row was started in 1938 and is a London based shop. This is 1933 and
would someone like Mandl buy from someplace in England?</b></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mandl’s
reputation is not good. But he asks Lamarr to judge him as he is and
says that</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
I am not my reputation.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interesting
phrase: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
respect of frankness.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I suppose the reason why we are not frank with each other is two
reasons. First the fear of losing somebody. Second is the desire not
to offend or provoke.’</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benedict
has the 19 year old Lamarr falling for him. Mandl is only 33 at this
time and has been married once before. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
I</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Lamarr]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
surrendered my world to him.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But he was reluctant to talk about his family. He kisses her for the
first time, seven weeks after treating her to lavish meals.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
had not been to any of his homes-see the places above. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mandl
asks for Lamarr to marry him. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
man was not the reputation, he had proven to me.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Her father has doubts, but Lamarr seems agreeable, to her father’s
surprise. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Was Papa telling me to refuse his proposal? His opinions mattered
quite a lot to me. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Lamarr did not recognize her own Jewishness. Her family was not
religious. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
few religious Jews I knew in our neighborhood, those who kept Sabbath
or displayed menorahs or mezuzahs in their homes, did so quietly, not
with the bold insouciance of the Ostjuden, and they looked like
everyone else.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Her father thought that Mandl might be able to protect her if the
Jews were persecuted like they were in Germany.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interesting
dialogue. From the above it sounds more like her parents were more
concerned with her protection than Mandl himself. They might not like
him, but he could be a safe haven for what they feared was coming.
Wikipedia has a different take on this </span></span><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Her
parents, both of Jewish descent, did not approve, due to Mandl's ties
to Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, and later, German Führer
Adolf Hitler, but they could not stop the headstrong Lamarr.</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The reference from this was “A Candid Portrait of Hedy Lamarr",
Liberty magazine, December 1938, pp. 18–19. I wonder where Benedict
got her take on Lamarr’s parents?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lamarr
accepts being Mandl’s wife, the security that would bring, and no
longer being an actress. Lamarr has to convert to Christianity to
marry Mandl. She agrees. But it sounds like she is no more Christian
in belief as her belief in Judaism was.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Papa
had always told me that the beauty I was born with must have a
purpose.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But so is brains, so is strength, so is weakness. We are all born
with a purpose. That is what a Christian belief is. The question of
our lives tends to be how we fulfill that purpose? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>low,
angry voice only I could hear</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-this
was during the selection of a wedding dress.It is a foreshadowing of
who Mandl really is. Not the man who is interested in what Lamarr is
rather interested in having his own way. Mandl wants to be in charge
of all facets of his life, including his wedding-not so much their
wedding.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Money
and power always prevail.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
On the honeymoon, the hotel staff made a minor mistake which showed
what kind of power Mandl had and what he expected. Also he is
possessive of Lamarr. Whenever someone, particularly a man, even
talked with Lamarr, Mandl got upset.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Lamarr and Mandl get back to Austria, they go to one of his places.
She is introduced to the staff. Mandl will take care of everything.
When Lamarr tries to figure out what is her duties, he replies </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
only onus that you should carry on your delicate shoulders is that of
your beauty.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I wonder how true this is or is Benedict making it up?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lamarr
is permitted to visit very few of her friends, but is able to see her
parents. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
is able to gather intelligence on a coup against the Austrian
government. But she did not realize this was by the Jews in Austria.
From this she joined Mandl in other meetings where she’d </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>been
the only woman in the room.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Yes, the title of the book-also used at the end. It is used at the
end of the book as well. Lamarr realized that the information she
gave helped to crush this rebellion. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Putsch"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>July
Putsch </u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">was
described and seems pretty much accurate. After the coup attempt, a
policy of appeasement was implemented towards Germany.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benedict
has Mandl showing Lamarr’s movie, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ecstasy</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
She has Mandl not really knowing the background and getting upset
over what appeared on the screen, becoming abusive to Lamarr. He
locks her into the house. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
But for the first time, I began to think about escape.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She goes on and says </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>let
him think he’d broken me and recast me into a mold of his own
making, a graceful automaton.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I would think someone like Mandl would have known about the film’s
reputation even before marrying Lamarr. It sounds like from Benedict
that Lamarr was already thinking about the weaknesses of the arms
Mandl was manufacturing. This would have been as a 21 year old.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lamarr
starts to lead Ferdinand von Starhemberg on, in a plan to escape.
Benedict says that </span></span><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ferdinand
is Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg’s younger brother, but there is no
mention of him in family trees. </b></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lamarr’s
father was sick. She confronts the servants-her keepers-to get to her
father’s side. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
I prayed to a nebulous god—</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Interesting comment. Who does Benedict think Lamarr is praying too?
The Judeo-Christian god? The cosmos? Something else? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
has angina. Doctor says that he will live, but is at risk of a heart
attack. He has Lamarr promise to protect her mother. Her father dies.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Concerns
about Italy and Germany moving closer. Also about the new
governments moving toward appeasement with Germany. Mandl and his
associates felt that the only true belief was the belief </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>in
the infallibility of their own power.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Lamarr is at a diner with Il Duce (Mussolini), Italy’s dictator who
makes a pass at Lamarr. Mandl’s power is weakening as well. Mandl
and von Starhemberg see the writing on the wall and are looking for
ways to switch sides. Even with Mandl being half blooded jewish, he
thinks that he would be an essential link for the Germans and be
exempt.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lamarr
attempts an escape by using Ferdinand under the guise of an affair.
Mandl finds out and intercepts the fake lovers. There is a penalty to
pay for this.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mandl
has a secret meeting with Hitler which Lamarr is not invited to. She
eavesdrops and hears that Mandl will be named an Honorary Aryan, but
Lamarr would be part of the Final Solution. She made plans to leave
Austria. Her mother would not come with her. On August 25, 1937, she
left, going to Paris, then England. Benedict does combine a couple
of accounts into how Lamarr escapes.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Part
II</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
gets divorced and makes herself known to Louis Mayer. She was renamed
from Mandl or Kiesler to Lamarr. She strikes a pay rate which she
finds acceptable. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>in
accepting a second history, I could never really leave the first
history behind.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
According to Benedict, Lamarr discovers this from her longing for
Austria.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lamarr
gets her first role in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Algiers</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
as a mysterious woman. Austria is united with Germany without any
hostilities. She was able to divorce Mandl. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
divorce not only freed me from my fears, but also gave me liberty to
date whomever I chose. This license gave me renewed hunger to bounce
from man to man, seeking a safe haven in their arms but never
surrendering my autonomy, </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now
Lamarr’s concern is to get her mother out of Austria. She used
Mayer’s connections to get her out. In the meantime, she started
going with Gene Markey and eventually married him, eight weeks later.
She did not tell Markey of her background. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lamarr
and her European friends were following what was going on in Europe
with great concern. At one of their gatherings, a woman proposed to
adopt Jewish children fleeing from Europe. Benedict has Lamarr
adapting one of them.</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Razovsky"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Cecilia
Razovsky</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
and </i></span></span><a href="https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/personal-story/frances-perkins"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Frances
Perkins</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
in America and </i></span></span><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rosenheim-kaete"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Kate
Rosenheim</u></i></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her
marriage to Markey was on the rocks. According to Benedict, Lamarr </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
found his desire for the false, public Hedy instead of the real one
upsetting.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But she also did not let Markey know who she was-a Jew for instance.
According to Benedict, she also did not let Markey know the source of
their adopted son, Jamesie, being a Jew. They divorced.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In
</b></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#Marriages_and_children"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Wikipedia</b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>,
there is some proof that he was actually Lamarr and John Loder’s
son while Lamarr was married to Markey. The reference is the New York
Post in 2001. This book was written in 2019. Lamarr passed of Jamesie
as being adopted. Benedict does not talk about an affair with Loder.
Also the book ends before she married Loder.</b></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sinking
of the </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_City_of_Benares"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>City
of Benare</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
affected her. She felt guilty over not telling what she knew. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Was
I exaggerating my own role?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
So she wanted to find some way to help stop Germany.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about meeting </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellmuth_Walter"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Hellmuth
Walter</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
who had done work in Germany on propulsion. This got her interested
in the guidance of torpedoes. She meets up with George Antheil, a
composer. Benedict has this meeting at a party. Wikipedia has it that
Lamarr consulted Antheil about a gland problem she was having-he
wrote an advice column and had written a book about female glands. </span></span><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
A</span></span></span><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>ntheil's
interest in this area brought him into contact with the actress Hedy
Lamarr, who sought his advice about how she might enhance her upper
torso. He suggested glandular extracts, but their conversation then
moved to torpedoes. BUT</i></span></span></span><a href="https://www.military.com/history/hedy-lamarrs-invention-changed-communications-heres-why-navy-rejected-it-during-wwii.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>
Military.com</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
has that the two did meet at a dinner party.</i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benedict
has it that Lamarr started working together with him because of
playing a piano duet with him and realizing how to change radio
frequencies.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
book has it that Lamarr figured this out. But from </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Antheil#Frequency-hopping_spread-spectrum_invention"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Wikipedia,</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
it sounded more like Antheil had it worked out for pianos and that
they adapted it for radio controlled torpedoes. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Antheil
and Lamarr developed the idea of using frequency hopping: in this
case using a player piano roll to randomly change the signal sent
between the control center and torpedo at short bursts within a range
of 88 frequencies on the spectrum (88 black and white keys are on a
piano keyboard). The specific code for the sequence of frequencies
would be held identically by the controlling ship and in the torpedo.
This basically encrypted the signal, as it was impossible for the
enemy to scan and jam all 88 frequencies because this would have
required too much power. Antheil would control the frequency-hopping
sequence using a player-piano mechanism, which he had earlier used to
score his Ballet Mécanique.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
conversation between Lamarr and Antheil sounds a bit different than
what I think it would be. Maybe too set up. Sort of goes through a
straw man type of dialogue with Lamarr having ready answers for
everything.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lamarr’s
mother is now in Canada, away from London and the bombing. Eventually
she ends up in Los Angeles.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lamarr
and Antheil work around their work schedules on the project on how to
guide torpedoes. They worked out how to synchronize the torpedo and
controller frequency changes based upon Antheil’s piano
synchronization. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benedict
throws in a bit of male impropriety with the celebration which makes
Lamarr concerned about their relationship.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
have secured the approval of the National Inventors Council and
Charles Kettering. The next step is to get approval by the Navy.
December 7th, 1941 has happened and the US is at war. The Navy
rejects their invention. They go to Washington and are rejected
again, in part because it was invented by a woman. They want her to
sell war bonds.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note:
This seems like the navy saw a talented person, but could only think
of how to use that person in one way.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So
Lamarr goes out and gets people to buy war bonds. The shtick was to
have a sailor planted in the crowd to give her a kiss. She said yes,
but the audience had to give a certain amount to make it happen. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benedict
has Lamarr thinking as she is on stage, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
How many masks have I worn on my path?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She also thought about how Antheil wanted her to continue working on
inventions </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Work to which I’d refused to return after the navy’s rejection,
even when George begged me; I simply couldn’t make myself that
vulnerable again.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
To the world she was a beautiful face. In her head she was an
inquisitive person who liked to invent. Also a Jew.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
I had always been alone under my mask, the only woman in the room.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interesting
that Benedict leaves it that she only worked on one thing. There was
all sorts of things which Lamarr worked on:</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.02in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An
enhanced stop light</span></span></li><li style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
solid cube, about the size of a bullion cube, but for soda drinks</span></span></li><li style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
mechanism which controlled the flaps on planes-Howard Hughes put
this on some of the planes he built.</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the Author’s Note, she says that some of the inner workings of a
cell phone was because Lamarr (and Antheil) invented the technology,
which was not used by the Navy. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>how
on earth did an invention patented by a dazzling movie star in 1942
eventually become part of the foundation for the modern cell phone, a
device that has transformed our world.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She goes into how this affected communications. There are a couple of
Wikipedia articles which goes into this: </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Spread
spectrum</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-hopping_spread_spectrum"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Frequency-hopping
spread spectrum.</u></i></span></span></span></a></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marie
Benedict writes imaginary tales about women whom we may not know much
about. For one, I have read her book </span></span><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-personal-librarian.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>The
Personal Librarian</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
about Belle Greene and appreciated just knowledge gained. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Only Woman in the Room</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
looks at a snippet of Hedy Lamarr’s life between the ages of about
18 to 28. She imagines what Lamarr and the people around her would be
like and sets up her story that way. While it is possible to get
insight through this process, it is also hard to know where
Benedict’s storytelling ends and Lamarr’s life begins.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By
this last statement is that Benedict follows the rough contours of
Lamarr’s life during this time period. Much, and maybe all, of the
dialogue and stories is conjecture on Benedict’s part. There are
some really basic things which Benedict bends Lamarr’s story, such
as when Lamarr was born and the status of her first son. Also there
is a lot left out of Lamarr’s story-such as the other things she
invented. This leaves us thinking Lamarr is a one hit wonder. These
and many other things make me cast questions in my mind about the
story which Benedict presents.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benedict
can write an entertaining story. I just do not trust the narrative
that she portrays about this real person. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the things which stands out in the book is how Lamarr’s
feminality is prominent. How does she use that to get what she wants?
How do others take advantage of her, manipulate her? Do you think if
Lamarr was around today her story would be the same? </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benedict
has her saying after her divorce that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
license gave me renewed hunger to bounce from man to man, seeking a
safe haven in their arms but never surrendering my autonomy, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Do you think she achieved this? How do you think this reservedness
affected her marriages?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benedict
says: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I’d
always thought of Papa as a successful man, and he was, but only now
did I understand true power.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Later on she has this to say: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>in
the infallibility of their own power. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
was said in regard to Mandl. Explain the difference between success
and power? Do you need to have one so you can have the other? Is
there a weakness in this statement?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mandl
uses the phrase </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
respect of frankness.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What does this mean to you? How is frankness a sign of respect? Can
it be something else?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Discuss
Lamarr’s Jewishness. Was it prominent in her life? How did it
affect who she was? What happened to her? What is her concept of God?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>in
accepting a second history, I could never really leave the first
history behind.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Do you think Lamarr was trying to escape who she was? Can one ever
escape your past? How or why not?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
this account, Mandl uses isolation and the implied threat of
coercion. Describe how this is done. What are the effects? What
lessons can we take from this? </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Lamarr and Antheil submits their frequency hopping device for use in
torpedoes, it gets rejected. What are the reasons given? What do you
think the reasons behind the reasons given are? What can we learn
today about how to evaluate ideas? How do you figure out which ideas
are worth pursuing?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
did their device do? Why did Lamarr and Antheil’s concepts get
acceptance later? Why is this useful in modern technology?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
other inventions did Lamarr develop? Why do the other inventions not
get talked about?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
a fictional account like this book, how can you tell what is
fictionalized and what happened? How complete of a story is this? How
true is this story to Lamarr’s life?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you read fictionalized accounts of history events or people? Why
not read “real” biographies or histories?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some
of the facts of Hedy Lamarr’s life are either changed or falsified.
How does this affect the reading of this book?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Only Woman in the Room</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as a biography?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
central ideas does the author present?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
they personal, sociological, global, political, economic, spiritual,
medical, or scientific?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/fiction-discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Groups General Fiction Guide</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<a href="https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/11460-only-woman-in-room-benedict?start=3"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLover’s
Question</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/the-only-woman-in-the-room/guide"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Groups</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<a href="https://arlenesbookclub.com/the-only-woman-in-the-room-book-club-discussion-questions/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Arlene’s
Book Group Question</u></span></span></span></a></p> <br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coquettish:
behaving in such a way as to suggest a playful sexual attraction;
flirtatious.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vapidity:
the state or quality of being vapid; flatness; dullness; insipidity</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vacuity:
lack of thought or intelligence; empty-headedness</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">lavender
marriage: a male–female mixed-orientation marriage, undertaken as
a marriage of convenience to conceal the socially stigmatised sexual
orientation of one or both partners.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hase:
Bunny</span></span></li></ul>
<div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sissy-refers
to a play</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ecstasy-probably
refers to Lamarr’s movie, but she co-wrote a book called</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ecstasy
and Me: My Life as a Woman</i></span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153666944-radiodynamics-the-wireless-control-of-torpedoes-and-other-mechanisms?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Radiodynamics:
The Wireless Control of Torpedoes and Other Mechanisms</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
by B. F. Miessner</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: My lids fluttered open, but the floodlights blinded me for a
moment</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I had always been alone under my mask, the only woman in the room.</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://www.authormariebenedict.com/the-only-woman-in-the-room.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Terrell"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Hedy
Lamarr</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Only-Woman-Room-Novel/dp/1492666866"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marie-Benedict/author/B01EX8MYO4?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-only-woman-in-the-room-marie-benedict/1128189920"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39971465"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14815127.Marie_Benedict"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">New
York Times </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/books/review/marie-benedict-only-woman-in-the-room-best-seller.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/11460-only-woman-in-room-benedict?start=3"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lit
Lovers</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marie-benedict/the-only-woman-in-the-room-benedict/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Kirkus
Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/the-only-woman-in-the-room/guide"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Groups</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://arlenesbookclub.com/the-only-woman-in-the-room-book-club-discussion-questions/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Arlene’s
Book Group Question</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkPnG9SFafM"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>YouTube</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Books
from the Bed </span></span><a href="https://bookthoughtsfrombed.com/2021/06/08/book-review-the-only-woman-in-the-room-by-marie-benedict/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Blog</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">US
Patent </span></span><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US2292387"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>2,292,387</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2019/april/naval-warfare-and-most-beautiful-woman-world"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>US
Naval Institute</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
- good explanation of the invention and who Hedy Lamarr was and the
reasons for rejection. </span></span>
</li><li>
<a href="https://www.military.com/history/hedy-lamarrs-invention-changed-communications-heres-why-navy-rejected-it-during-wwii.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Military.com</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
- another biography. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">PBS
2018 Documentary- </span></span><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/bombshell-hedy-lamarr-story-documentary/9906/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Bombshell:
The Hedy Lamarr Story</u></i></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-78712966963873231102024-01-23T21:13:00.000-08:002024-03-01T11:35:53.376-08:00Brave the Wild River<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhScaBoBinLfe-Z3nd1yPctrcMw-l-NSe_JvlxGzwa4wgooiNBF5Mmuuksvwqo8QDAAZO6fZP791L4bMVW2C8lftQmVpYVF_dGDdZKzaJcQ4w1CPRZPXtpLNutX5Frd4MaGBYPJmwrKtlX0iIbhw7IEFASSbny0peK42cnd9oECfAnUxAjvs9-tu571Y_Y/s500/9780393868234.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="335" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhScaBoBinLfe-Z3nd1yPctrcMw-l-NSe_JvlxGzwa4wgooiNBF5Mmuuksvwqo8QDAAZO6fZP791L4bMVW2C8lftQmVpYVF_dGDdZKzaJcQ4w1CPRZPXtpLNutX5Frd4MaGBYPJmwrKtlX0iIbhw7IEFASSbny0peK42cnd9oECfAnUxAjvs9-tu571Y_Y/s320/9780393868234.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><p></p><div><b>Book: Brave the Wild River</b><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#BookReferences">Book References</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/brave-wild-river.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c3ed330c-7fff-a35f-bc57-73857cd13d89" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Melissa Sevigny</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: ePub on Libby from the Mountain View Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9780393868234 (ISBN10: 0393868230)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: January 12, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: January 19, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">304 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: History, Biography, Outdoors, OSHER</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3½ out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">History: 4 out of 5</span></p><br />
<br />
<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clover
and Jotter are botanists, and female. Their claim to fame is that
they are the first women to go down the length of the Colorado River
successfully. Most of the book concentrates the the trip down the
Colorado with Nevills and his crew. There are the accounts of going
through rapids, how the women were treated and their tasks, as well
as the botanizing they did.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
addition there is background on people and places. A good portion of
the book also talks about how the press treated this expedition. The
last of the book talks about the status of the Colorado.</span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elzada_Clover"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Elzada
Clover</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-lead
female botanist. Born 1896 in Nebraska-was 42 when she went down the
river. Family moved to Texas. Was a teacher and principal. Spoke
Spanish. Got her Phd in Botany from the University of Michigan. Not
ladylike. Adventuresome. </span></span>
</li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Jotter"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lois
Jotter</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-female
botanist, Born in Weaverville in 1914 to a German Mennonite family.
Her father was a forester. Jotter was expected to love science. Moved
to Wisconsin when she was seven. Then Michigan. From early age
wanted to become a botanist. Got her Masters in 1936 from University
of Michigan. Working on Phd. More interested in lab work than being
in the field. She had attended the </span></span><a href="https://yosemite.org/an-enduring-legacy-the-yosemite-field-school/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Yosemite
Field School</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bessie
Hyde-female who died trying to go down the Colorado in 1928</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Harris_Bartlett"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Harley
H Bartlett</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-head
of botany at University of Michigan.</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Nevills"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Norman
Nevills</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-family
owned the lodge at Medicine Hat. Riverman. Lead on trip down the
Colorado </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doris
Nevills-wife of Norman. Ran the Medicine Hat Lodge</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carol
Davidson-assistant to Clover on an early Utah trip</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eugene
Atkinson-25 years old in 1938. Zoologist. Went on the first half of
the trip.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Buzz
Holmstrom-veteran river person. Ran the Colorado in 1937 and again in
the Fall of 1938. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">LaPhene
Don Harris-one of the oarsmen. 27 years old and with the USGS, but
was being transferred to Salt Lake City. Left the expedition halfway
through as he needed to get to his job.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bill
Gibson-crewmember. Architect and photographer. He would be the one
who made the movies. Also he was expected to be an oarsman. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eugene
Clyde LaRue-engineer who explored the area to see about the
feasibility of building dams.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loren
Bell-recruited to go on the next stage of river</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dell
Reed-42 year old prospector</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miner
R Tillotson-superintendent of Grand Canyon NP</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Claude
Birdseye-colonel who led a 1927 expedition to map the Colorado for
the USGS. LaRue was the engineer.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">George
Melendez Wright-park biologist who argued to let things go and do not
disturb. Also to study and have a baseline</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emery
Kolb-photographer, explorer at Grand Canyon. Nevills takes him on the
rest of the journey</span></span></li></ul>
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<br />
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Places
- I have put together a </u></span></span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-mIIFBwc1I6gtGuYF-jVt_IMGe6nbR_8/view?usp=drive_link"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Google
Earth file </u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>of
the places and route talked about in the book.</u></span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cataract
Canyon-41 miles long and 62 rapids, almost all continuous.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mexican
Hat</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Green
River</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Colorado
River</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mile-Long
Rapid in Cataract Canyon</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gypsum
Creek Rapid (or possibly Gypsum Canyon Rapid)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clearwater
Canyon</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dark
Canyon Rapid</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dirty
Devil River</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Glen
Canyon</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ticaboo
Creek</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">San
Juan River</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rainbow
Bridge National Monument</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lee’s
Ferry</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Badger
Creek Rapid</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Soap
Creek</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stanton’s
Cave</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vasey’s
Paradise-fresh water spring. Lots of plant life. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">President
Harding Rapid</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Little
Colorado River-sacred place for several of the Native American
nations</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tanner
Rapid</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hance
Rapid.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Upper
Granite Gorge</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sockdolager
Rapids</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grapevine
Rapids</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kaibab
Bridge</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bright
Angel Creek</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Granite
Falls-I think this is Granite Rapids.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hermit
Rapid</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Serpentine
Rapid</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elves
Chasm</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Havasu
River</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lava
Falls</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Separation
Rapid</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lake
Mead</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emery
Falls-Grand Wash Cliffs-Now called Columbine Falls <br /></span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:</b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
Osher </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
January 11, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book:</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: OSHER Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it? An account of running the Colorado.</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Towards
the last of the book, Sevigny notes that both Clover and Jotter
wanted to be know as botanists rather than the first women to boat
the length of the Colorado successfully. This left me wondering, why
did Sevigny write this book? Would it be to talk about a couple
botanists? If it were men, would she write this book?What would
Clover and Jotter have thought of this?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Prologue:
Stranded</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sevigny
sets the tone of the book in this chapter. The party of six, two of
them female botanists, have had a rough stretch where one of the
three boats had carried two of the party well past the established
stopping point. And now one of them, Lois Jotter, was wondering if
she should have really been along on this trip. No other botanists
had traveled down the Colorado and no females had successfully made
the journey-one had died.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elzada
Clover and Lois Jotter wanted to survey and bring back plant life
from the Colorado. Clover had arranged this trip. Now in June 1938 it
was happening.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>On
the Borders of Precipices</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gives
background on Clover and Jotter. The author notes that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>For
much of the preceding century, botany had been a suitable hobby for
ladies.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Much of it was field work, but this was shifting towards labs as
well. Field work was being done by amateur ladies. The lab work more
by men.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clover
was a school principal in Texas. The author notes that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>As
the principal of South Mission School, Clover must have been
complicit in a racist program of instruction that sought to
“Americanize” children of Mexican descent and offer coursework
“fitted to their needs,” which differed from the education white
students received.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about Asa Gray. Gray asked the question: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
were species of plants distributed over the Earth the way they were?
Did they spread to new locations or stay forever fixed in place? What
exactly was a species, anyway?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
These would influence Clover’s training. </span></span>
</p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gertrude_Britton"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Elizabeth
Gertrude Knight Britton</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-a
name I was not familiar with.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clover
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>loved
to teach: a natural outlet for her gift of storytelling.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">August
1937-Clover went to Medicine Hat to look for plants in Utah. Went
with Davidson. It was during this trip where she met Norman Nevills.
They roughed out a trip Clover was envisioning to go do on the
Colorado and collect botanical specimens.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Have
You Seen That River?</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clover
and Nevills had a correspondence going. Was this trip on for 1938?
Yes. Clover needed to get two scientists. Nevills had two river
people lined up.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sevigny
talks about Continental Drift. It was a relatively new theory.
Geologists were not on board yet. But it had gained cachet with
botanists as it explained how come there were similar plants
throughout the planet.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sevigny
also talked about conservation and preservation vs ecology. The idea
behind conservation/preservation was either romantic of being in love
with trees or preservation to look out for the future so that the
trees were still there for use. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>conservation
movement arose an ideology known as preservation, which spoke of
wilderness in romantic terms. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
See the books by Pinchot:</span></span><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-training-of-forester.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
</u></span></span></span></a><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-training-of-forester.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>The
Training of a Forester</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and </span></span><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-fight-for-conservation.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>The
Fight for Conservation</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Jotter’s father was like other foresters-looking at conservation
as a means to protect the future. But </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he
must have harbored a secret love of the sequoia, a love not satisfied
solely by its utility.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
rallied supporters with nationalistic language, saying that the
solemn groves of Yosemite Valley.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
By groves, I am thinking she means Sequoia, not the oaks, maples, and
pines. What Sequoia groves are there in Yosemite Valley? The only
three groves I know about there are Mariposa, Tuolumne and
Merced-none are in the Valley. I believe there are a couple Sequoias
at the Valley cemetery, but they were planted and nobody considers
them groves. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bartlett
was initially reluctant to approve the expedition, but then as Clover
presented more of what she was going to do, he came to the conclusion
that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
wouldn’t hesitate to do it myself, so why refuse my approval for
her?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This was not University support, but his own approval. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Colorado River’s canyons had been mapped by surveyors and river
runners, but never by a botanist.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nevills
thought more that this would be a commercial venture than as an
expedition. His thought is that he wanted to turn going down the
Colorado as a money making venture with tourists. So not having it be
an University venture fit into those plans.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
were a lot of people concerned about women going into the wild. This
was not done. This does not explain all the women who went West
during the previous century.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Atkinson
was chosen. For the other scientist slot, Clover was a bit slow on
deciding. After considering, she asked Jotter to go on the trip.
Clover was reluctant as it was one thing to risk her life, but she
was asking someone else to risk there. Jotter had wilderness
experience. She had attended the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Yosemite
Field School</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
where rangers were trained. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is something I am not sure about. Sevigny has that the people who
came to the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Yosemite
Field School</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
would build fires on top of Glacier Point and push the embers off.
She says that the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Park
Service decided the display was an embarrassment.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I have always heard that it was Camp Curry staff along with Park
Rangers who would push this over the edge. T</span></span><a href="https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-january-25-1968-last-firefall-yosemite-tradition-flames-out/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>hat
is was stopped because it was not consistent with the Park’s
mission</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
She does cite a couple articles. I looked at </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span></span><a href="http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/yosemite_nature_notes/13/13-6.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>M.
E. Beatty, “A History of Firefall,” Yosemite Nature Notes 13, no.
6 (June 1934), 41–43</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and did not find reference to either the Yosemite Field School doing
this or the part was embarrassed. Also</span></span><a href="https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED616130.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
</u></span></span></span></a><a href="https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED616130.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Education
News, School Life 22, no 7, March 1937: 223</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
was in Sevigny’s notes. This is only a reference to openings at the
Yosemite Field School.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Buzz
Holstrom ran the river in 1937. In an article he says that a woman
has no place on the river.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sevigny
gives a brief history of trips down the Colorado.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is the back and forth between Jotter and her family which was
generally supportive, but wanted to make sure she was not getting
into something which she shouldn’t. Her response was that she would
be bringing back as much </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>interesting
material as I can, as otherwise, I would not consider going just for
the experience,”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Jotter’s father told her this: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>You’ll
come back changed. The river will change you.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nevills
was looking for one of the scientists to also assist in the boating.
Clover said they did not have that kind of experience.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
the news got out, there was a lot of concern about women going down
the Colorado.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
7, 1938- loaded up gear to take to Utah.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Mighty Poor Place for Women</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describes
the trip to Utah. Chicago, Des Mones, Omaha-Each city a day trip away
from the previous. Crossed the Continental Divide. Sevigny stopped
giving town by town places where they stopped. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talked
about Powell’s original trip down the Colorado. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about that Nevills was making each boat by hand, a unique design.
Talks about how he met his wife and how on their honeymoon they went
down the San Juan River. Because of this, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
realized he needed to work with the river instead.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He had kept trying to power through the river. Nevills’ boats were
built for maneuverability rather than to utilize muscle. He also made
it so the person with the oars was facing the direction of travel
rather than on relying on someone else to watch. Nevills called this
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>facing
the danger.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
12, 1938-Reached Green River, UT. Clover collected plants here to see
if plants extended across basins. In this case, the Green River. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boats
were labeled Nevills Expedition. The boats were named </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wen,
Botany and Mexican Hat.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This shocked Clover intro realizing they were passengers not the ones
who were driving the voyage. Sevigny went through some of the luggage
taken and the supplies. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
19, 1938-Drove to the Green River and met the last of the crew, Bill
Gibson. Drove to Green River to start. The start of summer and the
rivers were high with snow melt.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
20, 1938-Started their trip down the Green River.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>There
Goes the Mexican Hat!</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since
the women were not working the oars, they did the camp stuff, like
cook and start the fire. They also went through and collected plants
when they could. So far the trip had been pretty calm. Nevills said
that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.
“I feel certain that none of them realize just what real bad water
is like.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
They had spent four days on the Green River.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
24, 1938-They meet up with the Colorado and see why it is called that
as the water is red. They met their first rapid. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>after
their tranquil days on the Green. “The character of the river
changed,” Jotter wrote in her journal, “and slowly we realized
the force of the Colorado.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
they came to Cataract Canyon. This is where the Prologue started us.
Also they found an inscription from Wesley Powell-but it was from a
steamship called that. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Description
of Clover’s thoughts and observations concerning plant life. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Though
Clover was unfamiliar with </i></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Tansley"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Tansley</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>’s
concept of an ecosystem, she was nevertheless doing the work Tansley
thought so important.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mexican
Hat</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
had slipped away and went down the first rapid. Harris and Jotter
chased after it in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wen</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
They caught up to it 6 or 7 rapids downstream. Harris went back
upstream to let them know the status, leaving Jotter to tend to the
boats. She stayed there overnight alone. It was an uncomfortable
night for all. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
river’s constant roar sounded full of fury. Nevills comforted
himself with the thought: he had prepared for this. He was ready.
There was nothing to do but carry on.</i></span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">For a description of running this with modern day equipment, see the <a href="https://www.oars.com/blog/near-calamity-in-cataract-canyon-high-water/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OARS site</a>.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> <br /></i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Beautiful Pea-Green Boat</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
25, 1938-They all reunite. It had hit them differently, some felt
shell-shocked others felt like they could conquer the River. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the afternoon, they approached Mile-Long Rapid. Nevills demanded that
they not run the rapid. He would not be swayed by what he called
“incompetent opinions.” That seems harsh but wise. They stayed
above it that night to go down it in the morning. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
26, 1938-After working their way down the River and getting only 100’
further, Nevills reconsidered. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sevigny
talked about a survey team which met with a disaster on Mile-Long
Rapid. They were not prepared to take the rapids and boats splintered
and sank. Stanton was the engineer who had command of the expedition.
His name is on several places.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nevills
brought each boat down the rapids individually. Most of the people
walked it. After this, they stopped for the night.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
27-28, 1938 - Days blurred. Nevills did not think highly of the
men-each had their own weakness. He thought the women were standing
up well. I wonder if this is because of expectations. He was not
expecting much from the women and they did better than he thought,
while the men were the opposite. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
they</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Clover
and Jotter]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
came to the Colorado to prove their courage, it was only to
themselves.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
found plenty of tumbleweed. Sevigny talks about how tumbleweeds
spread. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
thrived on disturbance, and there was plenty of that in canyon
country.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Only
one topic consumed her</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Clover]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
more</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[than
plants]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.
That was running the rapids.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
29, 1938-Only made it about 15 miles. The waters are receding. They
get to Gypsum Canyon (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Gypsum
Creek Rapid)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
about 1pm. They get caught up and the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Botany</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
flips up and causes both Atkinson and Gibson to be flung from the
boat. They were able to save the boat. Clover had the nursery rhyme
about the </span></span><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43188/the-owl-and-the-pussy-cat"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Owl
and Pussycat</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
who sailed the seas in a pea-green boat. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are several features named which have multiple locations, some
official and some not. Here is one which I have been wondering about.
She calls this </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Gypsum
Creek Rapid.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But Gypsum Creek and the rapid is on the San Juan River, many miles
away. Seems like the current popular name is Gypsum Canyon Rapid.
[Note to Gary: see if you can get an older, pre-dam map of the area.
I did. On the 1923 maps, there is only the words Cataract Canyon. On
the 1953 map I see Gypsum Canyon also there are rapids noted at the
mount of the canyon]</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
30, 1938. They had spent the night above </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Clearwater
Canyon.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Nevills was second guessing brining this bunch on the trip as they
nearly avoided disaster.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Delayed</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
the start of the chapter, Sevigny talks about some of the plant life
Clover finds. One was the Indian Paintbrush. She says:
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>innocent-looking
Indian paintbrush which sent sneaky root tendrils underground to
steal from its neighbors. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally
found a</span></span><a href="https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=cain13"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
reference</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
which noted that Indian Paintbrush lives off of other plants..</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
30, 1938-Lay over day to recover from Gypsum Canyon Rapids. Talked
about Clyde Eddy’s book on the River. Turns out that this
expedition was running late. They expected to make Lee’s Ferry by
July 4th. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
1, 1938-</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dark
Canyon Rapid.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Nothing is said about it. Just an ominous name. They did spot names
they recognized on rocks. Camped at </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dirty
Devil River.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Harris is thinking about bailing at Lees Ferry so he can be at his
job by July 28th-concerned about the progress the group were making.
They were about to enter Glen Canyon.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
2-4, 1938-Talked about Glen Canyon being more leisurely than what
they had encountered. Also Hite-I do not think this is related to
the prospector at Hite Cove in California. Even though both were
miners. They stopped at Hite and were greeted by a couple who were
trying to make a go of it. Treated well. Floating along.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jotter,
Harris, Atkinson, and Gibson were discontent. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
5, 1938-Passed the mouth of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>San
Juan River.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
6, 1938-Walked up to </span></span><a href="https://www.nps.gov/rabr/index.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Rainbow
Bridge National Monument</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Describes their walking the six miles to the bridge and them looking
around. They seemed to be loose about the customs of the place as
well as raiding a storage place for food. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile
the world was wondering where they were. How come they were late?
Were they still alive? </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
7, 1938-Search planes had been sent out. They made contact with the
expedition. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Hell,
Yes! What River?</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
8-12, 1938 - They made it to Lee’s Ferry. Spent the time here
recruiting and resting. Harris was leaving. Atkinson was on the fence
and Nevils pushed him off. Nevills went to Medicine Hat-Clover went
with him.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about how Lee’s Ferry is the dividing line on how the water is
split among states. LaRue</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
knew the Colorado River Basin had experienced times of deep
drought—droughts that lasted decades or centuries, the kind of
drought that shriveled sagebrush and gave the cacti sunburn.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bell
is recruited to go on the next stage of the river. Also Reed</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Newspapers
were having a field day with both accurate and inaccurate stories.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Came
back through Grand Canyon and met Tillosten. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jotter
met Holmstrom and got along well.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Paradise</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most
of the chapters on when they were running the River has to do with
either: running the rapids and how dangerous they were; plants which
was being collected; descriptions</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of
places or events; and camp life.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
13, 1938 - They now were entering the Grand Canyon.. They also had
two others along for a day’s ride. They met their first rapid at
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Badger
Creek Rapid. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Without Atkinson, there seemed to be better relationships. One bad
apple? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Soap
Creek</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
was the next rapid.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about the Birdseye expedition to lay the groundwork for damming the
Colorado. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
14, 1938 - </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Soap
Creek </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">was
the next rapids. This was a dangerous rapid where people had died. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about the stories of the Grand Canyons and the mystery of it. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
15, 1938 - Talks about after they camped and gathered samples. Clover
was finding the Canyon not oppressive, but a nameless beauty.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
16, 1938 - They passed </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Stanton’s
Cave</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
They did not stop here, but a short distance was </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Vasey’s
Paradise.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Talks about a biologist named Merriam. Clover thought that his work
was OK as a generalization, but when it came to particulars, there
were other factors. They only had time for an hour to do this. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
next set of rapids was </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>President
Harding Rapid.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
17, 1938-Ran 25 miles. Went past the confluence with the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Little
Colorado River.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
They hit </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Tanner
Rapid</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
before camping.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Most Unusual and Hazardous Means</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
18-20, 1938 - Crowd gathers on the Rim to see the boats come in. They
navigated </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hance
Rapid.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Then entered Upper Granite Gorge. Series of rapids which you could
not go around. The most notorious was Grapevine. All made it
through, but one had a tougher time than the others.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
landed at Bright Angel Creek. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Compared
to the isolation of the preceding weeks, this place seemed crowded;</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is where Phantom Ranch is.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about the background of the area and the intentional introduction of
non-native animals. Also about Phantom Ranch. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wright’s
document:</span></span><a href="https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/fauna1/fauna.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
</u></span></span></span></a><a href="https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/fauna1/fauna.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Fauna
No. 1,</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>”
set forth a series of blunt recommendations.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
climbed out to the south rim-high heat. Describes the time they spent
on top of the rim, including an interview with NBC Radio. They stayed
an extra day. Also talks about the Great Deer Hunt as an example of
why Nature is best left to itself to take care of issues. Wright got
into this. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wright
may have been the first person within the Park Service to clearly
articulate the idea that “unimpaired” meant keeping healthy,
functioning ecosystems intact.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nevills
asks Kolb if he would like to accompany them the rest of the way.
Yes.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
next day they went back down to the boats.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Hundred Personalities</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">July
21?-, 1938 More rapids run. Women continue to be asked to walk the
rapids instead of running them. Paused before running the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hermit
Rapid.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Needed to evaluate how to attack it. He decided not to run it, but
let the boats be lined up. Next came </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Serpentine
Rapid.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Bell was injured on it and Reed took over the oaring duties.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stopped
at Elves Chasm to take a look at. Clover collected some samples of
algae. But Nevills later on mistakenly tossed them. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boating
the Colorado had become routine, even though there was plenty of
excitement. I understand this as hiking the JMT with all of its
beauty tends to become Sleep, Eat, Hike and do that again the next
day.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stopped
at Havasu River four days after returning to the river. Stopped to
swim and collect plants. Then onward they floated. Description of a
rainstorm. Then how the River was changing. At Lava Falls, more plant
life. The rapids here were too much so they lined the boats. They
were now a day or two away from Lake Mead. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kolb
told Clover the story of the Hydes who died around this area. Clover
wrote </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It’s
a great river with a hundred personalities,” she wrote, “but it
is not kind. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
As the trip was coming to an end, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>She
didn’t want to leave the river.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
They came to the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Separation
Rapid.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
That night they camped-something was missing. No roaring of the
river. They had reached Lake Mead</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
names a place as Granite Falls. But I think it is Granite Rapids.
Looks like at one time it was named Granite Falls. But well before
this expedition, </span></span><a href="https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/file/060496d5-68ad-5988-8c3b-9f9ebb3b4eaa/view"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>it
was changed</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
to Granite Rapids in 1930. Note: She uses </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hermit
Rapids</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
but it used to be known as Hermit Falls. It got changed at the same
time as Granite Falls did. So why use one or the other?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lonely
for the River</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without
the force of the river, rowing across Lake Mead became a slog. Each
took turns rowing. After a day and a half of rowing, they heard a
motor boat. Holmstrom had come out and was giving them a tow. He got
them to Columbine Falls. Then a Dept of Interior boat came and towed
them the rest of the way in. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
stayed in Boulder City. Strange, the author does not give a date.
They had left Green River 43 days before. So that would put it as
August 3, 1938. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>All
that time, their lives had been hitched to the river’s rhythms.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clover
stayed in Boulder City for a week. Nevills also stayed around because
his wife ended up in a hospital. Rest of them split up shortly after
arriving. Clover spent time by the pier-</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>She
went down to the pier just to feel the water rising and falling
beneath the boats. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is very common among those who do something epic. They now
wonder what else is left and pine to get back on the trail. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
Nevills wife got out of the hospital, they went back with Clover,
going to return to get her vehicle. Homstrom was going to go down the
Colorado. Clover had spent time organizing her plant pressings.
Nevills invited her for a couple week trip down the San Juan. Then
she went to Texas for more botanizing. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back
in Michigan, both Clover and Jotter were somewhat celebrities. There
were missing plants which detracted from there work and the samples
were not good quality-hard to keep them dry river-running. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
was a bad thought, that they would be remembered (if they were
remembered at all) because they were women, not botanists. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
isn’t that why this book is written? If she was a male botanist,
would the author had taken up her pen to write this account?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
partner of Holmstrom found the missing plants and they were sent to
them. They published papers and worked on their samples. Clover went
back and did hikes in the area, sampling the plants. They published
their complete list in the </span></span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2421241"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>American
Midland Naturalist</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emery
Falls is now called Columbine Falls. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Heaven
As I Go Along</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>THE
OLD RIVER RUINS PEOPLE FOR SETTLING down doesn’t it?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I do not know about rivers, but when you come to a trail and been on
it for awhile, it is hard to get it out of your system. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clover
found that most people thought more of the accomplishment of a woman
who ran the river than the botanist who studied it. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>She
wasn’t interested in river running merely for sport: she wanted to
botanize.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nevills
gave Harris the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mexican
Hat</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
which was what was agreed to. Harris ran the Colorado with it.
Nevills started taking paying customers down and made a living doing
that. He invited Clover and Jotter to accompany him. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Both
women declined, busy with teaching and perhaps (though they never
said so) unwilling to go with Nevills again.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Seems more like speculation than fact.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Women
running the Colorado now became regular. Almost all of Nevills trips
included at least one woman.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clover
was reported to have more show and tell to boys and girls, rather
than as a full-fledged botanist wanting to study plants. This
infuriated her.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nevills
and his wife died in a plane crash. But Nevills company still exists
under the name </span></span><a href="https://canyoneers.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Canyoneers.</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
They even have trips with botanists.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clover
continued to collect specimens, even returning to the Grand Canyon.
Some of hers and Jotter ended up at the </span></span><a href="https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/botany"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>United
States National Herbarium.</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
If you go to their site, you can search by either Jotter or Clover
and see the specimens in the collection</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jotter
married a scientist at Cornell by the name of Victor Cutler. She got
her Phd and had a child. Jotter </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
preferred to see new places and new plants on every trip.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She did not run the river again.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Glen
Canyon Dam started operation in 1963. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clover
retired in 1967.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Legendary</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Colorado was changing. Dams changed the river. More people were
running it. Below dams, the flow of the water was controlled. Instead
of torrents and dryness, the water would flow when the need for
electricity was needed. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jotter
was invited to go down the river to see how the gorge had changed.
She accepted it to be part of the “Old TimersTrip.” Other
scientists who had run it before the dams were invited to see if they
could identify the changes. The trip was very luxurious compared to
her trip. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
reactions were mixed. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>These
kinds of conversations revealed why Clover and Jotter’s plant list
mattered: as a hedge against the human tendency to forget how the
world used to look.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Things like the sandbars were disappearing. Vegetation was different.
But there was also a very biodiverse system which had grown up in
its place. So trying to simulate the previous river would remove
that. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“These
people remind us,” Schmidt told an interviewer during the trip,
“that the fundamental experience of this place is a place where you
can have high adventure and really rich personal experiences.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>river’s
ebb and flow was predictable. In fact, the more she </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Jotter]
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>thought
about it, the more she realized that nothing was the same—nothing
but the canyon walls, the Kaibab, Coconino, and sheer Redwall rising
above the river in beige, rose, and mauve, changing in color with the
time of day and season yet indifferent to them</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
does “wild” mean, anyway?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
wild place isn’t one unchanged by humans. It’s a place that
changes us. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jotter
understood that the 1938 trip had changed it.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
1996 the Glen Canyon flood gates were opened to simulate a weeks
worth of full river run. The hope was to build back up the sandbars
and some of the other natural occurrences. Starting in 2000 drought
hit. Reservoir water lines dropped till many of the natural features
were exposed. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sevigny
says It</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>’s
a time to rethink the old laws and policies that govern the Colorado
River, and to imagine new kinds of futures in which human desires
don’t subsume a river’s needs. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Followed by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>no
landscape is unchanged by people, nor any person unchanged by the
land.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jotter
died in 2013.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Epilogue:
A Woman's Place.</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sevigny
made a trip with a group to root out invasive species. She brought
along Jotter/Holmstom’s match case and a guide based upon their
observations. Earlier explorers</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
saw the river for what it could be, harnessed for human use. Clover
and Jotter saw it as it was, a living system made up of flower, leaf,
and thorn, lovely in its fierceness, worthy of study for its own
sake.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">About
a third of the guides are women. Sevigny talks about sexism in the
sciences and the outdoors.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
some cases, I have reimagined the exact wording from situations
recalled by those involved.</i></span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
I look at a history or biography there are two things which I look
at. First is the subject matter-is this something which I am
interested in and how well is it written. The second is how well do I
trust the narrative being presented. Sevigny is a science writer from
Arizona. So the Colorado River is her backyard and she knows the area
and knows how to describe both the features and the science behind
the two women botanists who went down the Colorado River when it was
considerably wilder.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's
tackle the first part: Is it interesting? Is it well written? I enjoy
good outdoor stories, even if I am not much of a water travel guy.
Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter were the first females to travel down
the Colorado. They went as botanists with a crew of four men. There
was some disagreement of perspective-was this an expedition to study
the plant life along the Colorado or a paid commercial venture with
two botanists along. From how Sevigny presents it, it ends up being
the latter.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being
the first of anything, there is the tension of should you do it? Is
it feasible? Is it noteworthy? In this regard, Sevigny presents a
good story, showing the sexist attitudes of that time. The river
people felt that the River was too demanding and the newspapers were
playing up this tension. It would have been good for Sevigny to note
if women were going down other wild rivers and running rapids
elsewhere.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
far as the botany aspect, in almost all of the chapters Sevigny lists
a sampling of the plant life found. She talks a bit of the travails
of being a woman botanist. She notes that there were species they
found which were new to science.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
outdoors books, there tends to be a rhythm. In this one it goes
something like sleep, eat, go down the river, there is a wild
rapid-how do we run it? And botanize. The trick to writing a good
outdoors book is to get the reader into the rhythm of the adventure
which is mostly placid. That way the excitement of running a rapid
becomes a counterpoint to the daily grind of rowing or the blandness
of camp food. Sevigny more matches the constant thunder of the
Colorado than the rhythms of outdoor life.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sevignys
does invoke the history of place and events. She talks about what
happened at various rapids, caves and springs along the way. I enjoy
hearing about these things. There are times it seems like these are
fillers, but for the most part, I liked having them in there.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
second thing which I look at in a historical account is accuracy.
There are some small nit-picking things, such as the names of places.
Some of them she uses the older names (Granite Falls instead of
Granite Rapids) and then turns around to use a new name of a rapid
right beside the other. The item which really annoyed me was a
paragraph on Jotter’s time in Yosemite. From how Sevigny portrays
the Glacier Point Fire Fall, it was the Yosemite Field School which
started it and the Park Service was embarrassed over it-her word. The
Fire Fall was started well before Yosemite was a Park. And it ended
in 1968 when the Park Service decided it no longer was congruent with
its mission. Her paragraph here made me wonder what else did Sevigny
have not quite right?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sevigny
notes that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
they</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
[Clover and Jotter]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
would be remembered (if they were remembered at all) because they
were women, not botanists.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This gets to the question, why read this book? First, it is an
interesting book about running the Colorado and secondly because it
was the first successful time down the length of the Colorado by
women. As much botany as Sevigny throws into the book, it was not the
type of references which would make me interested. The bottom line is
that it is not a bad read.</span></span></p>
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<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before
the trip, Jotter says </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>interesting
material as I can, as otherwise, I would not consider going just for
the experience.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Is a trip done for the experience wasted? When you go on a trip what
do you look for? What makes it successful? Does it need to be
meaningful?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
Nevills gained experience with the river, he realized that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
realized he needed to work with the river instead </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[of
fighting it]. What led him to realize that? What difference did it
make in how he handled or constructed a boat? Where have you come to
that conclusion in your endeavors?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
tackling a rapid, Nevills evaluated it for how well they could run
it. While others wanted to challenge some of the rapids, Nevills said
that he would not be swayed by “incompetent opinions.” Did this
seem harsh to you? Should leadership be a democracy? When should a
leader take a decision themselves and when should it be put out to
others?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jotter’s
father noted that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>You’ll
come back changed. The river will change you.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Have you had experience where doing something challenging outdoors
has left a mark on your life? Talk about it. Why does things like
that change a person? Clover said that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>THE
OLD RIVER RUINS PEOPLE FOR SETTLING down doesn’t it?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How was her life unsettled by the River?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
traveling slow, there tends to be a rhythm. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>their
lives had been hitched to the river’s rhythms. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the rhythm the expedition had fallen into. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
Clover and Jotter’s trip important scientifically? Why? When Jotter
went on the Old Timers Trip, there was a statement made: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>These
kinds of conversations revealed why Clover and Jotter’s plant list
mattered: as a hedge against the human tendency to forget how the
world used to look.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What scientific inquiry is wasteful?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sevigny
raises the question: What</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
does “wild” mean?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How do you answer that?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Discuss
her statement of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
wild place isn’t one unchanged by humans. It’s a place that
changes us. </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sevigny
notes that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
they</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
[Clover and Jotter]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
would be remembered (if they were remembered at all) because they
were women, not botanists.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Why do you think Sevigny wrote this book? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are some remarks Sevigny makes about Yosemite: Sequoia(?) groves in
Yosemite Valley and Fire falls being done by the Yosemite Field
School. While neither is said implicitly, they are implied. How do
you respond when an author misleads the reader? She also says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
some cases, I have reimagined the exact wording from situations
recalled by those involved.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What parts of this book can you rely on being factual?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Brave
the Wild River</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as an adventure? Scientific journey?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
central ideas does the author present?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p> <br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taxonomy:
the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=599994442&sxsrf=ACQVn0-0DBzDvK7pPl7AGvhlCkPWGnHNpg:1705723682971&q=organisms&si=AKbGX_onJk-q0LQUYzV7-GRhpJ5DS9kPjWUxMZwVQybUYskT7Iz4VeKaXFiEMItEYDnEAxa6L1eKM4WMb-SntJDvR9lGqU7qhpzj9BrmIWqwcPDyT42gq3I%3D&expnd=1">
</a></span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=599994442&sxsrf=ACQVn0-0DBzDvK7pPl7AGvhlCkPWGnHNpg:1705723682971&q=organisms&si=AKbGX_onJk-q0LQUYzV7-GRhpJ5DS9kPjWUxMZwVQybUYskT7Iz4VeKaXFiEMItEYDnEAxa6L1eKM4WMb-SntJDvR9lGqU7qhpzj9BrmIWqwcPDyT42gq3I%3D&expnd=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>organisms</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">;<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=599994442&sxsrf=ACQVn0-0DBzDvK7pPl7AGvhlCkPWGnHNpg:1705723682971&q=systematics&si=AKbGX_q4mkMHy1Nmq4yITjHYVzep9waAPa_90Erh6tbaQPfMnXMeKSAr4mmQE4oglOPE1xQ0xylSkMVa_E9yxd5wgPPjSlDBs_M0IhmGwM9reL5TLCO6jqk%3D&expnd=1">
</a></span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=599994442&sxsrf=ACQVn0-0DBzDvK7pPl7AGvhlCkPWGnHNpg:1705723682971&q=systematics&si=AKbGX_q4mkMHy1Nmq4yITjHYVzep9waAPa_90Erh6tbaQPfMnXMeKSAr4mmQE4oglOPE1xQ0xylSkMVa_E9yxd5wgPPjSlDBs_M0IhmGwM9reL5TLCO6jqk%3D&expnd=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>systematics</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lachrymose:
tearful or given to weeping.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isohyet:
a line on a map connecting points having the same amount of rainfall
in a given period.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Geocarpy:
either the production of fruits underground, as in the arum lilies
(Stylochiton and Biarum), in which the flowers are already
subterranean, or the active burying of fruits by the mother plant, as
in the peanut (Arachis hypogaea)</span></span></li></ul>
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<div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Botany
for Beginners</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Almira Hart Lincoln</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Familiar
Lectures on Botany</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Lincoln Phelps</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Flora
of North America</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Elements
of Botany</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>On
the Origin of Species</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Charles Darwin</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Down
the World’s Most Dangerous River </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
Clyde Eddy</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Owl and the Pussy-Cat</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by EDWARD LEAR</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Silent
Spring</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Rachel Carson</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>River
and Desert Plants of the Grand Canyon</i></span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: THE NIGHT WAS FULL OF NOISES. THE DRIFTWOOD campfire snapped
and spluttered, casting a circle of light on the river-rippled sand.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: They go ahead and, like stars reflected on the river, show the
way.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
does “wild” mean, anyway? Chp Legendary</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
wild place isn’t one unchanged by humans. It’s a place that
changes us. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chp
Legendary</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prologue:
Stranded</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
the Borders of Precipices</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have
You Seen That River?</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Mighty Poor Place for Women</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
Goes the Mexican Hat!</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Beautiful Pea-Green Boat</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delayed</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hell,
Yes! What River?</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paradise</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Most Unusual and Hazardous Means</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Hundred Personalities</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lonely
for the River</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heaven
As I Go Along</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Legendary</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Epilogue:
A Woman's Place.</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<br />
<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393868234"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://melissasevigny.com/books/brave-the-wild-river/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Wild-River-Untold-Mapped/dp/0393868230"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Melissa-L.-Sevigny/author/B01HC7HN80?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62594253-brave-the-wild-river?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=o0HxLj9tNI&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14544036.Melissa_L_Sevigny"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Autho</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">r</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">New
York Times </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/books/review/brave-the-wild-river-melissa-sevigny.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moab
Sun News </span></span><a href="https://moabsunnews.com/2023/05/25/qa-with-melissa-sevigny/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>interview</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">AZ
Central </span></span><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2023/05/24/colorado-river-book-brave-the-wild-river-melissa-sevigny/70247708007/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Los
Angeles </span></span><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/territorial-taxonomy-on-melissa-l-sevignys-brave-the-wild-river/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review
of Books</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780393868234"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Publishers
Weekly</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kirkus
</span></span><a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/melissa-l-sevigny/brave-the-wild-river/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/grca-geology.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Grand
Canyon NPS</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="http://www.geo.umass.edu/gradstud/mahan/Mahan_GrandCanyon_research.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Geological
Map</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
of the Upper Granite Gorge</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clover movies from the Colorado River trip: <a href="https://bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/t/1_1uzrejy3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Movie 1</a> and <a href="https://bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/t/1_g90m45lz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Movie 2 </a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">University of Michigan <a href="https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/news-events/all-news/search-news/down-the-great-river.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3 minute movie</a> <br /></span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/grand-canyon-plants-botany-elzada-clover-lois-jotter"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Atlas
Obscura</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u> <br /></u></span></span></span></li></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-68557274260987583982024-01-22T20:34:00.000-08:002024-02-02T11:04:44.616-08:00The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5FUNv-vjlIygMmNwu0SidzmxcH5um8hItUYPT5SdPRsJzuUBynAn6QwqpgrGUwFo5k0UzGCweL7WN1rtgzR-WxmYF1iWLSmdLlB0SQ7dJI-GO5Q9xe9XGM28QD37M77zFatNCGdyTyd3XFGa-n5t_-AJ4HYUOr-PgehOtCReuzkJiskDOgqJ0iEvong0/s1500/81FS3wyevDL._SL1500_.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="994" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5FUNv-vjlIygMmNwu0SidzmxcH5um8hItUYPT5SdPRsJzuUBynAn6QwqpgrGUwFo5k0UzGCweL7WN1rtgzR-WxmYF1iWLSmdLlB0SQ7dJI-GO5Q9xe9XGM28QD37M77zFatNCGdyTyd3XFGa-n5t_-AJ4HYUOr-PgehOtCReuzkJiskDOgqJ0iEvong0/s320/81FS3wyevDL._SL1500_.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br /><b>Book: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store</b><p></p><div>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-b39eed27-7fff-fe18-33d9-d626b2376fb0" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: James McBride</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: Kindle</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Riverhead Books</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9780593422946 (ISBN10: 0593422945)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: January 14, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: January 22, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">380 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Fiction, OSHER</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: Medium</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3½ out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religion: Christianity, Jewish</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religious Quality: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Christianity-Teaching Quality: None</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Tells a good story: 4 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Character development: 4 out of 5</span></p><br />
<br />
<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whose
skeleton was found in the well? That is the beginning and ending of
this story. In between it talks about a community found on Chicken
Hill in the town of Pottstown. While this used to be a Jewish
enclave, it was now a predominantly Black community with some Jewish
folks still on the Hill. </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Jewish couple own a money losing store which has become a community
focal point. They also own theaters which host both Jewish and Black
music. A deaf and dumb Black boy comes into their lives through one
of the husband’s workers. The State has an interest in putting the
boy into a sanitarium. </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
wife is attacked, suffers a stroke and dies and the Black boy is
taken away. From here the story gets convoluted until the boy is
rescued and the story of the skeleton is revealed.</span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
Ludlow-Dance hall owner. Husband of Chona. Romanian Jew</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chona-owns
and runs the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Name means “God
gives grace.”</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi-dancer,
friend of Moshe and migrant. Hasidic devout Jew. Tries hand at being
a baker. Leaves Pottstown and ends up in Europe. Then back in
Pottstown.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nate
Timblin-maintenance man and friend for Moshe. Recognized leader on
Chicken Hill</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Addie
Timblin-Nate’s wife. Worked with Chona in the store.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dodo-deaf
and dumb boy of 12. When he was young, a stove exploded. His mother
died shortly afterwards. Nate’s nephew.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Earl
Roberts-Doc Roberts. racist, from an old Pottstown family. Doctor
which Blacks would not see. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Son
of Man-Lowgod who worked in a sanitarium. Massive black man</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Issac-Moshe’s
rich cousin</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Karl
Feldman-new rabbi for the Chicken Hill shul</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rusty-a
Black fix it man</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rev
Ed Spriggs-Black minister for Chicken Hill. Nicknamed Snoops</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatty
Davis-runs a jook joint. Also junk collector. All around go to
person. Brother to Bernice</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Irv
Skrupskelis-talented shoe maker, twin to Marvin. Lithuanian Jews.
Pretty much somebody you wanted to stay out of the way of.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marvin
Skrupskelis-Same as Irv.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Norman
Skrupskelis-Father to Irv and Marvin. Excellent shoemaker</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Patty
Millison-aka Newspaper, aka Paper. She always had the news about what
was going on around Chicken Hill. Very good at the laundry. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Enzo
Carissimi-Big Soap. 6’6”, Italian. Friend of Fatty</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bernice
Davis-sister to Fatty. Next door neighbor to Chona and Moshe. Did not
speak much to either Fatty or Chona-they went to school together.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carl
Boydkins-Doc Roberts cousin. Person from the State. Used to be
Chona’s classmate.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Monkey
Pants-a boy with cerebral palsy at Pennhurst sanatorium</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gus
Plitzka-owner of a dairy and a well. Mayor of Pottstown</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miggy
Fludd-used to work with Paper. Did laundry and told fortunes. And now
works at Pennhurst</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bullis-the
egg man</span></span></li></ul>
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Osher </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
January 11, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book:</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: OSHER Book</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
I look at a book like this, I am think of it in a couple of ways.
First, is the story good and is the telling of it good? Second, what
is the author trying to tell us and is it congruent with the story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
is the later is what I want to deal with here. First, the nature of
the story has Jews and Blacks living side by side. While at times
there seems to be some aloofness, there is not real friction. Chona
may be the real reason why there is not friction. She both works at
making sure she treats all as humans. She also has a natural
acceptance of all, except for maybe clueless or arrogant goys. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Both
the Jews and the Blacks have a distinct feelings of the injustices
thrust upon them by the Whites of the community. Things like neither
is too welcome outside of their neighborhood, except to perform some
service. During an annual Memorial Day parade which is almost all
White, the Jews are expected to get everything ready, but not really
to participate and all for free.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the key statements in the book is [Nate]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
lived in a nation with statutes and decrees that consigned him as an
equal but not equal, his life bound by a set of rules and regulations
in matters of equality that largely did not apply to him. … He was
a man without a country living in a world of ghosts, for having no
country meant no involvement and not caring for a thing beyond your
own heart and head, and ghosts and spirits were the only thing
certain in a world where your existence was invisible.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In many ways, this book shows that. The Blacks felt this much more
than the Jews, but the Jews also knew this as well.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>Part
I: Gone</b></span></u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>1.
The Hurricane</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
skeleton has been found in a well with only a few clues about whose
it is: threads from an old jacket, a belt buckle and a mezuzah which
had World’s Greatest Dancer inscribed on it. A strange thing to
have since they generally are on door posts.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi
notes that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Jewish
life is portable,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Interesting phrase. Christians are also meant to be not of this
world. I think we get those roots from the Jews. The police say he is
a suspect and will question him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1972
and </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Agnes"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Hurricane
Agne</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
has come through town destroying everything, including the skeleton
and the well.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Takes
place in Pottstown in a section called Chicken Hill. At one time, it
was a Jewish enclave, but many of them left and now are replaced by
Blacks.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>2.
A Bad Sign</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1925-Moshe
owns the All-American Dance Hall and Theater.</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_Webb"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chick
Webb</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Katz"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Mickey
Katz</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Snow
storm is about to close a popular act. Nate settles Katz in to play
and all is right. Talks about how everything got screwed up and it
almost did not come off.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
then was moping around, wondering how he was going to pay off the
debts. He settled into the only Jewish store on Chicken Hill, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Heaven
& Earth Grocery Store.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It was owned by a Jew by the name of Yakov Flohr-he is also the
rabbi for Chicken Hill. Had a daughter who had been crippled by polio
named Chona. Moshe falls in love with her.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
were married within a week. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
dance was a success and he was able to pay all of his debts. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
met Malachi-but did not get his name. Moshe considered him the
world’s greatest dancer. But he says he did not come to dance, he
wants a wife. As they were parting, there was a loud pop and black
smoke. Malachi says this is a sign of bad times.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>3.
Twelve</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describes
Chona as somebody who was joyful being around. Isaac said of her that
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
They can’t pour a glass of water without making a party of it.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This sounds like a wonderful person to be around.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
booked a colored band and opened the hall to colored people. It was a
hit. Moshe noticed how joyful Chick Webb was.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
started having dreams of Moses. They came in twelves. Moshe
prospered. Other theater owners were jealous. He dealt with the
issues which were put up and even bought the theater he was renting.
He bought a second theater and then Heaven and Earth. Chona said she
would run it rather than have it demolished. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Other
Jews had moved off the Hill, but Moshe and Chona wanted to stay.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Chona’s
years of stirring butter, sorting vegetables, and reading in the back
room of the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store had given her time to
consider.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Consider what? But it is true, busy work will free up the mind and
get you thinking.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chona
was active trying to correct wrongs. She wrote letters, evening
protesting the KKK marches. To the Whites, this is how she is known.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1935</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
wanted to move to where the Americans were, the other Jews. Chona
said he could move, she was not going to move. Also aren’t the
Blacks Americans? Isn’t their money good enough? He points out that
they are doing well and can afford to move. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>She
says that the reason why they are doing well is that they are there
to serve, like the Talmud says to.</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because
Moshe upset Chona so much, he gave her the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Shulchan
Aruch, which spelled out the seven requirements of Jewish life:
wisdom, meekness, fear of God, love of truth, love of people,
possession of a good name, and dislike of money.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Moshe tolerated Chona’s obstinate because </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he
knew her heart, and it was a priceless heart.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is about as high of praise as you can have.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1936-Chona
gets sick. They would not see Doc Roberts, instead went to doctors in
Reading and beyond. No diagnosis or remedy. She got worse. The Blacks
helped out by bringing goodwill, soup and company. Is this repayment
or is this following Chona’s example?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Addie
helped Chona in the store.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Sorrow
charged his </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Moshe’s]
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>mind
at those moments, electrified his memory. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">…
It has been twelve years since they fell in love. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
He read the Word now to keep her alive, and in doing so, a part of
him came alive as well.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is the true reading of the Word when it brings you alive. Not a
dead book written by dead people. How to keep the words alive and
living? Probably by making them part of a life.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
was sure she would live, even if his cousin thought she was dying.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>4.
Dodo</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dodo
is missing. Nate searched for him by the creek. Nate is Dodo’s
uncle.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nate
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
lived in a nation with statutes and decrees that consigned him as an
equal but not equal, his life bound by a set of rules and regulations
in matters of equality that largely did not apply to him. … He was
a man without a country living in a world of ghosts, for having no
country meant no involvement and not caring for a thing beyond your
own heart and head, and ghosts and spirits were the only thing
certain in a world where your existence was invisible.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I think this is the purpose of McBride’s book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
reason why he was running away was because with his mother dead, the
State wanted to put Dodo into a sanitarium. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>5.
The Stranger</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi,
the dancer, comes back into Moshe’s life as a baker. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Addie
is taking care of Moshe, including bossing him around.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi
says that he has a wife now. Says that bad times are ending.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>6.
Challah</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chona’s
fever broke.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi
has bought a bakery. He gives Moshe loaves of challah-a ceremonial
type of bread. Malachi was a pretty bad baker. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Malachi
had a lightness and boundless enthusiasm about worldly matters. He
seemed to bring light and air and goodness to everything he touched.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
These are good qualities and they supersede his qualities as a baker.
In many ways, Malachi is the male counterpart to Chona in Moshe’s
life. Except Malachi moves in and out of Moshe’s life while Chona
is steady there.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi
turns into the best friend of Moshe. Moshe felt the bond and gave
Malachi a mezuzah which could be worn around the neck.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
But this pendant could be worn around the neck, and it bore a special
inscription on the back that read “Home of the Greatest Dancer in
the World.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Malachi was touched but had Moshe give it to Chona. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi
notes he is not a rabbi, but a follower of the Talmud. He notes that
the Jewish way is to comfort rather than sorrow, joy instead of pain.
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi
notes it is not magic bread nor doctors which made Chona well, rather
the fullness of the earth. He cites Psalm 24.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi
notes that Blacks have an advantage in America. Why? Because they
know who they are. </span></span>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
are integrating into a burning house,”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Interesting statement. What is McBride meaning by this?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi
asks Moshe to sell the bakery and then was gone-for three years.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>7.
A New Problem</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
couple of new immigrants were found to be buyers of the bakery. Moshe
thought about Malachi and his ways and came to the conclusion: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
old ways simply didn’t fit in America.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dodo
came up. With his mother dead, Nate and Addie were taking care of
him. The state wanted to send him away. Nate asks if Dodo can stay
at the theater until the State goes away. Moshe wants to ask Chona,
but knows what she will say. Chona’s answer: bring him to their
place and he can stay with them. They cannot have children. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>8.
Paper</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
special school which Dodo was to be taken to was the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>horrific
</i></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennhurst_State_School_and_Hospital"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Pennhurst
sanatorium</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
To the Blacks, being sent there was just another injustice which they
had to endure. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Big
Soap and Fatty friends. They lost their job at the factory because
they did not do what they were paid to do. Fatty said to go ahead and
take a punch which knocked out a tooth of Fatty.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Black man came into the store and looked around. Paper id’d him as
being from the State. He was looking for Dodo.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>9.
The Robin and the Sparrow</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talked
about the building of their temple and the mismanagement of it. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>what
a man does to live often has nothing to do with how he lives.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about the relationship between Chona, Bernice and Fatty which
stretched back to their school days. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>For
Chona, the day Bernice Davis closed off the world was the beginning
of her own adulthood,</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being
a Jewish girl, her mother wanted to marry Chona off. But she had
other ideas. She could not stand the fellow Jews who would help their
fellow European Jews with everythings, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Sending
everything but love.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
Dodo around, she now had a child. But there was a problem, it was
obvious Dodo was not hers. How could Dodo blend in when the State
showed up? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since
Doda had come to live with them, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he
had become a living embodiment of l’chaim, a toast to life.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chona
asked Bernice to allow Dodo to become one of her children when the
State comes to check in. Bernice understood and agreed. But that was
the extent of the relationship.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>10.
The Skrup Shoe</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about the background of Doc Roberts and Carl Boydkins.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McBride
makes comments about Christians keeping their promises. He also notes
that even if a promise is kept, it may not last forever. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
was, after all, a good Christian.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
this case the Boydkins were promised that the factory would be clean.
It was until it wasn’t. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>So
the Boydkins family was forced to sell their 147 acres bordering the
creek for pennies on the dollar to keep America free. It had to be
done.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doc
Roberts had a club foot. No shoe would fit him. Until he went to
Norman Skrupskelis who worked magic with shoe leather. The
Skrupskelis’ did not respect anybody which Roberts found annoying
and irritating. Chona’s shoes came from here as well. They had
lockers close by. Roberts got infatuated with her. She did not want
to be around him. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
married a farm girl and became dissatisfied. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He’d
seen his youth vanish, his town crumble, the blood of its proud white
fathers diluted by invaders:...</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McBride
talked about </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mennonites</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and their horse and buggy. Does he mean Amish? Amish are closely
related theologically to Mennonites, but not quite the same thing. Is
McBride painting these folks all with the same general brush? I
would think McBride would be someone who is sensitive to differences.
But that is said without knowledge of him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doc
Roberts is annoyed that Moshe is Chona’s husband, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>another
Jew who owned not one but two theaters. Where was America in all
this?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Yesterday Trump made a similar comment when he was leaving a
courtroom: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It’s
not America.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doc
Roberts joined the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Knights
of Pottstown meeting actually turned out to be the </i></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Knights_of_the_Ku_Klux_Klan"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>White
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It was a group which was like him. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chona
had visited him once professionally. But did not come back. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boydkins
approached Roberts about examining Dodo. He agrees to go to the store
to examine Dodo.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>11.
Gone</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doc
Roberts comes into the store. Chona is fearful for Dodo. Dodo reads
the fear and remains hidden but able to observe. Roberts does not go
to Chicken Hill without purpose. He was hated on the Hill. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
and Chona argued and Chona fainted. Roberts took this opportunity to
molest Chona. Dodo tackled Roberts, driving him out of the store.
Addie came in and took care of Chona, but Roberts returned with two
policemen. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
police chased and caught Dodo.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Part
II: Gotten</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>12.
Monkey Pants</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dodo
awakens to find that he is in a cast, unable to move at Pennhurst
sanatorium, the C-1 ward. He had only a vague memory because of being
injected with drugs. C-1 was the place for low functioning males.
Monkey Pants was beside him in another crib. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describes
how Monkey Pants and DoDo tried to communicate. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>13.
Cowboy</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
goes to Ringing Rock Ice Rink-there really is a park where the rocks
ring in Pottstown. It is a place where he can reflect. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He’d
offer a </i></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkot_hashachar"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Birkhot
Hashachar</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
a morning prayer. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
was writing to Malachi, but not sure what to write. Nothing seemed
uplifting. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
is thinking about leaving the theater business-things are getting
difficult. There was a conflict between the different bands. Only
when he talked about how he flubbed up, concerned about Chona did one
band relent.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi
and Moshe go through a silly gift exchange.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
wants to talk with Addie and Nate about Dodo. Nate says it is in
God's hands. But if Moshe could have seen Nate’s eyes, he would
have been concerned.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>14.
Differing Weights and Measures</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatty’s
jook place while going full blast was facing trouble. Nate was inside
and being too quiet.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a shaggy dog story about Fatty’s time in Philadelphia getting
his tooth repaired.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
to get Nate out of his place without him busting it up? That was
Fatty’s dilemma. Fatty had inside knowledge about Nate. Fatty had
served time and found out that Nate also served time, but under a
different name, Nate Love. You did not want to mess with Nate Love.
The one thing which Nate said was </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Differing
Weights and Measures. The Lord knows them both.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>15.
The Worm</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Big
Soap’s mother hears rumors of what happened at the store. The
rumors are pretty jumbled and highly inaccurate. She confronts Big
Soap and tells him not to get involved. Fatty is forced to recount
what happened at the store-he did not know, but he was able to
recount several things. She ends the conversation with God is
watching them.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During
all of this, Fatty is concerned on several counts. First Paper would
be spreading the fact that an Italian woman was up on the hill
talking with Fatty. Second, this might bring the police and cause
them to examine his jook joint. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>16.
The Visit</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chona
was in a Reading hospital. Isaac had paid for her stay. The staff was
not used to Jews and Blacks being there. Addie says that Chona is
trying to pray in her coma.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nate
and Addie talk. Nate says to keep quiet about what she saw Roberts
do. As they talk a little bit of Nate’s background slips
out-prison time and a different name.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Addie
thinks that Spriggs is the one who gave Dodo away.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>17.
The Bullfrog</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1936.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
member of the temple wanted a new woman’s bath built after a
bullfrog was found in the old one. This leads to a discussion of
where does the water comes from which goes into the bath. It was
discovered there is not enough water flowing in. The water comes from
an illegal tap into a well. Fatty Davis’ father did the original
connection. Chona had offended Plitzka’s father. The son was now
mayor. He owns the well which they tapped into. The water level is
dropping and now the connection sometimes is below the water line. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
N word is used.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>18.
The Hot Dog</u></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barukh_she%27amar"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Barukh
She’amar</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-a
prayer sung in transition. Chona’s father used to sing it and said
that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“You
can never go wrong when you express your love to the master of the
world,”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She smelled a hot dog.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
was sleeping by her. Chona was thinking that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
was a true Jew, a man of ideas and wit who understood the meaning of
celebration and music and that the blend of those things meant life
itself.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
tells everyone to leave, which they do. A large group stands outside
the door.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
There was nothing to do but talk, which at times like these is all
that’s left.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What did they talk about? The water situation. Isaac thought of
Feldman </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Weak
Jews were a waste of time.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While
they were discussing the well, Chona died. McBride says is that
Chona did not smell a hot dog, but the future. She sensed </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>a
device that children of the future would clamor for and become
addicted to, a device that fed them their oppression disguised as
free thought. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
think this is a jump, a conclusion not warranted in the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Part
III: The Last Love</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>19.
The Lowgods</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatty
takes Paper to a place in Pottstown called Hemlock Row. Fatty is not
comfortable outside of his own area. It is an area which the Lowgods
family is prominent in. This is another Black area. The difference is
those on Chicken Hill were trying to make something of themselves
while the Hemlock Row wanted no part of what was going on outside of
their area.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatty
thinks about his life and loyalty. Bernice, his sister had shown
loyalty to Chona by letting Dodo hide. Fatty had felt that he should
look out only for himself.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paper
is there to see a friend of hers, Miggy, about getting Dodo out of
the sanitarium. Miggy is into a fortune telling business. She says
that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“I’m
an oracle. I’m a messenger. God’s word.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She says that what she gives them most is hope. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a person by the name of Bullis who Miggy singles out and tells
him that Paper has something for him to do when she is ready. It is
about Nate. Miggy tells Paper why there is so many of them working
at Pennhurst.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
They understand what most people in this land don’t: that you can’t
restore what you ain’t never had.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lowgod
means in our language? Little parent.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miggy
knows what Paper wants and how he will get out. Bullis will get the
people inside, it is up to them to deal with getting Dodo out. She
also alludes to the Son of Man as being one of them, but now he is
twisted and no longer is welcome on the Row.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>20.
The Antes House</u></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-news-1924-john-henry-antes/13584069/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>John
Antes</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
John Antes was a missionary, composer and maker of instruments, maybe
the first violin in America. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>American
history is not meant to be pretty. It is plain. It is simple. It is
strong and truthful. Full of blood. And guts. And war.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Memorial
day and Mayor Plitzka needed to make an appearance and march in the
parade with a toe which was infected. Plitzka needed Roberts to do
something with it. The two hated each other. They have a
conversation which makes Roberts nervous about his part in Chona’s
death. Then the conversation turns to water and Chicken Hill.
Plitzka is nervous about this. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plitzka
had bought a dairy. He ended up $1,400 short. He borrowed money. He
did not realize it was from a mobster. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>21.
The Marble</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about life in Pennhurst for Dodo. Monkey Pants and Dodo learned how
to talk through their fingers. Monkey Pants had a blue marble which
reminded Dodo of Chona. Dodo also has his first experience with the
Son of Man.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>22.
Without a Song</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
was closing the store. Too full of memories. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Moshe felt no anger toward them</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Nate
and Addie]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
for the boy had brought his wife joy, and he would have told them
that at moment had his heart had the strength.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
had heard what Addie saw when Chona was attacked. He had also heard
what Roberts said. He was inclined to believe Addie. But he thought
that it was a dead end to go to the police. Both the Jews and Blacks
would not be believed. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>That
kind of bearing was a window into a troubled heart, he knew, one
forged by past troubles and unjust treatment.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moshe
was not a touchy person. Both Addie and Nate were reluctant to give
him comfort-both wanted to.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chona
did not play by the American rules. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
her, the world was not a china closet where you admire this and don’t
touch that. Rather, she saw it as a place where every act of living
was a chance for </i></span></span><a href="https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/tikkun-olam#:~:text=The%20Hebrew%20phrase%20tikkun%20olam,justice%20(MyJewishLearning.com)."><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>tikkun
olam</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
to improve the world.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She was all soul-small in body, great in spirit. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His
grief was debilitating. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
absence of her meant a thousand tomorrows empty of whatever promise
they had once held.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then Isaac brought Malachi there. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac
tries to talk with Nate and Addie. Isaac wants to know what happens.
They do not say even when offered money. He then offers to help get
Dodo out through a lawyer. Isaac notes that this is a land of laws.
Nate says this is a land of white folks laws. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>23.
Bernice’s Bible</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bernice
came to see Fatty-a rarity. They rehash old gripes before Bernice
gets to the point. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatty
thinks it was the Reverend who told the State about Dodo, maybe
indirectly. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
think that Isaac must have talked with Bernice about the well as that
was the reason for the visit by Bernice. She transferred the money to
Fatty to fix the well.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatty
at one point says </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
do we owe each other on this Hill, Bernice?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is the essence of community. What do we owe each other? Or even
a better way to put it, how are we to help each other? As a
Christian, how can we lift each other up?</span></span></p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>24.
Duck Boy</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a group gathering to free Dodo. Miggy describes Pennhurst and
then says </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>But
on the inside, well . . . that’s where the devil does his work.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She describes it as an evil place. She also describes the Son of Man
person. Then says it is possible that Nate has a purpose in all of
this. Miggy draws a map of the way into/out of Pennhurst on the pie. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miggy
also goes on and talks about deliveries to Pennhurst. She then says
that the Son of Man knows who Nate is.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>there’s
man’s understanding and there’s women’s understanding. There is
white folks’ understanding and Negroes’ understanding. And then
there is just plain wisdom.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>25.
The Deal</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marvin
meets with Isaac. Marvin wants Isaac to arrange for some Jewish
railroad men to be on a train when Dodo gets out of Pennhurst. Isaac
can arrange that.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a paragraph about principle.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>26.
The Job</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatty
and Big Soap will work on the well. Rusty will join them.
Complication: Paper wants Fatty to help Nate move equipment tonight
so that Nate can break out Dodo. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>27.
The Finger</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dodo’s
caste had come off and he had joined the other patients, but was not
able to stand up very long. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
desperate loneliness of the place didn’t just chafe him, it began
to destroy him.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
There was a pecking order where the most able ran everything and got
the most. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
started feeling guilt about some minor stuff he had done and how he
let Chona down. Monkey Pants played a game with Dodo about who can
hold each other’s finger the longest. Dodo’s guilt seemed to melt
away. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Son
of Man looked like he was going to rape Dodo until Monkey Pants had a
violent seizure and everyone came running. Monkey Pants was gone.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>28.
The Last Love</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nate
gets a ride to Hemlock Row. He did some work for a friend there. He
was a wanted man on Hemlock Row for previous stuff he had done. So he
ended up doing things differently than how it was set up with Miggy.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bullis
was still making his egg run, but something was a matter. Bullis
confronts the Son of Man. Son of Man beats him. Then Nate emerges
from the cart and kills the Son of Man.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
bit more on Nate’s history including that his father had some to
Pennsylvania expecting freedom from racism and found that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
justice and freedom had as little currency in the new land as it had
in the old. …</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
difference was that the white man in the South spoke his hatred in
clear, clean, concise terms, whereas the white man in the new country
hid his hatred behind stories of wisdom and bravado, with false
smiles of sincerity and stories of Jesus Christ and other nonsense
that he tossed about like confetti in the Pottstown parade.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Nate had been abandoned. He ended up living on the street. He killed
a rapist and was sent to prison. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>29.
Waiting for the Future</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Everything
looks bad this year for the parade. The Jewish people had not taken
care of things for free like they usually do. Roberts and Plitzka
both are not in the proper uniforms. Plitzka gets accosted by one of
the mob men while waiting for the parade. Here there was a mix up
where Roberts got the wrong colored coat. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatty
and Big Soap worked on connecting the temple’s pipes to city water
from the well water. But the cover to the well was broken.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
mob’s hit man thought he had broken Plitzka jaw. But because of the
red coat mix up, he got Roberts. Roberts fell into the open well.
Fatty did not see Roberts in the well when they cemented over it.
Said about Roberts: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
And sadly, neither was the man. For his wife did not love him. His
children did not miss him. The town did not erect a statue in his
honor.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
One of the saddest statement in the book.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
here is where McBride goes off and talks about what Roberts
believed-the racist thoughts about Blacks and Jews. He notes that it
was the rich men who benefited from these thoughts. They got richer
and no one else did.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Epilogue</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about how the Jewish connection with the railroad men had Nate and
Dodo on the trail to Philadelphia then to Charsleton. Nate was sure
he would never see Addie again.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
did not deserve what she had to give. But fortitude and love’s
reason have many a season, and one day she would return to him.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
in Dodo’s future, there is Uncle Nate and Aunt Addie. When Dodo
died on June 22, 1972, the day Hurricane Agnes struck Pennsylvania.
Dodo was known as Nate Love II.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Camp
Chona</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
is a made up camp. But there are </span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/06/11/1181547724/jewish-summer-camps-are-an-american-tradition-rooted-in-world-war-ii"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jewish
camp’s</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
which seem like it is a tradition such as </span></span><a href="https://tawonga.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Camp
Tawonga.</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Call Out Acknowledgments</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McBride
worked at a Summer Camp for those with disabilities. This book was
written as an ode to that time and its director.</span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">n</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
old skeleton in a well starts this story off and ends it. Between the
two chapters are the stories of a Jewish and Black neighborhood in
Pennsylvania in the 1930’s. McBride takes a Jewish couple who own a
grocery story in what used to be a Jewish neighborhood which is now
turning more Black. It shows their relationships and in some ways how
it is possible to get along when you have a couple different
cultures.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
the main point of the story is how the communities which are
oppressed by the more powerful White community works in that kind of
system. How the issues they face bind them together, </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">not
in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ways
do they</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
all live together way, </span><span style="font-size: small;">but in cooperation.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McBride’s
story at times reminds me of a shaggy dog story. It just lumbers on.
But you know that he is going in a direction and you want to continue
on to see where he takes you. He puts in a few places about what
these people faced, not necessarily conquering, but adapting and
overcoming.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
you have a couple of evenings, it is worth the time to read McBride’s
story. And a closing hint: read McBride’s acknowledgments first to
understand where he is coming from and why he wrote the book the way
he did.</span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">OSHER
Notes:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Themes:</span></span></p>
<ul><li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hopelessness
and hopefulness</span></span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Community</span></span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Disable</span></span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Regret</span></span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Water</span></span></p></li></ul>
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some
felt the ending was contrived and the author took a short cut.
Another person felt that the want of water tied everything in.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
it was a good book. Paint the picture while developing the
characters.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Children
of immigrants seem to bridge the gaps of cultures.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">====</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who
is Malachi? Does he represent something for McBride?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi
starts off the book by saying </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Jewish
life is portable.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What does he mean by that? How did a Jewish life become portable?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chona
notes that they, the Jews, are there to serve. How is Chona an
example? Does Moshe serve? How?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malachi
notes that Blacks have a natural advantage in this world, they know
who they are. What does McBride/Malachi mean by this?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also
McBride says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
are integrating into a burning house.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What does he mean by this?</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>what
a man does to live often has nothing to do with how he lives. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Discuss
this statement. Is this true?</span></span></p>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
one time, a person’s word meant that it would not be broken.
McBride traces how over time, the person who gave his word to the
Boydkins kept it, but each succeeding owner did not. How good is a
person’s word? How long should it be kept? Is a written contract
better? Did a written document save the Native American lands?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doc
Roberts thought it was not right that Moshe was becoming affluent. He
did not think it was American. What did Roberts think America was?
Are there current examples of this thinking?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nate
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Differing
Weights and Measures. The Lord knows them both.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Even Moshe has a similar thoughts about why he could not go to the
authorities over the attack on Chona: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>That
kind of bearing was a window into a troubled heart, he knew, one
forged by past troubles and unjust treatment.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is one of the themes of the book. How does Nate see the world he
lives in? Does he feel any hope? How has he learned to live in that
book? Is there a feeling of injustice or a need to break the system?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatty
asks his sister, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
do we owe each other on this Hill?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How does community play out in this story? What do we owe each other?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the things which is an underlying current in this book is regret.
Chona when she was dying felt that she should have spent more time
with Moshe than her books. Fatty saw how loyal Bernice was with
Chona. How does this idea of regret shape the book?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another
thread is the place of disability in the story. Both Chona and Dodo
are disabled, along with many of the performers at Moshe’s theater.
How does disability shape this story?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McBride
uses the N word. Why? When is an author allowed to use the N word?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is
this just a good story or does McBride want us to understand
something else?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
there anybody you would consider religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did they show it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
the book overtly religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did it affect the book's story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is the culture described in this book different from where we live?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
economic or political situations are described?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author examine economics and politics, family traditions, the
arts, religious beliefs, language or food?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/fiction-discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Groups General Fiction Guide</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691602/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store-by-james-mcbride/9780593422946/readers-guide/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reader’s
Guide from Penguin Books</u></span></span></span></a></p> <br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mezuzah:
a piece of parchment inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the
Torah, which Jewish followers of Rabbinical Judaism affix to the
doorposts of their homes.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">klezmer
: refers to musical instruments in ancient times. It became
colloquially attached to Jewish folk musicians sometime in the Middle
Ages.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Haskalah
: a city in which the rising middle class Jews and intellectual
elites not only lived among, but were exposed to previous age of
enlightenment thinkers</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hasidic
: idea is to live a hallowed life, in which even the most mundane
action is sanctified. Hasidim live in tightly-knit communities (known
as "courts") that are spiritually centered around a
dynastic leader known as a rebbe, who combines political and
religious authority.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fusgeyer:
a movement of Romanian Jews who emigrated in an organized manner
from Romania from 1900 to 1920. Their name refers to the fact that
they were often too poor to even purchase a train ticket to a port
city.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Goyim:
a term used by Jewish people for a non-Jewish person.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Challah:
a special bread of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, usually braided and
typically eaten on ceremonial occasions such as Shabbat and major
Jewish holidays (other than Passover). Ritually acceptable challah is
made of dough from which a small portion has been set aside as an
offering. Challah may also refer to the dough offering. The word is
biblical in origin, meaning "loaf". Similar braided breads
such as kalach and vánočka are found across Central and Eastern
Europe.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">jook
joint: the African American vernacular term for an informal
establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking,
primarily operated by African Americans</span></span></li></ul>
<div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Shulchan
Aruch</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
(Code of Jewish Law)</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: There was an old Jew who live at the site of the old synagogue
up on Chicken Hill in the town of Pottstown, PA and when Pennsylvania
State Troopers found a skeleton at the bottom of an old well off
Hayes Street , the old Jew was the first place they went to.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: “Thank you, Monkey Pants.</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
I: Gone </span></span>
</li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.
The Hurricane </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2.
A Bad Sign </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3.
Twelve </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4.
Dodo </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5.
The Stranger </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6.
Challah </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7.
A New Problem </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">8.
Paper </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9.
The Robin and the Sparrow </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">10.
The Skrup Shoe </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">11.
Gone </span></span>
</li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
II: Gotten </span></span>
</li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">12.
Monkey Pants </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">13.
Cowboy</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">14.
Differing Weights and Measures </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">15.
The Worm </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">16.
The Visit </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">17.
The Bullfrog </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">18.
The Hot Dog </span></span>
</li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
III: The Last Love </span></span>
</li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">19.
The Lowgods </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">20.
The Antes House </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">21.
The Marble </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">22.
Without a Song </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">23.
Bernice’s Bible </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">24.
Duck Boy </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">25.
The Deal </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">26.
The Job </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">27.
The Finger </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">28.
The Last Love </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">29.
Waiting for the Future </span></span>
</li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Epilogue</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Call Out Acknowledgments </span></span>
</li></ul>
<br />
<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691602/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store-by-james-mcbride/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://www.jamesmcbride.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heaven_%26_Earth_Grocery_Store"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McBride_(writer)"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Earth-Grocery-Store-Novel/dp/0593422945"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>-Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-McBride/author/B000AP9SB2?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-heaven-earth-grocery-store-james-mcbride/1142821692"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65678550-the-heaven-earth-grocery-store?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=HbMVRWK1SS&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11728.James_McBride"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">New
York Times </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/books/review/reading-james-mcbrides-the-heaven-earth-grocery-store.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Guardian’s </span></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/26/the-heaven-earth-grocery-store-by-james-mcbride-review-sweet-solidarity"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NPR</span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1188327549/james-mcbride-heaven-earth-grocery-store-review"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kirkus
</span></span><a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/james-mcbride/the-heaven-earth-grocery-store/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ToA-2TsnQ"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>YouTube</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
- Interview</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAPmDKnBRYc"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>YouTube</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
- Politics and Prose</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pottstown
Mercury article: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>O</i></span></span><a href="https://www.pottsmerc.com/2023/09/11/opinion-unique-memories-of-the-real-chicken-hill/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>pinion:
Unique memories of the real Chicken Hil</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>l</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">See
the </span></span><a href="https://jewishcommunitylibrary.org/book_club_selections/heavenearth/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jewish
Community Library </u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for
a list of related links</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marmalade
and Mustard Seed </span></span><a href="https://www.marmaladeandmustardseed.com/bookguidesblog/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>blog</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">National
Catholic Reporter</span></span><a href="https://www.ncronline.org/culture/book-reviews/james-mcbride-keeps-us-guessing-heaven-earth-grocery-store"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Time
Magazine </span></span><a href="https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2023/6332623/the-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Three
Village Historical Society <a href="https://www.threevillagehistoricalsociety.org/virtual-exhibit-chicken-hill">page
</a>on Chicken Hill</span></span></li></ul>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/make-list.html#BookReferences">Book References</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/make-list.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/make-list.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/make-list.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-336f4d36-7fff-b48e-842b-bd347fd12af6" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Libby from Los Angeles Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Eerdmans</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9780802875747 (ISBN10: 0802875742)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: January 2, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: January 13, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">202 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Christianity, Personal Growth</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3½ out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author has lists for everything. But not so much as ToDo’s, even
though she has that. She makes lists as a means to help her focus her
thoughts, to remember things she holds precious. The book is broken
into three parts:</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
Make a List?</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Listing
as a Way of Life</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her
personal lists</span></span></li></ul>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each
part has several chapters, each two to four pages long. Each chapter
ends with a challenge to make a list upon the theme of the chapter.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book: January 1, 2024</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: I became aware of the author when I read
</span></span><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/when-poets-pray.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>When
Poets Pray.</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I am wondering what else she had to say.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it? While she will not be one of my top
authors, there was enough there to get me interested. I am wondering
if she has a more effective means of making lists.</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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I may take down some(all?) of the exercises from the book. I suspect I may have over down it in trying to get good notes.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Introduction:
Living by Lists</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Making
lists is a learning experience. While the ToDo lists are useful, it
is the other ones she finds more topical which helps her out. The
list of things which lists do for her include:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
are mirrors: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
you look at what you’ve written down, no matter what the content, a
list shows you something about what has come to matter to you</i></span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
are a way of learning</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
are a way of listening-to your self</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
are a way of loving: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Paying
attention is the first step toward love</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
are way way of letting go</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
may become a prayer practice</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
book is in three parts:</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Part
I, I provide a series of reflections on the purposes and pleasures of
list-making.</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Part
II, I offer more specific reflections on particular life situations
in which lists may become instruments of illumination or direction or
discernment</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Part
III, I offer a number of my lists, written on a variety of occasions,
along with stories about how they grew</i></span></span></li></ul><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Part
I: Why Make a List? Lists serve a surprising variety of purposes.
Here are a few reasons to make them.</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<u> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
discover subtle layers of feeling</span></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">List
making slows down a person, causing them to ponder. Each chapter in
this part has </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Some
Lists to Try:</i></span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Seven
kinds of satisfaction</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What’s
underneath the anger</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
happens in the aftermath</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Feelings
I tend to suppress</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
I am most content</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
name what you want</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Knowing
what you want isn’t as simple or obvious a matter as it might seem.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Moves you from the fog of generality to things which are specific.</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I’ve begun wanting recently</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I’ve wanted for the last five minutes</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I’ve wanted for more than five years</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I want for the next generation </i></span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I’d like to stop wanting</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
clarify your concerns</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
can be any concern-political, national, or persona.</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Concerns
about [a particular loved one]</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Who
is attending to public concerns I care about</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Undue
pressures on young people I love</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
to speak out</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to sustain my own mental/emotional health</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
decide what to let go of</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
can be physical such as clothing, books or stuff. Or it can be
emotional baggage. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>No
doubt all of us are intimately familiar with our own specific
tendencies to “clutch and cling.”</i></span></span><br />
</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
needs reclassification as clutter</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
to give away to whom</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
is no longer useful to me</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
old resentments I can relinquish</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Where
I still need to accept forgiveness</i></span></span></li></ul>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
help dispel a few fears</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Naming
a fear can help make it seem less formable. Ask </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I’m afraid of?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And then come up with a list of why or what. </span></span>
</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fears
for the children I care about</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ways
of addressing my favorite fears</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Changes
I find threatening</i></span></span></li><li>
“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Irrational”
fears</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Texts
that help me with my fears</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
claim what gives you joy</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Kondo’s
general idea is a good one: pay attention to what helps you choose
life and live it joyfully, and let go of whatever inhibits that
freedom of spirit.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Just because it is expensive does not mean it needs to be held onto.</span></span><br />
</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
happens on my best days</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to enjoy what I have</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Small
things that make her/him glad</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I know now about happiness</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to decommercialize Christmas</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
find out what you still have to learn</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
of learning is to identify uncertainties, gaps, anomalies and
complexities. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>My
first days in graduate school offered me a new occasion for learning
that my learning was incomplete.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
… </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Every
gap opens a door to new learning, and gives us a chance to practice
what the Buddhists beautifully call “beginner’s mind</i></span></span><br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I’d like to know about my bioregion</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I’d like to understand about the Bible</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I’d like to understand about Islam</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Where
ignorance gets dangerous</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Questions
I’d like to ask [name your expert here]</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
put new words to old experiences</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
McEntyre’s experience, there is a tendency for the lists to become
poetic-she does teach poetry.</span></span><br />
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</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
lay just outside the photo frame</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Unhelpful
euphemisms</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Other
answers—besides “Fine”—to “How are you?”</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Phrases
worth remembering</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Words
I’ve never thought to use to describe my father</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
get at the questions behind the questions</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
learned to begin a research project with a list of twenty-five
questions about the topic. Then I would whittle down the list of
questions by considering which were most inviting, intriguing,
helpful—which ones gave me energy and made me want to find out
more.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
thinks one should ask why is the question being asked? Why is it a
concern? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
simple way to go “deeper” is to ask, “What am I really wanting
to know?” or “Why has this come to matter to me now?” or,
alternatively, “How might this question be diverting my attention
from a question I’m avoiding asking?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elie
Wiesel said that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed a
power that did not lie in the answer. … I pray to the God within me
that he will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
To ask questions, you must want to hear the answer.</span></span><br />
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</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I wonder about my work</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What’s
been changing this year?</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What’s
drying up or dying out and why?</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Is
this problem my responsibility?</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
am I willing to know</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
find out who’s inside</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Essentially
these lists are to assist you in finding out who you are.</span></span><br />
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</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
choices do I make when I have a few hours alone?</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Where
would I go for refreshment and renewal if I could?</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
dream images stay with me?</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
irritants might I need to explore?</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
takes me close to tears?</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
play with possibilities</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
faced with an issue, there are usually more than two sides to the
issue. She goes into brainstorming-a process I have never found
productive.</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ways
we might relieve electronic stress</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
to do with five whole minutes</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
project that might improve local schools</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ways
to protect kids from sugar</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
a local barter system might look like</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
identify complicating factors</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Processes
usually do not follow a straight line. Listing can help figure out
why.</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
I hung on so long</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
I didn’t tell anyone</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
I keep it secret</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
I’m postponing what I so clearly want</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
I changed my mind about money</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
map the middle ground</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can
lists really bridge the divide we have in our country?</span></span><br />
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</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Positions
I can afford to modify</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Possible
peace offerings</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
lies between a new car and no new car</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
might be discovered between right wing and left wing</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hills
I don’t want to die on</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
explore implications</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Take
a fact and analyze it with the following in mind:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1)
If that’s true, what else is likely to be true?; or </i></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(2)
If that’s true, what else might we need to know to understand the
implications of that fact</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Most
facts have implications, just as most acts have consequences, and
it’s a good exercise to pause over them</i></span></span></p>
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
takes 1.39 liters of water to produce 1 liter of bottled water</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Refined
sugar is more addictive than cocaine</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Americans
between 8 and 18 average 53 hours a week on electronic devices</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bees
are essential to the human food supply</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Drumming
helps relieve stress</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
connect the dots</u></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(intelligence_official)"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>William
Binney</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-McEntyre
uses him as a metaphor on being able to connect the dots. She says he
invented a device which could figure out what the electronic
relationship was between two people. In looking at Wikipedia, it
sounds like he has conspiracy leanings.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Experiment:
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Choose
any two public issues, but two that seem quite distant from each
other, and consider how they’re connected.</i></span></span><br />
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</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ways
I personally depend on the rainforests</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
connects me to the people in the local nursing home</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
it means to say that children belong to all of us</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
I might need to know what high schools pay for athletic programs</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
it matters who manufactured my sofa</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
get to your learning edge</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
can go on for what seems like forever. McEntyre thinks that is the
trick. As a literature teacher she urges her students </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to
continue adding until they get just beyond the point where they think
they’ve said all they have to say. Just beyond is where the
surprises lie.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fifteen
(or more) facts about my grandmother’s early life</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Biblical
texts I find hard to interpret</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Musical
[or other field of your choice] terms I’d like to understand</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
read [a favorite author]—or the daily news or South Indian novels</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I need to know to be a better gardener</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
notice what you might have missed</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
list can help you appreciate what is familiar. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Familiar
places are similarly worth revisiting</i></span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
her face is changing</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What’s
new in the garden</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I hadn’t noticed about my nephew</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
lies between the lines</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Quiet
corners where things have been happening</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
experience deep attention</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Look
deeper into a subject, even a mundane or that which you do everyday.</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
I recognize summonings</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Small
things to do with great love</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Unspoken
needs I’m noticing around me</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Where
personal and public life meet</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
I “find myself</i></span></span></li></ul><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
enjoy complete permission</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
can cause you to concentrate on what you should not be doing.
McEntyre says that lists should also give you permission to do
things.</span></span><br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>lectio
divina—an ancient exercise of reading Scripture slowly, listening
for a word or phrase to dwell on</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lent:
A Time of Permission-</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre
did a talk on this subject.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Permissions
I need to give myself</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Where
I feel unpermitted</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Who
needs my permission</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Permissions
I’ve found in Scripture</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I can afford to allow, even though it annoys me</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Part
II: The Way of the List-Maker</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
aren’t many “rules” in list-making, but there are reliable ways
to make lists useful, beautiful, and fun. Here are a few to try out.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Things
to do to the to-do list: Exploring priorities and intentions</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even
if a ToDo list is ignored, they can help give direction, funneling
your imagination into constructive ways. Her To Do list includes:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
to do for the homeless here in town</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Show
up at church and make sandwiches</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Stop
and talk a little</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Support
the local food bank</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Find
out who’s running the shelters and what they need</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Buy
extra supplies when you go to the drugstore</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Make
eye contact</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Carry
an extra blanket to give away when it’s cold</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Listen
to their stories and relay them</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>OR
TRY PLAYING WITH ONE OF THESE:</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
to do when I’m feeling down</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
to do more often with the ones I love</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
to do to improve the world if I can’t save it</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
to do with small children</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
to delegate</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>How
to do almost anything: How how-to lists help you learn how</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
list is a starting place, not the end of the thought process.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to get more out of boring meetings</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to reclaim what’s getting lost in the noise and haste</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to spend good time with a person with dementia</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to cope with a steady stream of bad news</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to be a better friend</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Playing
favorites: Lists that clarify values</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Favorite
films of the past five years</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Favorite
political commentators and journalists</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Favorite
ways to care for my body and well-being</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Favorite
gifts I’ve been given</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Favorite
lines from poems or songs</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
wonder of word lists: How word lists empower, educate, and amuse</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
an exercise, she has her students write down all the things which
lights does-she gives them one minute. This could also be a list of
phrases instead of a word.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Shades
of red</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Antique
words that deserve to be retrieved</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Words
I like just because they’re delicious</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Phrases
from our family culture</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
babies do with their bodies</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Allowing
lament: How lists open a space for sorrow</u></span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I will miss about her</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
weighs on my heart</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Cracks
where the light gets in</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I see when I descend to the depths</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Losses
that have changed me</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>How
a list becomes a poem: Lists that work in ways you hadn’t planned</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Many
poems begin as lists—or are lists.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But I do not think that McEntyre is saying all lists are poems. She
does say that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>not
all lists are poems. Lists become poems when poetic devices come into
play, …</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
this may be a conscientious choice or one which just happens. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
she brought with her into the room</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Moments
I had almost forgotten</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I really needed</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Small
things that have mattered</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I must be willing to witness</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>How
a list becomes a prayer: When lists lead you to your longings</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
can become rote or a tool to remind us who to pray for. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>all
of us need, periodically, to ask again, “Lord, teach us to pray.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The prayer list should help us connect the person with our prayers.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Policymakers
under pressure</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
leaders are carrying</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
help may be needed now</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
needs to be clarified</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
comfort might look like</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
long second look: Lists that teach you how to look again</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
can create linkage between old and new.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
taught a class called </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
Second Look at Certain Books-</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a
class where everybody has read the books to be discussed at least
once.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre
talks about her father: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
was stricken to realize how much I didn’t know about the man who
had brought us kids up.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I’ve found just behind the obvious</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
Mom might have said</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
my civics teacher seems to have left out </i></span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Missed
opportunities to be reclaimed </i></span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Corrections
for the record: Things to explain at my funeral</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Memento
mori: Lists that commemorate</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
reminisces about the singers of her youth who played at Joan Baez’
75 birthday. She makes the comment that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>remembering
doesn’t mean returning so much as reassembling.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Not sure what she means by that. She talks about piecing together
what time has made fuzzy. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Chana
Bloch puts it, “the past keeps changing.” … The key to
commemoration is specifics</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I remember about my aunt</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
seventh grade felt like</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
war looks like</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Those
who made the difference</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
we knew he was called to be a coach</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Switching
lenses: Lists that reframe</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
talks about seeing old things in new terms. Maybe something assumed
which is now shown to be false. It also can be playful</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Valuable
distractions</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
to neglect</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
doesn’t matter as much as I thought</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
pieties don’t play well</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
to harden my heart</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Better
than a punching bag: Lists that open a safe space for anger</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These
are lists of grievances. </span></span>
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
I think this indignation is righteous</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I need to defuse the fury</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
they might be angry</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
keeps us at odds</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
small irritants grew into big outrage</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lists
for life review: How lists help focus the backward glance</u></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.intensivejournal.org/Specialized_Spirituality_ContPractice-Overview.php#contpract"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Ira
Progoff</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
whose “journal workshops”. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He is dead, but his work lives on through some workshops. Also he has
several books on journaling. He advocates a process he called “Life
Review.” The idea is to list significant moments in your life each
year.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It’s
worth noticing how we narrate our stories to ourselves.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How we cast our life shows how we think about ourselves. This changes
as we change. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
of the functions of our sacred texts is to help us recognize
ourselves as characters in a much larger narrative than our own.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Moments
of insight</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
“where” mattered</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Gifts
from guides</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I edit out</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I no longer need to do</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Cracking
open clichés: Lists that get behind the surfaces</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
difference between those</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
[simple truths]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
and clichés that quash emotional truths lies in whether they close
down those felt moments or open them up to empathy and to whatever
silence or conversation might occur. …clichés if there weren’t
truth in them. </i></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
I’ve been “asleep at the wheel” </i></span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
might be needing “a stitch in time”</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
it’s going to take to get “back in the saddle”</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
I “beat around the bush”</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Where
I might need to “blow the whistle.”</i></span></span></li></ul><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Wanting
what you want: Lists that identify unidentified desires</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Useful
for learning what you really want.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I wanted and never got</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I want that I believe would truly enhance my life and growth</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I wish I didn’t want</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I’ve learned about my wants</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I used to want but don’t anymore</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Talking
points: Lists that illuminate your message</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Vagueness
is often a mark of ignorance, evasiveness, or inexperience—and it
can be dangerous</i></span></span><br />
</p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I’ve decided about my diet</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
everyone needs to know about climate change</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
I won’t allow you to stare at a screen for more than two hours a
day</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
I avoid shopping at _________ </i></span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
faith matters</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Thin
places and sacred spaces: Lists as guides to path-finding</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/winter/w3206/edit/tseliotlittlegidding.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TSElliot “Little Gidding”</a></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>You
are not here to verify,</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Instruct
yourself, or inform curiosity</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Or
carry report. You are here to kneel</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Where
prayer has been valid</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>These
beautiful lines remind readers that the purposes of pilgrimage may
be, as Eliot put it, “beyond the end you figured, and . . . altered
in fulfillment.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The idea is a place where you can be alone and open yourself up.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pilgrimage
places I’d like to visit </i></span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Special
rooms and sacred objects</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ancestral
sites</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Buildings
that open my heart when I enter them</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Natural
objects I keep, hold, or visit</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Love
letters: Lists that count the ways</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saying
I love you is the most basic form. The poet also says let me count
the ways. Love letters should be interesting and fun.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lovingyou.com
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
- May be obsolete</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Romanceforeveryone.com
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
- May be obsolete</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.boston.com/love-letters/marriage/my-ex-sent-me-a-card/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Loveletters.boston.com</u></i></span></span></span></a></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Things
I’ve thought but haven’t said</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I noticed last time we went out</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I’ve missed since you’ve been gone</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I probably remember that you probably don’t</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I see unfolding in you</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Litanies:
Lists that help you relax into prayer</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
the word </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>litany</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
there is a sense of lists and a lot of times negative, such as going
through things by rote. But there is the sense of ceremony as well.
She references the </span></span><a href="http://bcp2019.anglicanchurch.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12-Great-Litany.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Anglican
“Great Litany</u></i></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Summary
statements: Listing for retrospection</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
good summary will give what are the main points of something. It is
more than just a play-by-play of an event or story. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
the conflict developed</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What’s
changed since I came of age</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
my co-workers are hoping for</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
I believe now</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
eulogy I’d like someone to deliver</i></span></span></li></ul><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Part
III: Play Lists</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
are a way of opening up “play space.” This section is an
invitation to play—to tinker with each other’s lists, to use the
ones provided here as templates for your own, to move lines around
and change the mood and marvel at your own ingenuity. Consider, as
you read these lists and the short reflections that follow each of
them, where whimsy, need, poetic inclinations, and playful
imagination might take you.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre
provides us with her own lists and some challenges. Sort of like she
has done all along. But now they are the main focus.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
List-Maker’s Master List</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">List
making may become a way of life, replacing other activities. I think
she is being too optimistic in this. Also I think she is thinking
that lists are too important.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Why
read?</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is an example of a list of Why?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
talks back to her book. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
I read, I enter into conversation; good reading isn’t just a
one-way street. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is a trick I learned from Mortimer Adler in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to Read a Book</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Perhaps
the best thing reading does is raise new questions, or old ones in
new contexts. Why care? How do we know? What shapes our ends?</i></span></span></p>
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
read?</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
rearrange what you thought you knew</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
converse with unavailable people</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It’s
cheaper than shopping</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
restock your conversational larder</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
counteract creeping media mindlessness</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
see how others do it</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
taste the flavor of words</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>For
the joy of a graceful sentence</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
get better-quality gossip</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
discover new questions</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
go places you can’t get to otherwise</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>And
come back changed</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>AN
INVITATION TO MY FELLOW LIST-MAKERS:</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Here
are several prompts for lists about reading:</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Phrases
that have stayed with me</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
read [your favorite author]?</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Books
I would retitle</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
most enjoyable scenes in my reading life</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>My
favorite nonfiction</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>What
tennis teaches</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes
activities can teach us things about life. She uses tennis in this
regard. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
the body learns, the mind turns into metaphor, or into parable, or
into an organizing insight.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pick
a sport or craft or hobby or activity and consider what it has taught
you, listing those things as they occur to you. Even the apparently
trivial learning moments matter: learning to take small, even
stitches in quilting; learning to bend from the waist in yoga;
learning to offer or respond to slight pressure from your partner’s
hand when you dance. Assign yourself seven things, or ten, and then
write a short reflection on how those learnings or lessons have
served your deeper, more enduring purposes.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
manifesto for amateurs</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Amateur,
from the Latin amator, is a happy word: it means “lover</i></span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
general definition of a manifesto is “a public declaration of
policy or aims.” Try writing one, including intentions, insights,
permissions, and a few challenges to “common sense.” One of
these, for instance: </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
manifesto for moms (or dads or grandparents)</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
manifesto for the Sunday-morning faithful</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
manifesto for Monday mornings</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
manifesto for the family cook</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
manifesto for the electronically overwhelmed</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
what happens when you combine serious intention with irony or
amusement; varying the tone may serve more than stylistic purposes.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>How
to defeat bureaucracy</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How-to
lists appeal to most of us because most of us need and want specific
guidance about</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and here she lists a variety of things. She goes on list making is
not only gaining expertise, but also clarifying things. When it comes
to bureaucracy, the key is to know what you want. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Make
a how-to list for yourself, considering as specifically as you can
what’s involved in a process that matters to you, even if you feel
you’re not sure exactly how to approach it. For example, you might
consider how to take on problems like these:</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to manage electronic overload</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to disappoint people and still like yourself</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to get out the door on time</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to use insomnia to your advantage</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Or
you might simply see how well you can articulate a process others
might find baffling:</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to get an item on the city council’s agenda</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to get reliable news and avoid information overload</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
to have an inner life when your outer life is fully booked</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>What’s
fun after fifty</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note
really pertinent: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>David
Mamet: “Age and treachery will always overcome youth and
exuberance.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being
aged allows you to enjoy the smaller things in life.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Consider
fun. Consider what’s not fun. (As a friend of mine wryly observed
on irritating occasions, “This is not fun. I’ve had fun. This is
not it.”) Consider what’s become fun only recently. Or what you
can’t believe you’re enjoying now because you would have hated it
ten years ago. And see where one of these lists takes you:</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fun
I never thought I’d have</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Slightly
guilty pleasures</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
it’s fun to spend time alone </i></span></span>
</li><li>
“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fun”
I don’t have to pretend to have anymore</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Deepening
pleasures</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>What
marriage teaches</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Adapt
the list of things marriage teaches to reflect your own (perhaps on
the occasion of an anniversary): “What this marriage has taught
me.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Consider
one of the life practices marriage has taught you and expand it. For
instance, if marriage has taught you to hold your peace a little
longer, you might try a list called “What I’ve learned to wait
for”—again, as a gift to surprise a spouse.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Or
feel free to write a campy, funny, satirical variation—maybe “What
I’ve learned not to do.” Though I make this suggestion with a
reminder not to make the edges too sharp!</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Other
mothers</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These
are the mothers (or adults?) who have helped develop you. They can
be neighbors or authors. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>items
on a list often generate new lists.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
There is a tendency for these lists to fall into chronological order.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>List
your “significant others”—mothers, fathers, teachers, guides,
instructive adversaries—by name, including one thing they did for
you that was formative in some way. Here are a few examples:</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Auntie
Ruth, who showed me that good humor can have an edge</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mrs.
Robidart, who bought more Girl Scout cookies than she could eat</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Louisa
May Alcott, with whom I spent many happy hours in my treehouse</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mrs.
Hinkson, who began every class with a song</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Jo,
who held up a mirror when I needed to see</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Where
the Spirit moves</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
times McEntyre would focus herself on the different parts of the
Trinity. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It’s
a good exercise to name the people and places where God is likely to
show up. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And then she quotes </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>John
Donne’s “</i></span></span><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44115/a-hymn-to-god-the-father"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Hymn to God the Father”</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
which </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
concludes each confessional stanza with this refrain: “When thou
hast done, thou has not done, for I have more.”</i></span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Consider
specifically where the Spirit has moved in your life and through your
days and adapt the above list to make it a personal inventory of
awareness. </i></span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Rename
the list and develop it in a slightly different direction—“Where
grace has been given” or “When God showed up” or “Small
surprises that made a big difference.” </i></span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Imagine
rewriting this list with a particular person or situation in mind—as
a message of comfort for someone who is ill; as a bit of religious
instruction for a child preparing for confirmation; as a celebratory
retrospective for a significant birthday</i></span></span></li></ul><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Appendix:</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Few Final Lists for Your General Enjoyment</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>What
the beach teaches</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>What
weddings require</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
benefits of bicycling</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>When
to call home</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Why
children enchant us</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Where
to dance</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>What
you get from a garden</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>How
to be happy in high school</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>What
leaders learn</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Listen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
manifesto for moving day</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>What
every adult should be able to do</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>What
teachers can tell you</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>What’s
worth waiting for</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Times
to practice trust</u></span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
can be dry. Lists can be demanding. Lists can be monotonous. Lists
can be revealing. Which of those statements do not belong?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marilyn
McEntyre notes that all are possible. In her book, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Make
a List</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
she concentrates on the last. In her book she concentrates on what do
they reveal. The book is written in three parts:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
Make a List?</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Listing
as a Way of Life</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Her
personal lists</i></span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each
part has several short chapters where she reveals some of her lists
and usually ends with a challenge to make your own list. Some of the
chapters includes titles like:</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<i>To
get at the questions behind the questions</i></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wanting
what you want: Lists that identify unidentified desires</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
Read?</i></span></span></li></ul>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each
chapter shows how a list can lead you deeper into knowing yourself,
knowing your friends and family, and knowing issues which surround
us.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
fault of this book is the repetitiveness. McEntyre has more than
enough topics to get you on the right track to make your lists. For
me, once I got the idea of what she was doing and then pointed me to
the types of subjects which a list could be used for, I was set.
When there was up to twenty subjects per part, I started to glaze
over.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
you expect a book about how to make ToDo lists more effective, this
book is not it. But if you are looking for a way to be introspective,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Make
A List</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
can be a good guide.</span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
lists do you currently make? What lists are you interested in making
now that you have read the book?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
the end of most of the chapters McEntyre has a project for the reader
to take on. Which ones did you find of interest? What did you
discover about yourself?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
of the functions of our sacred texts is to help us recognize
ourselves as characters in a much larger narrative than our own.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
When you read a sacred text, do you recognize that? What difference
does that make?</span></span></p><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Make
A List</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">book</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
work </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">towards
improving how you view yourself?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? In what context was religion talked about
in this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">hy
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p><br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b id="NewWords"> </b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marginalia:
marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be
scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles,
drolleries, or illuminations.</span></span></li></ul></div>
<div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Walden</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Henry David Thoreau</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Marie Kondo</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Letters
to a Young Poet</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Rainer Maria Rilke</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Night
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
Elie Wiesel</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dream
Work</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Jeremy Taylor</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Mind-Body Problem</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Rebecca Goldstein</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moby-Dick
by </span></span>
</li><li>
“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Litany
of Lament” </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
Joan de Vries</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>War
and Peace </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By
Leo Tolstoy</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Measure
of My Days </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
Scott-Maxwell</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Language
and Silence</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by George Steiner</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Beloved</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Toni Morrison</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hours
by Auden</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Death of Common Sense</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Philip Howard</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Little
Women</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Louise May Alcott</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Winnie-the-Pooh</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by AA Milne</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Odyssey</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Homer</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Accidental
Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Nadia Bolz-Weber </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Poor
Richard’s Almanac</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Benjamin Franklin’s</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: I list a lot</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: When you’ve lit the candle and said the prayer</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paying
attention is the first step toward love. Chp Introduction: Living by
Lists</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the functions of our sacred texts is to help us recognize
ourselves as characters in a much larger narrative than our own. Chp
Lists for life review</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Age
and treachery will always overcome youth and exuberance. David Mamet
interview with Bruce Weber, “THEATER; At 50, a Mellower David Mamet
May Be Ready to Tell His Story,” New York Times, Nov. 16, 1997.</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
Introduction: Living by Lists</li><li>
Part
I: Why Make a List? Lists serve a surprising variety of purposes.
Here are a few reasons to make them.</li><ul><li>
To
discover subtle layers of feeling</li><li>
To
name what you want</li><li>
To
clarify your concerns</li></ul><ul><li>
To
decide what to let go of</li><li>
To
help dispel a few fears</li><li>
To
claim what gives you joy</li></ul><ul><li>
To
find out what you still have to learn</li><li>
To
put new words to old experiences</li><li>
To
get at the questions behind the questions</li><li>
To
find out who’s inside</li><li>
To
play with possibilities</li><li>
To
identify complicating factors</li><li>
To
map the middle ground</li><li>
To
explore implications</li><li>
To
connect the dots</li><li>
To
get to your learning edge</li><li>
To
notice what you might have missed</li><li>
To
experience deep attention</li><li>
To
enjoy complete permission</li></ul><li>
Part
II: The Way of the List-Maker There
aren’t many “rules” in list-making, but there are reliable ways
to make lists useful, beautiful, and fun. Here are a few to try out.</li><ul><li>
Things
to do to the to-do list: Exploring priorities and intentions</li><li>
How
to do almost anything: How how-to lists help you learn how</li><li>
Playing
favorites: Lists that clarify values</li><li>
The
wonder of word lists: How word lists empower, educate, and amuse</li><li>
Allowing
lament: How lists open a space for sorrow</li><li>
How
a list becomes a poem: Lists that work in ways you hadn’t planned</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
a list becomes a prayer: When lists lead you to your longings</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
long second look: Lists that teach you how to look again</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Memento
mori: Lists that commemorate</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Switching
lenses: Lists that reframe</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Better
than a punching bag: Lists that open a safe space for anger</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lists
for life review: How lists help focus the backward glance</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cracking
open clichés: Lists that get behind the surfaces</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wanting
what you want: Lists that identify unidentified desires</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talking
points: Lists that illuminate your message</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thin
places and sacred spaces: Lists as guides to path-finding</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Love
letters: Lists that count the ways</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Litanies:
Lists that help you relax into prayer</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Summary
statements: Listing for retrospection</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
III: Play Lists. Lists
are a way of opening up “play space.” This section is an
invitation to play—to tinker with each other’s lists, to use the
ones provided here as templates for your own, to move lines around
and change the mood and marvel at your own ingenuity. Consider, as
you read these lists and the short reflections that follow each of
them, where whimsy, need, poetic inclinations, and playful
imagination might take you. </span></span>
</li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
List-Maker’s Master List</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
read?</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
tennis teaches</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A manifesto for amateurs</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
to defeat bureaucracy</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What’s
fun after fifty</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
marriage teaches</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Other
mothers</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where
the Spirit moves</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Appendix:</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Few Final Lists for Your General Enjoyment</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
the beach teaches</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
weddings require</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
benefits of bicycling</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
to call home</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
children enchant us</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where
to dance</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
you get from a garden</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
to be happy in high school</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
leaders learn</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Listen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
manifesto for moving day</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
every adult should be able to do</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
teachers can tell you</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What’s
worth waiting for</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Times
to practice trust</span></span></li></ul></ul>
<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://eerdword.com/make-a-list/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Make-List-Simple-Practice-Change/dp/0802882250"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AMarilyn+McEntyre&s=relevancerank&text=Marilyn+McEntyre&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35398516-make-a-list"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/53557.Marilyn_Chandler_McEntyre"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8028-7574-7"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Publisher’s
Weekly</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoUKuWC96K0"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>YouTube</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/view/28502/make-a-list"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Spirituality
and Practice</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://bobonbooks.com/2020/08/31/review-make-a-list/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Bob
on Books</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/article/marilyn-mcentyre-84-how-lists-can-change-your-life"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Princeton
Alumni Weekly</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://lutheranladiesconnectionwordpress.wordpress.com/2023/06/12/make-a-list-by-marilyn-mcentyre-book-review/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lutheran
Ladies Connection</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">BYU
Radio </span></span><a href="https://www.byuradio.org/db7b6577-4aae-41bb-967c-b46a9da59d3c/top-of-mind-with-julie-rose-make-a-list"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>interview</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Presbyterian
Outlook </span></span><a href="https://pres-outlook.org/2018/03/make-a-list-how-a-simple-practice-can-change-our-lives-and-open-our-hearts/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>magazine</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-46070809176779482002024-01-05T17:29:00.000-08:002024-01-13T19:23:11.465-08:00Nomadland<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiThweelijC-vmOs1qwIR4rCN-wVfikSfJf5V_sgcXpAQeEHxI-QmYW0zcdJZ_CbtYJrjyQQgPskIX-vbFfB-HQeQ014STyVnPVjDltcfwz8jPiY_lWfdXpI6UrmWdpT5P-aao9Y6Js0hJ6CXh0wum8-mDCCatjnZKSY-0mEetbJ-8gRwHP3zIPJpV2qdc/s1000/61ioETzTw4L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="658" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiThweelijC-vmOs1qwIR4rCN-wVfikSfJf5V_sgcXpAQeEHxI-QmYW0zcdJZ_CbtYJrjyQQgPskIX-vbFfB-HQeQ014STyVnPVjDltcfwz8jPiY_lWfdXpI6UrmWdpT5P-aao9Y6Js0hJ6CXh0wum8-mDCCatjnZKSY-0mEetbJ-8gRwHP3zIPJpV2qdc/s320/61ioETzTw4L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><b>Book: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century</b><br />
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#BookReferences">Book References</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/nomadland.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c64c3be7-7fff-5b07-10d8-5efe1947f7d6" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Jessica Bruder</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Libby from Sacramento Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9780393356311</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: December 24, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: January 5, 2024</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">288 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Biography, Book Group, Economy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: Low</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3½ out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author takes us through the lives of several people, principally
Linda May. They are vandwellers who travel from one seasonal job to
the next. They take a break each year to attended something called
the Rubber Tramp Rendezous. Here she talks about the camaraderie they
find with people in similar situations.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jessica
Bruder-author and a person who has traveled with many of the
characters</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Linda
May-Chief person who Bruder talks about. Houseless with a dream</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Silvianne
Delmars-author of a blog which details her wanderings</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Don
Wheeler-pseudonym. Was in legal battle with Amazon over working
conditions</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bob
Wells-RV/Van living guru. Has a book and web site</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lois
LaVonne-blog called </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Complete Flake.</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charlene
Swankie-another fried of Linda May</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gary-companion
to Linda May</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Places-See my<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WCSQK_3378L15j4Oms63g3Q7EAZhYguo/view?usp=drive_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Google Earth file:</a></u></span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hanna
Flats - Campground Host in San Bernardino</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mission
Viejo - San Diego where daughter lived.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Empire,
NV - Town where gypsum was mined and processed.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fernley,
NV - Amazon warehouse</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fallon,
NV - a location where many of the Fernley campers stayed.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quartzsite,
AZ - Site of the annual Rubber Tramp Rendezous </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sherwin
Creek Campground - another place May was host at</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ehrenberg
- where Bob Wells went to after RTR. By the Colorado River</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Douglas,
AZ - Where May’s property was</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Campbellsville,
KY - Amazon warehouse where May worked. <br /></span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:</b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
Val in Book Group</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
November 20, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book: 2019</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: Book group selection. Popular book a few
years ago.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it? Maybe learn to be a bit less planned
and less rooted</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Going
into reading </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Nomadlands</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I thought it would be about a pack of people in RV’s who wandered
around the desert, sometimes the mountains, occasionally finding
work, but mostly having a good time. That is not the object of this
book. It is about people who were squeezed out of their homes for
various reasons. They live in their vans and trailers going from one
work place to the next. The labor is body-breaking.</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note
and this is a spoiler: Linda May ends up trying to build her
Earthship house on her property in Douglas, AZ. The first thing she
does is put up a greenhouse so she can grow her own food. While she
is away, the PVC pip melts in the Arizona sun. But because she is in
the movie </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Nomadland</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
she earns enough money to buy a place in Taos, NM and build her home
there. </span></span><a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a35538486/nomadland-fern-true-story-jessica-bruder-linda-bob-swankie-now/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Esquire
Magazine, April 20, 2021</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Foreword</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>AS
I WRITE THIS, they are scattered across the country— In Drayton,
North Dakota, a former San Francisco cabdriver, sixty-seven, labors
at the annual sugar beet harvest. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This opening line gives me the feeling of Woody Gutherie’s song
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Deportee.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
people who she is following are mostly formerly economically middle
class people. Some lower middle, some higher. But all</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
are driving away from the impossible choices that face what used to
be the middle class.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And that is the choice between food or medical work, energy bill or
mortgage, …</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
choice they make is to cut their ties to the land and get rid of
their house. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Some
call them “homeless.” The new nomads reject that label.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
They seem to like the title of “Houseless”.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
last free place in America is a parking spot.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Part
1</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>1
The Squeeze Inn</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
starts with Linda May towing her trailer, The Squeeze Inn, to a new
campsite where she will be a campground host. The author is in front
of her. Description of a campground host-not as glamorous as it
sounds. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
a low minimum wage, it becomes almost impossible to rent a decent
house let alone buy one. So many people …</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
moved into vans, RVs, and trailers, traveled from place to place
following good weather, and kept their gas tanks full by working
seasonal jobs. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Seasonal jobs can be campground host, working for Amazon, and
processing food.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even
with the hardships, some like May felt the urge to wander, to be free
of the economic pressures which surrounded her. She had been living
with her daughter, in cramped spaces. The trailer had set her free.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seasonal
work at Amazon had injured her-no insurance on seasonal jobs.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
the trip up to her campsite in San Bernardino mountains, she lost
both of her propane tanks-was able to retrieve one. Her thinking was
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>That’s
a $20 propane tank, and I am a priceless person.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Better to lose the tank than herself.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
friend was going to co-host with her, Silvianne Delmars. The vendor
running the Forest Service Campgrounds is California Land
Management-I also have a friend who is a campground host as well with
them. Describes some of the stories and tasks they have as hosts. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
a complaint about unpaid hours and work conditions, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hume,
Princess and Stony Creek Campgrounds, as well as Ten-Mile and
Landslide, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Campgrounds
were talked about. This is in my backyard.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
got to know May better. Bruder asks the question, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
does a hardworking sixty-four-year-old woman end up without a house
or a permanent place to stay, relying on unpredictable low-wage work
to survive? </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That
question and how to survive in that situation is the themes of the
book, not so much the romance of being a senior nomad.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>2
The End</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More
background on May. She had reached the end where she could not move
in with family and the funds were not enough to support her. With all
of her experience, she was hardly making ends meet. She wonders, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
can anybody afford to grow old?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
has a heart for those who are out on their luck. So w\she found ways
to help them.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
found something which would provide a long-term house: </span></span><a href="https://earthship.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Earthship</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Earthship:
a passive-solar home built using discarded materials such as cans and
bottles, with dirt-filled tires for its load-bearing walls. Invented
by radical New Mexico architect Michael Reynolds.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
To make this dream come true, she needed to find some low-cost land
with adequate water. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>3
Surviving America</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about how thriving towns, such as Empire, NV can suddenly be made
into ghost towns. In this case it was the victim of the ripple effect
from the 2008 housing bust. People lost money. Could not buy houses.
Building materials were no longer in demand. Mine which made gypsum
closed. Empire was a company town and it folded.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
the other hand, Amazon was booming and hiring. The difference was
that construction paid well; Amazon was barely above minimum wage.
Those who were in the nomad groups were contacted by an Amazon entity
called </span></span><a href="https://livecampwork.com/amazon-camperforce-amazon-jobs-for-rvers/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>CamperForce</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Long hours, walking up to 15 miles a day on concrete floors, bending
and reaching.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon
is not the only seasonal work: concession stands at Winter League,
guards at oil installations, Christmas trees, fireworks, …</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No
real numbers on how many people have this type of life. Uptick after
the 2008 economy blow up. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Goes
through several of the stories about how these people ended up being
workampers instead of tooling around enjoying their retirement years.
Some lost houses in 2008, some were divorced, others made bad
investments, and still others had been injured and could not work
their normal jobs.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
reviews that the concept of retirement is relatively new. She then
has several references to retirement going back to the 1700’s and
Thomas Paine. This is a relatively short section.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>4
Escape Plan</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about Bob Wells and his influence on the house-to-RV movement. His
goal is to eliminate the single biggest expense of most households.
The 2008 meltdown caused people to seek after his advice on how to
scale down their shelter needs.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
general sentiment is that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They’d
upheld their end of the social contract, yet the system had let them
down.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I think this is what gave rise to the disenchantment of America.
Trump has used this sentiment to propel himself.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
suppose every book has some sort of factual flaw in it. It makes you
wonder about the authenticity of the rest of the book, even if the
flaw is minor. Bruder talks about living in a </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Honda
Prius.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It is a Toyota Prius. Wonder where the editor was?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
difference between the Dust Bowl migrants and the Vandewllers is that
the Dust Bowl folks had a vision of when things returned to normal.
The Vandwellers had given up on this being normal and were
establishing a new normal.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
online community of Vandwellers goes back to November 2000 with a
single post. Others posted on Yahoo and the community grew. One of
these is a Facebook group </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>called
</i></span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/Vandwellers"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>“VanDwellers:
Live in Your Van.”</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Reddit has a group of 26,000 members. And then there are various web
pages which help you, such as identifying which WalMarts will let you
stay in their parking lot. In 2011 Bob Wells organized the first
in-person get together called Rubber Tramp Rendezous (RTR). This was
held in Quartzsite.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bob
made extreme frugality sound like a path to freedom : liberation
instead of deprivation.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This sound like the Shaker hymn, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Simple
Gifts:</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'Tis
the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'Tis
the gift to come down where we ought to be,</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>And
when we find ourselves in the place just right,</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'Twill
be in the valley of love and delight.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">May
finds an RV cheap, which needs fixing up. She is now in business. She
went to work for Amazon.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Part
2</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>5
Amazon Town</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
campground host for Linda May: Junction Campground, east of Yosemite.
Enjoyed the job. Lasted that summer until the Rim Fire closed
Yosemite. Next job was in Fernley, NV at Amazon. Brochures made it
seem both strenuous and exciting. Walking and stress of fast paced
work with long hours. Before engaging in full-time Amazon work,
Amazon had a series of half day work-hardening sessions. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Experiences
of May with fellow campers. Also the various actions against
Amazon-static charges, back injuries, … </span></span>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Saturday
Night Live</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>:Chris
Farley plays a vandweller named Matt Foley</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">May
had some initial health issues which caused her to pass out. This put
an end to the first season with Amazon. She would be back. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>6
The Gathering Place</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about the Rubber Tramp Rendezous at Quartzsite. Gives background on
Quartzsite. Hard times had hit the town. Different environment.
Interesting comment was made that before air conditioning, people
would flock to the desert. Now, if it hits 100, people leave. RTR is
a time to reconnect with friends who are similar.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>7
The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Follows
May on her way to RTR. Talks about the atmosphere of the RTR-generous
and willing to help others. Seminars on how to be a vandweller. After
RTR or maybe for some of the days, the Quartzsite Sports, Vacation
and RV Show happened. This was more commercial in nature, but the
vandwellers would also pick up information and stuff from there as
well. Seasonal employers were there as well.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then things started to disperse after two weeks. Some banded together
and went to certain spots others just left for their own
destinations. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blog:
The </span></span><a href="https://completeflake.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Complete
Flake</u></i></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>8
Halen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Halen
is Bruder’s camping set up-think of the whimsical name for a van
Halen.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Much
of what I found made workamping sound like a sunny lifestyle, or even
a quirky hobby, rather than a survival strategy in an era when
Americans were getting priced out of traditional housing and
struggling to make a living wage.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Summation of her book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
cites a December 11, 2011 article called </span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/12/22/144149775/amazons-workampers-fill-orders-during-the-holidays"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Amazon's
Seasonal 'Workampers' Fill Holiday Orders</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She suggests this is a fluff piece as there is no downside mentioned.
There is another NPR article after this book is written which talks
about the stress of working for Amazon. December 22, 2018: </span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/12/22/679546929/working-the-holidays-as-an-amazon-worker"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Working
The Holidays As An Amazon Worker.</u></i></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Working
for Amazon is stressful and tiring, hard on the body. But most of the
worker’s attitude is that they are not whiners and they want to do
the job. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Positive
thinking, after all, is an all-American coping mechanism, practically
a national pastime.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Bruder’s conclusion is that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
nomads I’d been interviewing for months were neither powerless
victims nor carefree adventurers.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
was not fully integrated into the vandweller’s life since she did
not have a van/RV. So she got Halen. This enabled her to be where the
RV’ers were. Talked about getting it ready for extended stays. She
talks about the preparations. But then also once on the road, she
found that living the life is different than hearing about it. You
need to deal with it yourself.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
America, if you don’t have an address, you’re not a real person.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This realization came when her doctor could not give a physical
address for her.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Described
her beginning stay with Swankie. Then they went to Burder’s second
RTR. This time in a van, not a tent.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
noticed something: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>So
why was the crowd so white?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Some of it is that camping itself attracts more whites than those of
color. Also if you are in almost any setting, a person of color tends
to stick out. Vandwellers do not like attention. Think about the
incidents of unarmed blacks being shot by the police.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Bruder returned to her home. She felt like </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
walls are close, the windows are covered, almost everything you need
is within arm’s reach. It’s womblike.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>9
Some Unbeetable Experiences</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
now had camped and done an extended stay with the vandwellers. But
another facet she had not experienced was the work they did. She
decided to work processing sugar beets in Minnesota and North Dakota.
She worked on a processing floor-12 hour days, shoveling beets onto a
conveyor line. She described the work.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then to Amazon in Texas. Taking Tylenol was normal to cut down on the
pain. Talks about her time in this Amazon facility and what it
involved. Also the dangers of working there.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
stayed on the job for a week.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Part
3</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>10
The H Word</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wrote
about what was going on with LaVonne Ellis. Being on verge of
homeless instead of houseless. Payday loans, and the issue of debt.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
idea of choosing one’s destiny, as it turned out, was a big deal. I
heard this time and time again—no matter how narrow the options one
had to pick from, choice was key.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a growing batch of local laws making it hard to be without a
permanent residence.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>11
Homecoming</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">May’s
family is now forced to live in an old RV. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More
on the RTR. Real ID driver's license presented a challenge. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Now
many DMV clerks had started looking up each address online. If it
belonged to a business, they demanded an actual residential address.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Downside
of vandwelling: if something happens to you, chances are that there
are no friends or family close by. You may die and nobody would find
out for a while. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Where
do people go when they’re too old to camp or live in a van?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">May
fell sick and other vandwellers took care of her. Another person
broke their arm and others helped her out. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">May
had kept searching for a piece of land to build her Earthship. She
found one near Douglas, Az. May also had a somewhat partner, Gary-not
me. Bruder agreed to visit the property and livestream it. Bruder
gives background on Douglas. May is satisfied with the property-she
will need to visit another day as she is working at Amazon. Bruder
was wondering what kind of life it would be for May? Desolate. Very
few neighbors. Dry except for flash floods, occasional drug runners. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">May
felt that the stuff Amazon was sending out was worthy only of
landfill. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Coda:
The Octopus in the Coconut</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
catches us up with the main characters in this story to the point of
RTR 2017.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Swankie
wants to hike the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>800-mile
</i></span></span><a href="https://aztrail.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Arizona
Trail</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
at the age of 72.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">LaVonne
Ellis has published a book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
herself will not be attending RTR 2017 because she is trying to
finish up her book. She notes that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
story keeps unfolding into the future, but at some point you step
away.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
lives in New York and realizes that if she opens her eyes, there are
many vandwellers stealth camping around the City.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
parts of this life are you willing to give up, so you can keep on
living?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like
before, she goes through trade-offs of those who live at the margin.</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Gini
coefficient</u></i></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
catching up with Linda May-she has made it to her property in Douglas
and is happy. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
land is ready for her now—one perfect acre, something to build on.</i></span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Nomadland</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
was not the book I was expecting. The expectation was that the book
would follow a group of people who went from one park-like scene to
another, exploring parts of America in an Americanized Bedouin style.
Maybe with a few hardships thrown in.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead,
this is a book about people who have very few resources. They have
lost most of their assets through job loss, divorce, medical issues
or recession. Many of them lost their assets through no fault of
their own. These are people who ask questions like: do I go to the ER
instead of my doctor? Do I pay the energy bill or eat?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These
are people who realized what Bob Wells was saying: their most
expensive asset was their home. Could they live some other way? The
answer to this question is to become a vandweller and drift from one
seasonal job to another.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
follows the stories of several people who have taken this route. She
shows these houseless-not homeless-people are not bums or shiftless.
Rather they are working hard behind the scenes at places like Amazon,
National Forest campgrounds, and food production. The author shows a
certain attraction to this lifestyle.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
does talk a little bit about the hardships these people face: long
hard labor in almost all of the jobs they work at. The uncertainties
of where they will be able to earn enough money to travel to the next
place, … What she does not talk about are things like if something
goes seriously wrong, what happens to them? Things like they are no
longer able to put in the back-breaking hours at an Amazon warehouse?
What happens if they get cancer and cannot travel and require regular
treatments? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All
in all, Bruder has written an eye-opening book. Eye-opening from the
standpoint of what happens to people when they do not earn enough to
even rent a house? How vandwelling can be an acceptable way of living
and how there is camaraderie in living alongside those who are in a
similar predicament. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Nomadland
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for these eye-openers. Read it for the facts presented and how people
can be frustrated with the status quo.</span></span></p>
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<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
this book what you expected?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the main questions Bruder asks is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
does a hardworking sixty-four-year-old woman end up without a house
or a permanent place to stay, relying on unpredictable low-wage work
to survive?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How do you answer this question? In America, we grow up with “if
you work hard, you will be successful.” Does this book falsify this
assumption?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
residual question is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
can anybody afford to grow old?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
does Bruder talk about the town of Empire, Nevada? What lesson is she
trying to share with us?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
talks about those who adopt to being vandwellers that they </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>are
driving away from the impossible choices that face what used to be
the middle class.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What choices are they facing? Do you think their responses are good
ones? What other response do you think they had? How would you
respond to these choices?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
found that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
America, if you don’t have an address, you’re not a real person.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What difficulties would a person have without a physical address?
What other issues would a person who is a vandweller face?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bob
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Wells]
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>made
extreme frugality sound like a path to freedom : liberation instead
of deprivation.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How can simplifying your possessions lead to liberation? How does
this correspond to other simplicity movements, such as Marie Kondo or
the Swedish Death Cleaning? Is there a Christian element to this
forced simplicity?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
book is now 7 years old. Bruder is making the case that vandwelling
is becoming the new normal. Do you think it has become that? Is being
houseless acceptable in our society?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is
vandwelling an inherently white prerogative? How come Bruder found
that almost nobody of color were in the vandwelling groups? What
obstacles would you face if a person of color was a vandweller?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Has
your attitude towards Amazon changed any since reading the book? How?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruder
mentions the Gini coefficient which tries to measure the income/weath
disparity from that where a country has its wealth equally
distributed. A chart from 2020 showed that the United States has a
45-50% disparity vs Canada which has a 30%. Does this disparity
contribute to what the vandweller’s experience? Is this a cause for
concern?
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
parts of this life are you willing to give up, so you can keep on
living? </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And then my standard question of: How do you want your life to change
because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Nomadland</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this book bring any revelation to you?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most real?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
there anybody you would consider religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did they show it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
the book overtly religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did it affect the book's story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
central ideas does the author present?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
they personal, sociological, global, political, economic, spiritual,
medical, or scientific</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
implications for you, our nation or the world do these ideas have?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
these idea’s controversial? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
whom and why?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is the culture described in this book different than where we live?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
economic or political situations are described?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author examine economics and politics, family traditions, the
arts, religious beliefs, language or food?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393356311/about-the-book/reading-guide"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Publisher’s
reader’s guide</u></span></span></span></a></p> <br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Opprobrium:
harsh criticism or censure.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Workampers:
Those who follow the work, such as at Amazon, who RV or live in
trailers</span></span></li></ul>
<div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://silviannewanders.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Silvianne
Wanders</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
blog by Silvianne Delmars</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1170964.Woodswoman_I?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=UZLkGZaz0N&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Woodswoman:
Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Anne LaBastille</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Walden</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Henry David Thoreau</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7696135-making-ideas-happen?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=FwdCBxJUbt&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Making
Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Scott Belsky</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Agrarian
Justic</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">e
by Thomas Paine</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Fixed Period</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Anthony Trollope</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Great Risk Shif</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t
by Jacob S. Hacker</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://cheaprvliving.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>CheapRVLiving.com</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Galloping
Bungalows</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by David A. Thornburg</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Grapes of Wrath</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by John Stainbeck</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8346709-venus-with-biceps?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=A87dlBlqcm&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Venus
with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by David L. Chapman</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252979.The_Secret_Symbols_of_the_Dollar_Bill_A_Closer_Look_At_the_Hidden_Magic_and_Meaning_of_the_Money_You_Use_Every_Day?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_115"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>The
Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill: A Closer Look at the Hidden Magic
and Meaning of the Money You Use Every Day</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by David Ovason</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18858458-how-to-live-in-a-car-van-or-rv--and-get-out-of-debt-travel-and-find-tr?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_85"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>How
to Live in a Car, Van or RV . . . And Get Out of Debt, Travel &
Find True Freedom</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Bob Wells</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1439.Hamlet_s_Mill?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Hamlet's
Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its
Transmission Through Myth</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Giorgio de Santillana</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Travels
with Charley</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by John Steinbeck</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Blue
Highways</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by William Least Heat- Moon</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Desert
Solitaire</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Edward Abbey, Into</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wild</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Cheryl Strayed</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Into
the Wild</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Jon Krakauer</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26662140-where-life-is-better-an-unsentimental-american-journey?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=SgSKCafkpg&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Where
Life is Better; an Unsentimental American Journey</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by James Rorty</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in
Disaster</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Rebecca Solnit</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Sheltering Sky</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Paul Bowles</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Slaughterhouse
Five</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Kurt Vonnegut</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33290353-the-red-feather-christmas-tree?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Fo9WMcsMr2&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>The
Red-Feather Christmas Tree</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by LaVonne Ellis</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Facebook-</span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/Vandwellers"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>“VanDwellers:
Live in Your Van.”</u></i></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: AS I WRITE THIS, they are scattered across the country— In
Drayton, North Dakota, a former San Francisco cabdriver, sixty-seven,
labors at the annual sugar beet harvest.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: This land is ready for her now—one perfect acre, something to
build on.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
can anybody afford to grow old? Chp 2 The End</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
America, if you don’t have an address, you’re not a real person.
Chp 8 Halen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
parts of this life are you willing to give up, so you can keep on
living? Chp Coda: The Octopus in the Coconut</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Foreword
xi</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
1</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1
The Squeeze Inn 3</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2
The End 29</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3
Surviving America 39</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4
Escape Plan 69</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
2</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5
Amazon Town 95</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6
The Gathering Place 115</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7
The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous 135</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">8
Halen 163</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9
Some Unbeetable Experiences 183</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
3</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">10
The H Word 201</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">11
Homecoming 207</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coda:
The Octopus in the Coconut 243</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Acknowledgments
253</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Notes
257</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<b id="References">References:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393356311"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://www.jessicabruder.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomadland:_Surviving_America_in_the_Twenty-First_Century"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Bruder"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nomadland-Surviving-America-Twenty-First-Century/dp/039324931X"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jessica-Bruder/author/B001JS6OKM?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nomadland-jessica-bruder/1125747895"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212124-nomadland?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_9"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/231013.Jessica_Bruder"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">New
York Times </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/books/review/nomadland-jessica-bruder.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Los
Angeles Review of Books</span></span><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-steady-diet-of-low-expectations-a-conversation-with-jessica-bruder-author-of-nomadland/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
interview</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NPR
</span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/09/25/553532591/nomadland-tracks-rising-number-of-americans-living-on-the-road"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/all/nomadland/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Literary
Hub</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kirkus
</span></span><a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jessica-bruder/nomadland/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIJmLX0k4Yw"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>YouTube</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a35538486/nomadland-fern-true-story-jessica-bruder-linda-bob-swankie-now/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Esquire
Magazine, April 20, 2021</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.vulture.com/2021/02/nomadlands-linda-may-on-finally-settling-down.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Vulture,
February 25, 2021</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">JacquiWine’s
</span></span><a href="https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2021/07/15/nomadland-by-jessica-bruder/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">J</span></span><a href="https://www.joblogz.com/2022/02/18/nomadland-by-jessica-bruder-book-review-contains-minor-spoilers/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>o
Blogz</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All
the Books I Can Read </span></span><a href="https://1girl2manybooks.wordpress.com/2022/04/04/review-nomadland-by-jessica-bruder/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>blog</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">KathyrnReed
</span></span><a href="https://kathrynreed.com/a-great-read/book-review-nomadland-so-much-better-than-the-movie/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>blog</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ploughshares
</span></span><a href="https://blog.pshares.org/review-nomadland-by-jessica-bruder/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/when-poets-pray.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/when-poets-pray.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> : <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/when-poets-pray.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2024/01/when-poets-pray.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author:
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Edition:
epub on Libby from </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher:
Eerdmans</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ISBN:
9780802876584 (ISBN10: 0802876587)</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Start
Date: November 23, 2023</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read
Date: December 7, 2023</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">160
pages</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Genre:
Christianity</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Language
Warning: None</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rated
Overall: 3½ out of 5</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Religion:
Christianity</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Religious
Quality: 4 out of 5</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Christianity-Teaching
Quality: 4 out of 5</span></span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author has submitted 24 poems from various poets-some known, some
unknown. One was her own. She then analyzes them. Not so much for
structure or style but how the poet has issued a prayer. Most of the
poems are not formal prayers, but what would be expressed as an
expression of the soul. There is an introduction explaining what she
is trying to do. The ending chapter gives practical advice on poems
and prayer.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book: November 16, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: I had heard a piece about Richard Wilbur
on Mars Hill Audio. When I was looking on Libby for a book by him or
his poems, I came across this book. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it? Poets seem to see things in a
different light than I do. I am hoping that this book will give a
different slant.</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Introduction</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Goes
through how we have learned to pray. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Poetry
and prayer are closely related. Even poems that make no pretense of
broaching the sacred invite us to look closely and listen to words,
to notice how they trigger associations and invite the mind to play
with meaning, how they summon feelings that take us by surprise.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the lessons of poetry is that it slows us down, stops us so we can
ponder.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Not
every poem is a prayer, but I have come to believe that poetry, even
for the angry and the disenchanted, takes its inspiration and energy
from the Spirit who teaches us to pray.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Bible is a rich, essential, and sufficient resource for learning to
pray. But it’s not a rule book; it is a living word to a living
people who are also meant to keep learning from one another in the
midst of the long conversation between faith and culture.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Not a rule book? But it does contain rules and guidelines for living.
Still I think what McEntyre is saying is that as we get closer to
God, there is less of a need for rules and more in learning to live.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
book is presented to us not as an analysis of poems and prayers but
as reflections.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Natures
God</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Hildegard
of Bingen: From Meditations</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
poem does not do much for me. It talks from God’s perspective and
ends with Him saying </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
am the yearning for good.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But when I read it the first time, I echoed the yearning for good and
the parallelism of God’s desires and when I am at my best, my like
desire.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre
says that she</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
discovered a subtle difference between listening for and listening
to. I learned listening as an intentional disposition, attitude,
readiness.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>what
“comes” in quiet times when our intention is directed toward God
is worth our attention.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
To learn this.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
points out the sequence of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
am</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’s.
Echoing Moses’ Exodus introduction to God.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>if
we wish to see God, we should look at what happens in the natural
world and in humans at their best and most vulnerable.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What is she saying here? When a mountain lion takes down a deer,
that is how God operates? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
see God in what is near would be misleading if we forgot the cosmic
farness and the mystery of the “immortal, invisible” one “whose
robe is the light, whose canopy space.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lucille
Clifton: "spring song"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seems
like this poem is more of an ode to an ecological Jesus. McEntyre
notes that in this short poem, Jesus is mentioned four times. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Part
of the grace of Trinitarian faith is that we can address God under
more than one aspect, taking refuge in one when another is undergoing
theological scrutiny. But eventually that same Trinitarian doctrine
requires that we come to terms with whatever aspect of God, or
particular claims about God, we’ve been avoiding. I was summoned
back in very specific ways to Jesus.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Good thoughts by McEntyre.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Walter
Chalmers Smith: "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
have only thought of this as a hymn, not as a prayer of honor and
joy.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Robert
Frost:</u></span></span><a href="https://poets.org/poem/prayer-spring"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
"A Prayer in Spring"</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre
thinks of a Wendell Berry Poem, </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>And
we pray, not</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> for
new earth or heaven, but to be </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>quiet
in heart, and in eye, </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>clear.
What we need is here</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
of the functions of prayer is to bring us into the present.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is done by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
small discipline of quieting body and mind is how we commonly “come
into the presence” of God, who is always present, and into the
present moment. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She then notes what </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>T.
S. Eliot recognized as “distracted from distraction by
distraction.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
talks about the phrase:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
happy in the bees.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She takes this as Frost being content with the simple things. He has
calmed down enough to notice the bees and appreciate them. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Wendell
Berry: "Prayer after Eating"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
say grace before we eat a meal, with the appreciation for the meal to
be served. This is a prayer after a meal with praise for the meal and
praise for the provider of the meal. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Blessing
is freely and abundantly given, whether we acknowledge it or not, but
when we do, it behooves us to recognize what we commonly call a “debt
of gratitude.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
last part is the kicker-hoping that one is worthy of the meal you
just took part in. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Being
made worthy, as the verb suggests, isn’t something we can do alone,
but only with God’s help and each other’s. God’s help has
already been given; grace abounds</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Joy
Harjo: "Eagle Poem"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Poem/prayer
of a Muskogee Indian. This poem did not resonate with me.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Wrestling</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>John
Donne: "Holy Sonnet XIV"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Poem
is full of paradoxes-not a weakness, but a strength. They reflect the
paradoxes we find in trying to describe God. The words are 17th
century and can mean something different than we in the 21st century
think-usually stronger than weaker. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
may be among the “good people” that Flannery O’Connor
acerbically recognized as inured to grace and in need of a rude
awakening.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
There is a sympathy for the sinner in the poem. There is Luther’s
insistence </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>that
an adequate understanding of what Christ undertook requires an effort
to fathom the depth and horror of sin.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Gerard
Manley Hopkins: "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord" </u></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reminds
me of the Psalms. Hopkins argues his case before a just God. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Rabbi
Zusya, who tells his congregation that when he stands before God, he
will not be asked, “Why were you not Moses?”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The question is, why are you not yourself? (note to Gary: Who is
</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zusha_of_Hanipol"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Rabbi
Zusya</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?)</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most
of the lines are lament, except for the last: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mine,
O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>SAID:
Psalm (from 99 Psalms)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">SAID
is an Iranian born poet who lives in Germany. He uses Jewish, Moslem
and Christian thinking as a background to all of his poems. Poem is
full of imperatives. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See</i></span></span><a href="about:blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>
www.bobcornwall.com.2013/10/99-psalms-said-review.html</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Marilyn
McEntyre: "Assurance"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another
poem which did not speak to me.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Praying</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>George
Herbert: "The Call"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
poem moves me; the explanation does not.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Thomas
Merton: "The Candlemas Procession"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While
the explanation does not seem to add for me, the poem strikes me.
Maybe because my House Church has begun to study Acts and the tongues
of fire imagery reflects a vision of Pentecost.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Denise
Levertov: "The Avowal"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Galway
Kinnell: "Prayer"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scott
Cairns: "Possible Answers to Prayer"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Mary
Oliver: "Praying"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
poem/prayer reminds me of Anne Dillard’s injunction about being
there. There is a sense of I no longer have to be bound by hurry, but
stop and observe all and find the beauty which God put there. Is
there beauty in a mosquito? Cockroach? Bermuda? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Anything—weeds,
small stones—can occasion that grace.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Then McEntyre says: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>prayerful
awareness doesn’t depend on beauty. </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
practice of noticing opens the heart to gratitude and leads, at least
for this poet and for many who pray, to an impulse to address the
Source of what has been seen.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Prayer is getting in touch with God. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Marin
Sorescu: "Prayer" </u></span></span>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Witnessing</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>T.
S. Eliot: From "The Dry Salvages" </u></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Richard
Wilbur: From "The Eye" </u></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is poet is the reason why I checked out this book. I could not find a
copy of the poem. Who is Lucy in the poem? This is a reference to
Dante’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Comedia</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
reason why I was interested in reading Wilbur was that Mars Hill
Audio did a piece on him. They pointed out that Wilbur concentrates
on the ordinary, bringing out what we take for granted, a person on
the bus, a flower by the sidewalk, … McEntyre does the same within
the framework of prayer. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Francisco
X. Alarcon: "L. A. Prayer"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
poem was written during the riots in Los Angeles after the verdicts
concerning the policemen who beat Rodney King verdict. The formatting
reminds me of some of the things I have read of John Cage recently.
There are a couple of phrases of McEntyre which caused me to ponder:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
more I read this poem, the more I recognize how powerfully it
reminds me what it costs to be a “peacemaker</i></span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
pray for peace is to pray for the courage to show up and bring peace
to where there is no peace</i></span></span></p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Anna
Kamienska: "Those Who Carry"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
poem-blessing teaches us that human activity, even, or maybe
particularly, the common sort can be blessed by God. The poem talks
about a man who carries a piano to its destination, a man and the
bundle of firewood, even lunatics with their baby carriages can be
blessed. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Blessing
is a liturgical act, a spoken prayer—usually in the mysterious
subjunctive—and also a way of seeing and responding that imparts as
it witnesses. It is an attitude, like the “quality of mercy,”
which “blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Appreciation
requires imagination. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
McEntyre talks about seeing things through other people’s vision. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Remembering
him is a reminder of what recovery requires, and of how many are
quietly walking that hard road a day at a time.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
We forget a person’s efforts until something jars us to memory. In
this case, the poem reminded McEntyre of a piano mover who did just
that.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Michael
Chitwood: "On Being Asked to Pray for a Van"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
poem seems to be written in a way to make fun of prayer letters. He
receives a prayer letter saying their van is breaking down and they
need a new one. The poem prays for each part to be fixed. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
McEntyre reads it more that God is concerned with each little thing
and prayer should be made that way. She notes Anne</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Lamott’s simple typology of prayer: all prayers, she suggests, are
elaborations of three words: “Help, Thanks, Wow!” Prayers for
help, she and others insist, may be uttered in all times and places,
because we always need help.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She references the scene in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fiddler
on the Roof</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
where the rabbi is asked if there is a blessing for sewing machines.
The Rabbi says there is a blessing for everything. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Arundhati
Roy </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">notes
that God is not only the God of the Universe, but also </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
of small things.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The sparrow and the grass as well as the stars. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
answer to the question often asked in desperation or
exasperation—“Where is God?”—is always and simply, “Here.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre
says that our prayers need to be specific like poems are. Rather than
general. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Prayer
is partly a practice of paying attention to what is, and partly a
practice of participation</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Anonymous
Truck Driver's Prayer: by a Young Ghanaian Christian</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
prayer/poem is personal. This person drives a truck which is prone to
breaking down on some pretty risky roads. He asks God to take care of
the truck and himself. It is also a prayer of confession about the
temptations he has to take short cuts. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre’s
conclusion from this prayer? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
can practice God’s presence in cubicles and behind grocery carts
and in library carrels, giving thanks as we go for small obstacles
avoided, temptations overcome, potential disasters averted.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Known
and Knowing</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Psalm
139:1-12 125</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Search
me! The start of being humble before God. The Psalmist includes that
we do not know what we want. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Reciting
God’s own attributes and acts is a curious thing to do in prayer.
But as a reminder of who God is and who we are, recalling the ways
that God is present to us helps us situate ourselves rightly before
the One without whom there is nothing.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
are not the actors or viewers, but the acted upon.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Praying
with Poems, Praying through Poems: An Afterword</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is McEntyre’s summary of her thoughts. She feels that poetry is a
pathway into prayer. It can help us sort through our thoughts and
delve deeper into what faces us. She provides some practices for
writing poems/prayers. There are several of them a couple which I
thought were:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Choose
a poem for your own funeral and write a short explanation of your
choice to those who may have to organize it. Emphasize words or
phrases in the poem that you hope to leave as part of your legacy of
faith.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Compose
another verse to a favorite hymn</i></span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
did not start </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
looking to read </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
Poets Pray.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I had heard a piece on Richard Wilbur on </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mars
Hill Audio.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In my search, I saw this book had one of his poems, so I read it.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
Poets Pray</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
endeavors to show us how poems can be prayers. McEntyre gives us the
texts to 24 short poems-some known, some unknown. She then analyzes
them to show how the poem expresses a prayer. Some poets selected
might be surprised that someone considers their poem a prayer.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
book is written for the non-technical person, such as myself. Many of
the poems resonated with me, which is surprising. I generally do not
“get” poetry. Her analysis is easy to follow, touching on how the
poet is trying to reach beyond themselves. The poems are divided into five groups: Nature’s God, Wrestling, Praying, Witnessing, and Known
and Knowing. So she covers a broad spectrum of the types of prayer.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
you are looking for a book on how to prayer or a book about poetry,
this is not it. It is a book which tries to show the connection
between poems which expose a soul and prayer. It is worth the read,
if for no other reason to examine the poems she has selected.</span></span></p>
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<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre
says the one of purposes of poetry is that it causes us to slow down
and reflect on the words and thoughts expressed. How do you read
poetry? Did this book help you slow down and reflect when you read
this kind of writing?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
poems have you come across which you found caused you to use them as
a prayer? Sometimes these poems are “hidden” as hymns. WHat hymns
causes you to reach outside of yourself?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author says that the Bible </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>not
a rule book; it is a living word to a living people who are also
meant to keep learning from one another in the midst of the long
conversation between faith and culture.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Do you agree with her statement? How does this statement change how
you read the Bible?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Part
of the grace of Trinitarian faith is that we can address God under
more than one aspect.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Does this make sense? Do you need to address certain prayers to
certain persons of the Godhead? Does it matter? She goes on to say
that it may help us in our prayers to identify with a certain person
of God. How so?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the things which we encounter when dealing with Christian people
is the paradox of how can so bad people be “good” Christians? In
the John Donne poem, these paradoxes get exposed. How do you deal
with paradoxes both in poetry and religion?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some
of the poems/prayers talk about the small things of life. McEntyre
quotes </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Arundhati
Roy </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">about
that God is also the God </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
of small things.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What in the poems inspire you to consider the small things of life
are important to God? How does that change your prayer habits?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">McEntyre
ends the book with practices which may help with your prayer life.
Which ones resonated with you? Which ones will you use?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
Poets Pray</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this book work as a spiritual guide?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
poem(s) was important to you?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
God is viewed?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p> <br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Koan:
a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate
the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Espials:
the action of watching or catching sight of something or someone or
the fact of being seen.</span></span></li></ul>
<div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Fellowship of the Ring</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by JRR Tolkein</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Lady’s Not for Burning</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Christopher Fry</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Paradiso</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Dante</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1985
Oxford Book of Prayer</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Hound of Heaven</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Francis Thompson</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
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<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: In prayer, as in so many other areas of life, we “learn as we
go.”</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prayer
in dialogue with a poem,, in “call and response” fashion, pausing
after each line or two to speak or write a prayer that the poem
evokes or allows.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not
every poem is a prayer, but I have come to believe that poetry, even
for the angry and the disenchanted, takes its inspiration and energy
from the Spirit who teaches us to pray. Chp Introduction</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">what
“comes” in quiet times when our intention is directed toward God
is worth our attention. Chp Hildegard of Bingen: From Meditations</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
rabbi named Zusya died and went to stand before the judgment seat of
God. As he waited for God to appear, he grew nervous thinking about
his life and how little he had done. He began to imagine that God was
going to ask him, "Why weren't you Moses or why weren't you
Solomon or why weren't you David?" But when God appeared, the
rabbi was surprised. God simply asked, "Why weren't you Zusya?"
A shorter unattributed version is in chp Gerard Manley Hopkins:
"Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord"</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
pray for peace is to pray for the courage to show up and bring peace
to where there is no peace. Chp Francisco X. Alarcon: "L. A.
Prayer"</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Appreciation
requires imagination. Chp Anna Kamienska: "Those Who Carry"</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
answer to the question often asked in desperation or
exasperation—“Where is God?”—is always and simply, “Here.”
Chp Michael Chitwood: "On Being Asked to Pray for a Van"</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prayer
is partly a practice of paying attention to what is, and partly a
practice of participation. Chp Michael Chitwood: "On Being
Asked to Pray for a Van"</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Introduction
1</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Natures
God</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hildegard
of Bingen: From Meditations 7</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lucille
Clifton: "spring song" 13</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walter
Chalmers Smith: "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise" 18</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Robert
Frost: "A Prayer in Spring" 22</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wendell
Berry: "Prayer after Eating" 27</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joy
Harjo: "Eagle Poem" 30</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wrestling</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
Donne: "Holy Sonnet XIV" 37</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gerard
Manley Hopkins: "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord" 42</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">SAID:
Psalm (from 99 Psalms) 48</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marilyn
McEntyre: "Assurance" 53</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Praying</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">George
Herbert: "The Call" 61</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas
Merton: "The Candlemas Procession" 66</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Denise
Levertov: "The Avowal" 70</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Galway
Kinnell: "Prayer" 74</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scott
Cairns: "Possible Answers to Prayer" 79</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary
Oliver: "Praying" 84</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marin
Sorescu: "Prayer" 87</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Witnessing</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">T.
S. Eliot: From "The Dry Salvages" 93</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Richard
Wilbur: From "The Eye" 97</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Francisco
X. Alarcon: "L. A. Prayer" 103</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anna
Kamienska: "Those Who Carry" 109</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Michael
Chitwood: "On Being Asked to Pray for a Van" 113</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anonymous
Truck Driver's Prayer: by a Young Ghanaian Christian 117</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Known
and Knowing</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Psalm
139:1-12 125</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Praying
with Poems, Praying through Poems: An Afterword 129</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Works
Cited 133</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">List
of Permissions 137</span></span></li></ul>
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for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://www.marilynmcentyre.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/When-Poets-Pray-Marilyn-McEntyre/dp/0802876587"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AMarilyn+McEntyre&s=relevancerank&text=Marilyn+McEntyre&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
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and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/53557.Marilyn_Chandler_McEntyre"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anglican
Planet </span></span><a href="https://anglicanplanet.net/when-poets-pray/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Book
Oblivion </span></span><a href="https://bookoblivion.com/2020/03/02/marilyn-mcentyre-when-poets-pray/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spectrum
</span></span><a href="https://spectrummagazine.org/culture/book-review-when-poets-pray/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Presbyterian
Outlook</span></span><a href="https://pres-outlook.org/2019/06/when-poets-pray/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Friends
Journal</span></span><a href="https://www.friendsjournal.org/book/when-poets-pray/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Christian
Librarian</span></span><a href="https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2143&context=tcl"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
Pastoral Ponderings </span></span><a href="https://mypastoralponderings.com/2020/01/30/book-review-when-poets-pray-by-marilyn-mcentyre/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>blog</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-151929460476506342023-11-13T10:11:00.000-08:002023-12-10T18:10:26.557-08:00Not Exactly Ghosts<p></p><div><b>Book: </b><span id="docs-internal-guid-784fe43e-7fff-496a-fc4c-640d8b3beb93" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A Room in a Rectory-part of Not Exactly Ghosts</span><br />
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/not-exactly-ghosts.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/not-exactly-ghosts.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/not-exactly-ghosts.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-253e86fb-7fff-ec18-5502-a2915ee4d59d" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Sir Andrew Caldecott</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Google PlayBooks from Gutenberg</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Ash-Tree Press</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9781553100362 (ISBN10: 1553100360)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: November 13, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: November 15, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">30 (276) pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Fiction, Short Stories, Book Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3½ out of 5</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religion: Christianity</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religious Quality: 2 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Christianity-Teaching Quality: 1 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Tells a good story: 4 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Character development: 3 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis (<span style="color: #cc0000;">Caution: Spoiler Alert</span>-Jump to <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/not-exactly-ghosts.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a>):</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
new rector takes up residency. But in the rectory, there is a room
which is off limits? Why? The rector is determined to get rid of the
superstition which goes with the room. And the story takes off from
there.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li id="docs-internal-guid-76b89f3d-7fff-d72f-ebcc-d5cad67d26b7" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reverend Nigel Tylethorpe-the rector</span></li><li style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Miss Roberta Pristin-housekeeper for the rectory. Came with the rectory</span></li><li style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Mr Bugles-sexton, verger.</span></li><li style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">NICOLAS PHAYNE PINXIT-a previous rector who was seduced into the dark arts</span></li><li style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Cyril Thundersley-Biship of Wintonbury</span></li><li style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Dean Burnfell-80 years old, former canon of Wintonbury</span></li><li style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Colonial Bishop of Kongea-on leave</span></li><li style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Leslie Trueson-lay person, Fellow of St Peter's Oxbridge</span></li><li style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Mr Lemmet-the Bishop’s chaplain</span></li></ul><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Place:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botolph_of_Thorney" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">St Botolph's</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, Tilchington - a real place, at least the St Botolph’s part.</span></li></ul>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li id="docs-internal-guid-09b3ee2c-7fff-ac6d-7aa5-899fbd57da03" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-top: 1pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Recommendation: Book Group-Peter</span></li><li style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-top: 1pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When: July 2023</span></li><li style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-top: 1pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Why do I want to read this book: A short story and billed as a ghost story.</span></li></ul>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br /><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.01in; margin-top: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Note: My book group is reading
only about</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>A Room in a
Rectory</i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> not the other
tales. Maybe when I have the time, I will read the other tales.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Room in a Rectory</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
story starts with a narrative of an almost idyllic place the Rectory
was set in. A small stream running through the grounds with pools and
gardens. The current rector, the Reverend Nigel Tylethorpe, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>…
surveyed the result of his labour with something of that satisfaction
which the author of Genesis ascribes to the Creator, who, looking
upon his creation, saw that it was good.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Isn’t that something which we all should do? Look at our labor and
declare it is good? When we make, I think we get this instinct from
our Creator.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
sexton’s assessment of Tylethorpe is that </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>t'new
parson be the sort of man as'll do us good without us noticing.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In one way, this is good, in another way, it is a deadening of
Christianity. You do want a pastor who will lead the congregation.
That is lead them to a better walk with God, to be more like how God
is. That does involve change and change is disruptive. Maybe not at
the start, but eventually.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
housekeeper had one fixed rule: there was a locked room which the
previous rector had stated should never be entered. This perturbed
Tylethorpe and he would deal with that stipulation in due time. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tylethorpe
seemed more concerned with appearances than spirituality. Such as a
stained glass window was resented by him because it did not match the
period of the church. Even though it was St Michael vanquishing the
Prince of Evil, he was more concerned about the window than the
contents. Is this the cause of his downfall?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
flash of light on the stained glass window reveal the last rector who
used the closed room. It also showed an inscription of </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>YE
TRIUMPH OF AUTHORITIE OVER INTELLIGENCE. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
the pondering of this inscription was put out of mind with the call
of a dinner bell: </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
had a good cook and a good cellar. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
</span></span><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, serif;">sounded
like he valued contentment over discipleship.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
chamber the rector wanted to inspect was called the Sermon Chamber.
It was clean, but unused-Pristin had seen that it was cleaned once a
week. The rector intended to use this 4x5 room as his study. But it
needed renovating. Pristin recites a history of the chamber. The
previous rector told her that </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>it
be better to learn from precept than by suffering.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
So she has not done anything but clean in that room.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tylethorpe
explains to Pristin the rationale for disregarding her concerns. He
regards her concerns and the concerns of the former rector and
superstition holding him back from achieving his purpose. It took
three months to do the renovation-mostly because Tylethorpe
antagonized almost all the workers. In the meantime Pristin continued
on with her work, giving</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
him no opening whatever for conversation in the matter, and it became
annoyingly clear to him that the effect of Mr. Hempstede’s words on
her simple but strong mind had been to place the room outside her
range of thought or observation.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In other words, he was on his own with the room.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mr
Tylethorpe felt as though he could have tolerated anything more
easily than such total disinterest</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
had gone on a trip and when he returned the study was ready.
Everything was as he envisioned it. He sat by the fire after a well
cooked meal and felt himself getting sleepy. So he formalized some
notes,read something from an old book of a year’s poetry.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Tylethorpe
… was by no means a bad preacher. This was because he took trouble
to think of what he was going to say and to give his thoughts a clear
and concise expression.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I think I would like this kind of sermon rather than frills and
thrills without content and rigor. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
the rector seemed to veer off a bit and start talking about the devil
and being damned rather than the normal more gentrified preaching.
It was almost like someone else was preaching. This was followed by
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Even
on Christmas Day the Rector focused his remarks on the astromancy of
the Magi instead of on the sublime purpose of their journey.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
was a letter which noted the rector’s fascination with demonolatry.
This is shown not only in his preaching, but in his mannerisms. He
acts like he is constantly under surveillance and about to be
ambushed. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
has been strange occurrences in the room, particularly reading the
</span></span><a href="https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/ann_reg/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Annual
Registers</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-this
is still published and is a summary of the year’s events. When
Tylethorpe is in the room and reading this, something strange
happens, the </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Annual Registers</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
ends up on the floor. Tylethorpe has a selection memorized, but
cannot find it in the volume. These sections and references seem to
come out of thin air as nobody knows its origins.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
next part continues the descent of Tylerthorpe into lunacy. It was
as though his predecessor, Nicolas Phayne, resided with him in the
form of Lucifer. In a dream, he saw Phayme preparing for the
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Admixtures
for the Evil Sacrifice.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is a combination of faith and superstition. Sounds like the
result is evil. Tylerthorpe felt both dread and curiosity towards the
ceremony. This curiosity towards evil is what makes us depart from
the faith and tend towards that which is not God.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tylerthorpe’s
world was falling apart. His sermons now were readings from other
sermons. His parishioners were leaving. His servants wanted to quit.
A doctor was summoned but Tylerthorpe would not submit to an
examination. But the doctor left a potion to cause him to sleep.
Terrifying nightmares ensue.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Caldecott
says there are three forms of madmen:</span></span></p>
<ul><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thinking
senseless from senseless premises</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sensible
thoughts from senseless premises</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Senseless
thoughts from sensible premises.</span></span></p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interesting.
Chesterton writes a story called </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Poet and the Lunatics.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The madman is definitely the second one.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tylerthorpe
was the second. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>His
ratiocination was quick, clear and concise; its basis in religion,
philosophy and ethics was temporarily destroyed; it was rooted only
in his present terror.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Rational thought does not necessarily lead to rational conclusions.
If the premise is faulty, then the conclusion will be also faulty.
Both Chesterton and Lewis have talked about this.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
felt that he could no longer serve in the ministry. His life was a
ruin. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
had heard suicides dubbed cowards by some and appraised as brave by
others: but why prate of cowardice or bravery? It was just a natural
process that a man should take his life when he can no longer live
it.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He made preparations to commit suicide. But Miss Pristin happened to
observe what was going on and knocked some sense into him. He was
sent to a nursing home.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
next scene is at a Bishop’s breakfast with some friends and certain
men of knowledge. The Bishop remarks that he thought he was living
in the 20th Century. Burnell noted that </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>You
should never … pay too much attention to almanacs. My life is
nearing its close and it has been lived in many centuries. A man
belongs to all the ages to which he is heir. … It is only births
and deaths, not lives, that can be dated in Time's Register.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
True, we cannot free ourselves from the past. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
talk was about Tylethorpe and his preaching of the demonic. Trueson
noted that there were manuscripts in the Bishops library which had a
parallel account of the troubles Tylethorpe experienced. The
manuscript in question talks about Phayne. It gives background.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kongea
Bishop noted that exorcisms should be done. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>My
sanctioned appendix to the Book of Common Prayer translated into
Kongahili contains three occasional offices for the exorcisation of
evil spirits. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Apparently there is </span></span><a href="https://thavmapub.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/anglican-exorcism-formulae.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>still
sections about this</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
even though in my copy, I do not see it.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Bishop was in a dilemma. He felt that he needed to have an exorcism
take place at the rectory, but his modern mind was saying this is
part of superstition. But the Kongea Bishop had no doubts about its
effectiveness and would do the exorcism, unless prevented. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
exorcism was done and the chamber purified. The only mishap was that
during the exorcism, a branch had broken off and destroyed a stained
glass window at St Botolph’s.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tylethorpe
resigns, makes recovery and goes on an 18 month world tour before
settling down at his family’s estate. The rectory is occupied by a
family.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
Room in a Rectory</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
is a short story within a collection of short stories by Andrew
Caldecott. A rector is placed in an area and has his own house. But
there is one room which is off limits. The rector views this as
superstition and uses the room anyway. Of course, bad things
happen-that is the reason why you have ghost stories.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Caldecott
wrote an engaging story, one which read the way I do, caused me to
think about various issues, such as: are there things off limits?
Does contentment inhibit growth and breed an illusion of independence
and invincibility?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is a good hour or less read. Glad I read it.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Caldecott
sets up the rectory being in almost a Garden of Eden place. What is
the snake in this garden?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tylethorpe.
Does Caldecott deal with any spiritual part of him? There is a line
which says: </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
had a good cook and a good cellar. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
does this say about him?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
stained glass had the inscription of YE TRIUMPH OF AUTHORITIE OVER
INTELLIGENCE. What does this mean? Is this important to the story
line? Why? Later on the housekeeper understands that </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>it
be better to learn from precept than by suffering.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Is there a tie in?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
caused the rector to turn from his normal well thought out preaching
to concentrating on the more sinister side of spiritualism?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Caldecott
says that there are three forms of madmen:</span></span></p>
<ul><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thinking
senseless from senseless premises</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sensible
thoughts from senseless premises</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Senseless
thoughts from sensible premises.</span></span></p></li></ul>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
you agree? How come Caldecott puts Tylethorpe into the second
category? Does rational thought lead to correct conclusions? Why and
when do they come to proper conclusions and when not? What is the
use of rational thought?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tylerthorpe
had reached the conclusion that suicide was the only option (</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
had heard suicides dubbed cowards by some and appraised as brave by
others: but why prate of cowardice or bravery? It was just a natural
process that a man should take his life when he can no longer live
it.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">)
Caldecott gives this as an example of the second way a madman thinks.
Where is Tylerthorpe’s logic incorrect?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.17in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>You
should never … pay too much attention to almanacs. My life is
nearing its close and it has been lived in many centuries. A man
belongs to all the ages to which he is heir. … It is only births
and deaths, not lives, that can be dated in Time's Register. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How are we the sum of the ages past? </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
lessons do you think Caldecott wants us to pick up from this story,
if any?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
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</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
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</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Room
in a Rectory</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as a short story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
central ideas does the author present?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
they personal, sociological, global, political, economic, spiritual,
medical, or scientific</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/fiction-discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Groups General Fiction Guide</u></span></span></span></a></p> <br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">amour
pro pre-a sense of one's own worth; self-respect.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">felo
de se-suicide</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ratiocination-1
: the process of exact thinking : reasoning. 2 : a reasoned train of
thought.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">verisimilitude-the
appearance of being true or real.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">verger-an
official in a church who acts as a caretaker and attendant.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">antipodean-a
person from Australia or New Zealand (used by inhabitants of the
northern hemisphere).</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Manichaeism:a
type of gnosticism—a dualistic religion that offered salvation
through special knowledge (gnosis) of spiritual truths. Like all
forms of gnosticism, Manichaeism taught that life in this world is
unbearably painful and radically evil.</span></span></li></ul>
<div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Paradise
Lost</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by John Milton</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Desiderata
By Max Ehrmann</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: Narrow in bounds, but wide in variety, the garden of
Tilchington Rectory was one of the most beautiful in the South
Country.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: The name of his housekeeper is, as you may have guessed,
Roberta Pristin.</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Room in a Rectory</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Branch
Line to Benceston</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sonata
in D Minor</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Autoepitaphy</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Pump in Thorp's Spinney</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whiffs
of the Sea</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
Due Course</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Light
in the Darkness</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Decastroland</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Victim of Medusa</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fits
of the Blues</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Christmas
Re-union</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Caldecott_(barrister)"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Room-Rectory-Ghost-Christmas-Stories/dp/1771965746"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ASir+Andrew+Caldecott&s=relevancerank&text=Sir+Andrew+Caldecott&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-room-in-a-rectory-andrew-caldecott/1143226112"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125394566-a-room-in-a-rectory?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=6xchorWMOk&rank=10"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16616431.Andrew_Caldecott"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks14/1403341h.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Gutenberg</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Australia</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.mrjamespodcast.com/2021/03/episode-83-a-room-in-a-rectory/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Podcast
to the Curious</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#NewWords">New Words</a> <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-fc050fc7-7fff-3b43-c65c-e9333724aaba" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Marjorie Bowen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub from Australian Gutenberg</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Oxford City Press</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9781849024532 (ISBN10: 1849024537)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: November 11, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: November 12, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">266 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Fiction, Short Stories, Book Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Tells a good story: 3 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Character development: 3 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis (<span style="color: #cc0000;">Caution: Spoiler Alert</span>-Jump to <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/collected-twilight-stories-vol-i.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a>):</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
wanderer has inherited his family estate at Bothal. He comes to to
Bothal to sell the property but is drawn to it. He talks with the
caretaker who allude to some strange occurrences in the past. Then he
wanders through a field of poppies and finds a silent man mowing
poppies. After that he goes to the cemetery and finds an isolated
grave where a mysterious man tells of the person’s history in the
grave. Finally the wanderer goes back to the house and falls asleep.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maitland-Narrator
and owner of Bothal</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Place:</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothal"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Bothal</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-family
estate which may not have been lived in for a hundred years. This is
a real place: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>a
village in Northumberland, in England. It is situated between Morpeth
and Ashington. There is a castle, a church, a vicarage opposite the
church gates, some stepping stones over the River Wansbeck, and a few
houses.</i></span></span></p>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
Book Group-Peter</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
July 2023</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: A short story and billed as a ghost
story.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
book group is reading only about the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Poppy
Field</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
not the other tales. Maybe when I have the time, I will read the
other tales.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scoured
Silk (All-Story Weekly, Jun 8, 1918)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Breakdown (No record of magazine publication found)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Remained
Behind—A Romance À La Mode Gothique (Help Yourself! Annual,
1936)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
House By The Poppy Field (No record of magazine publication found)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bowen
seems like she wants to be descriptive, very descriptive. Her first
sentence of this short story is: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
Maitland first saw the house the poppies were in full bloom; he had
never before seen so many blooming together; the field was a sheet of
scarlet flecked with green, right up to the hedge of unclipped yew
that divided the garden from the pasture land; also large mauve
poppies with a deep stain at the base of each petal rose from the
long parterres at the side of the lawn; the property was in tolerable
condition but had the melancholy air of a place for long not lived in
and only superficially cared for by tired indifferent hands.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
main character and the only one with any kind of a role is a person
named Maitland. He has been a wanderer who did not seem to be too
concerned about money or property. A distant relative left an estate,
Bothal, to him and now he had arrived. Upon gazing at his place, he
wondered </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>what
was he regretting, what seeking?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Isn’t this what any thinking person wonders sometime in their life?
</span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>never
felt so near her hidden presence as now.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Who is the “her”?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>People
should not leave houses standing when they no longer intend living in
them.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Maitland seems to have some foreboding about this house. His initial
thought is to sell the house. But after looking around, he is
thinking this might be a good place to collect his thoughts. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
house has not been improved. No electricity or phone or bathrooms or
heating. Maitland wonders if it was haunted? The caretakers reply
that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>there
were tales of the shade of a little black boy that used to haunt the
long gallery.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But they have not experienced anything.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bowen
continues with her rich descriptions. By the house is an expanse
field of poppies, more are blooming than any season in memory.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maitland
went out to look around. He met a person who was mowing the poppy
field. When spoken too-there was no answer. Maitland thought:
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>forward
to escape by death---backward to escape by dreams of a childhood that
never was.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Not sure what Maitland is referring to here.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
his wandering, he comes across a graveyard. There is one grave lying
apart from the others. A stranger tells him who the grave belonged
to. The person, who was an ancestor of Maitland, delved with the
occult. The grave was not consecrated. He tried to raise the dead, an
ancestor of him whom he wanted to marry. Maitland said: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
is delicious to be in love with the dead—yes, of all the manner of
loving open to mankind that is, perhaps, the most beautiful.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Yuck! On the night he tried, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he
died that night and no one has since slept in Bothal and lived.”</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he
felt that past and present joined, and that escape by returning to
his childhood and by death were resolved into one deliverance.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maitland
felt glad he was to sleep at Bothal that night. H3 felt like he was
coming home.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>On
the threshold of his room stood a shadowy figure with wild flowers in
her hair, a poppy coronal, surely, floating among her tresses.
Maitland blew out his human light, entered his room, moving
delicately among the shadows, lay down on his clean bed and slept.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What kind of sleep? I suspect it is like his ancestor. Or maybe he
was the ancestor who had tried to raise the dead and his bride was
waiting for him?</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Half-Past
Two (No record of magazine publication found)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Elsie's
Lonely Afternoon (The Last Bouquet—Some Twilight Tales, 1933)</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Extraordinary Adventure Of Mr. John Proudie (Crimes of Old London,
1919)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ann
Mellor's Lover (Seeing Life! And Other Stories, 1923)</u></span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Poppy
Field</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
is a slow moving story of a family member who has not been to the
family home, ever. The family home has been vacant for a hundred
years. But there is a tale of the occult which goes with the last
resident. This sets up the ending to the short story.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is a tale which does not give resolution at the end. There are hints
of what the author had in mind, but nothing overt. When telling a
tale like that, one wonders, does the author leave enough
breadcrumbs. In this case, the breadcrumbs are well hidden and not
really subject to a quick read. If you are into descriptive writing,
you will enjoy the story. On the other hand, if you just want a
quick, satisfying story, you may want to look elsewhere. </span></span>
</p>
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<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bowen
wants to be descriptive, very descriptive. Do you think her
descriptiveness enhances her story?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Maitland comes to Bothal, he wonders what he was seeking? What do you
think he was looking for? Is there any relevance to situations you
are in?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
it seem like Maitland wanted to die? Why do you think so? Do you
think he does die? Does Bowen have a concept of what an after life
would be?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bowen
says </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>never
felt so near her hidden presence as now.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Who is the “her”?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do the poppies have to do with the story?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who
are the mysterious mower and the man by the grave? Are they the same?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
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</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
does Bowen mean when she has Maitland thinking: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>forward
to escape by death---backward to escape by dreams of a childhood that
never was?</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
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</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do you make of Maitland’s statement: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
is delicious to be in love with the dead—yes, of all the manner of
loving open to mankind that is, perhaps, the most beautiful?</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
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</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
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</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>____</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as a ___?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
there anybody you would consider religious?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did they show it?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
the book overtly religious?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did it affect the book's story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/fiction-discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Groups General Fiction Guide</u></span></span></span></a></p> <br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Andirons-a
bracket support, normally found in pairs, on which logs are laid for
burning in an open fireplace, so that air may circulate under the
firewood, allowing better burning and less smoke. Also called
firedogs</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pentacle-a
talisman or magical object, typically disk-shaped and inscribed with
a pentagram or other figure, and used as a symbol of the element of
earth.</span></span></li></ul>
<div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: When Maitland first saw the house the poppies were in full
bloom; he had never before seen so many blooming together; the field
was a sheet of scarlet flecked with green, right up to the hedge of
unclipped yew that divided the garden from the pasture land; also
large mauve poppies with a deep stain at the base of each petal rose
from the long parterres at the side of the lawn; the property was in
tolerable condition but had the melancholy air of a place for long
not lived in and only superficially cared for by tired indifferent
hands.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: Maitland blew out his human light, entered his room, moving
delicately among the shadows, lay down on his clean bed and slept.</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scoured
Silk (All-Story Weekly, Jun 8, 1918)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Breakdown (No record of magazine publication found)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remained
Behind—A Romance À La Mode Gothique (Help Yourself! Annual,
1936)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
House By The Poppy Field (No record of magazine publication found)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Half-Past
Two (No record of magazine publication found)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elsie's
Lonely Afternoon (The Last Bouquet—Some Twilight Tales, 1933)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Extraordinary Adventure Of Mr. John Proudie (Crimes of Old London,
1919)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ann
Mellor's Lover (Seeing Life! And Other Stories, 1923)</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Bowen"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Poppy-Field-Christmas-Stories/dp/1771965738"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marjorie-Bowen/author/B001HPTO04?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36423756-collected-works-of-marjorie-bowen"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/393882.Marjorie_Bowen"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900561h.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Gutenberg</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Australia</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://skullsinthestars.com/2016/09/19/kecksies-by-marjorie-bowen/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Skulls
in the Stars</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
blog-discusses Marjorie Bowen, including the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Poppy
Field </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">story.</span></span></li></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-79386198594605961692023-11-11T10:11:00.000-08:002023-11-20T10:26:42.915-08:00The Captain of the Polestar<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoOlMo3mdNjwljH81UfABJty3wMHDPECh9jTjVye_6v3Tsh0BTA0aEe8-0nD02lN8cIdfjWa4QqrMXS1K5vvNgLzDTCKLbCnckrB53cNKOQahWJyfj5U-wUkge3x0anlLXlnRbHiGFGpVKfqeW2xEwF3CjBv0uAzp0OCy5LMe_uTFcxbb81KvN0tIBW5U/s438/md31684730685.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoOlMo3mdNjwljH81UfABJty3wMHDPECh9jTjVye_6v3Tsh0BTA0aEe8-0nD02lN8cIdfjWa4QqrMXS1K5vvNgLzDTCKLbCnckrB53cNKOQahWJyfj5U-wUkge3x0anlLXlnRbHiGFGpVKfqeW2xEwF3CjBv0uAzp0OCy5LMe_uTFcxbb81KvN0tIBW5U/s320/md31684730685.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><p></p><div><b>Book: </b><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d481821-7fff-359f-4edc-f1a709311969" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Captain of the Polestar</span><br />
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cb75dd8c-7fff-0c33-1789-855046624855" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Arthur Conan Doyle</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub from Gutenberg</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Kessinger Publishing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9781419155918 (ISBN10: 1419155911)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: November 9, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: November 11, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">30 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Fiction, Short Stories, Book Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Tells a good story: 4 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Character development: 3 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis (<span style="color: #cc0000;">Caution: Spoiler Alert</span>-Jump to <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-captain-of-polestar.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a>):</b><br />
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</div><div> </div><div>See the <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">blog page on </span></span><a href="https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2020/01/3-captain-of-pole-star.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Doings
of Doyle</u></span></span></span></a> for a better summary.</div><div><br />
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<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Captain
Nicholas Craigie-Captain of the Polestar. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
has told me several times that the thought of death was a pleasant
one to him, which is a sad thing for a young man to say; he cannot be
much more than thirty, …</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
M’Alister Ray-Student of medicine, ship’s doctor. He is engaged
to be married</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mr.
Manson-Second mate</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
M‘Leod-harpooner</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mr.
Milne-Chief Mate</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sandie
M’Donald of Peterhead-</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peter
Williamson of Shetland-</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dr.
John M’Alister Ray-father of the narrator</span></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Places:</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Amsterdam"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Amsterdam
Island</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mayen"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jan
Meyen</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
Book Group-Peter</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
July 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: A short story and billed as a ghost
story.</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note
that the book’s full title is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
My book group is reading only about the Polestar, not the other
tales. Maybe when I have the time, I will read the other tales.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Captain of the "Pole-Star"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a blog page on </span></span><a href="https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2020/01/3-captain-of-pole-star.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Doings
of Doyle</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
which gives lots of background to this story. Such as:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doyle
had been a ship surgeon on a whaler</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Other
Doyle ghost stories</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Connections
on Doyle’s spiritualism</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Slade"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Henry
Slade</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-mentioned
in the book</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
story is told through the eyes of the ship’s doctor and probably as
near a confidant that the Captain has. Not that the Captain shares
very much with the doctor.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
scene is the Polestar is a whaling ship up near the Arctic Circle. It
is getting late in the season and the men want to return back to
their home port. But the Captain wants to remain out a little longer
to catch a school of whales he knows is out there. But there is more
to the Captain’s decision to stay. As he told the Doctor, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>for
I have more to bind me to the other world than to this one.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
When the doctor shows a picture of his fiancee to the Captain, the
Captain gets upset.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
a couple of factors have spooked the crew, such as a mysterious white
figure on the ice flow which disappears, a screeching sound, and the
general feelings of something wandering around or following them.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a danger when people follow a person who has no reason to live.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mr.
Milne thinks that he has devoted himself to whaling simply for the
reason that it is the most dangerous occupation which he could
select, and that he courts death in every possible manner.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It not only puts the leader in danger, but everyone who the leader is
responsible for. The doctor comes to the conclusion that they are
commanded by a madman.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
path to escape is closing up with each succeeding day till the way is
blocked. Provisions are running scarce and rations are cut in half.
The Captain gives a speech which enlivens the men: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
you have to thank me for the one you have to thank me for the other,
and we may call it quits. We’ve tried a bold venture before this
and succeeded, so now that we’ve tried one and failed we’ve no
cause to cry out about it</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Captain also sees the white figure fleeing from the ship’s area.
The Captain seems to be in a better mood.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Captain is a very private person. Nobody goes into his cabin. But one
day he asks the doctor to go into his room. The doctor finds a
picture of a young woman. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Captain is an intelligent man. The doctor found him a challenge
intellectually: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
hate to have my intellectual toes trod upon.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
it would be as logical to brand Christianity as an error because
Judas, who professed that religion, was a villain.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The Captain noted this in reference to the doctor making a remark
about the imposters within spiritualism. But I think that this is
also true of Christianity. This reminds me of GK Chesterton’s line:
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been
found difficult; and left untried.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
We should not judge Christianity because of people failing at it and
even more so the spectacular failures, but by what it wants to be.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
how do we judge the trueness of a religion or a philosophy if it is
not by its followers? As a Christian, it is how the belief lines up
with what the Bible has lead us. But then how do we know that that
Bible is a good reference point? This can get circular pretty fast. I
think at some point it becomes “does the trueness align with what
you know of truth?”</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
dealing with such uncertain factors </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[waiting
for the ice to break up] </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>as
wind and ice a man can be nothing else.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This must strike Americans as intolerable as we want to take charge
and create our own way. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Perhaps
it was the wind and sand of the Arabian deserts which gave the minds
of the original followers of Mahomet their tendency to bow to kismet.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
[destiny; fate.]</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Captain seems to have a relationship with the apparition.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
now the doctor has experienced the ghost. He heard the scream of the
ghost. It was the scream of grief, of great unutterable grief.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
are able to make progress before being stopped by another ice flow. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Captain makes a will and tells the doctor what he wants done with his
belongings if he does not survive this trip.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
now the Captain has left the ship-the doctor saw him. It seemed like
the Captain was going to a lover. The doctor and a party of seamen
have looked for him. They finally found him, dead. There seemed to be
a bit of mist around him; the men think it was in the shape of a
woman. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
have learned never to ridicule any man’s opinion.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
last couple of pages are narrated by the doctor’s father. He
attests to the trueness of his son and his journal.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">=================</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
is a curious thing that in whaling vessels the Church of England
Prayer-book is always employed, although there is never a member of
that Church among either officers or crew. Our men are all Roman
Catholics or Presbyterians, the former predominating. Since a ritual
is used which is foreign to both, neither can complain that the other
is preferred to them.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I just found this a bit curious.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<br />
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</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>J.
Habakuk Jephson's Statement</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Great Keinplatz Experiment</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Man from Archangel</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>That
Little Square Box</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>John
Huxford's Hiatus</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Literary Mosaic</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>John
Barrington Cowles</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Parson of Jackman's Gulch</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Ring of Thoth</u></span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
evaluation is only for a single short story, the title story, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Captain of the Polestar</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
story is well told from the perspective of the ship’s doctor about
the strange occurrences which happened on the PoleStar ship in a late
season whaling expedition. In the 30 pages or so, Doyle gives
descriptions of events, all aboard a ship. He manages to keep the
story alive, even with a person like myself who thinks he knows where
Doyle is heading. There are hinds along the way such as the Captain
saying </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
have more to bind me to the other world than to this one.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes
it is not the surprise which makes you want to read a book rather in
the way a story is told. While not the very best-there is only so
much you can do in 30 pages-its is a worthwhile read. </span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
read a ghost story? Where in the spectrum of Christian thought do
ghosts reside? If you say not at all, should a Christian read such
stories? Why or why not?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
ship’s doctor could find rational explanations to refute the men’s
fear of ghosts. How did the doctor’s mind change? When do rational
explanations fail? Or do they? At the end of the story, the doctor
says </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
have learned never to ridicule any man’s opinion.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Why do you think Doyle included that in there?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doyle
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
it would be as logical to brand Christianity as an error because
Judas, who professed that religion, was a villain. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Can we judge a religion or a philosophy by its followers?
Particularly by those who would be classified as failures? How do you
judge the rightness of a religion/philosophy?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a statement that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
Church of England Prayer Book </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">is
used for services because none of the seamen are of that
denomination. It prevents fights. What does that say about what Doyle
thought of Christian denominations? Is this a good solution?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
it make any difference to the story to know that Doyle was a
spiritualism mystic?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as a short story??</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
there anybody you would consider religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did they show it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/fiction-discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Groups General Fiction Guide</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<br />
<b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fey-giving
an impression of vague unworldliness.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hummock-a
hillock, knoll, or mound.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oleographs-a
lithographic print textured to resemble an oil painting</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tympanum-the
tympanic membrane or eardrum.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taffrail-a
rail and<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=581639650&sxsrf=AM9HkKlYS5xd1b7Vf5ZEJQnDEnK4vfsYcA:1699769037365&q=ornamentation&si=ALGXSlZBVj2N0nR2EWHpMBkgGidNny_4j6tYtpQ6yTgMn77kJgDPYzR2Of_3kI8drjdho-MuTct7L12fyftIbLWNX3xiRuV_Iu_sOaXN1D-L30Q9Cj1fkbU%3D&expnd=1">
</a></span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=581639650&sxsrf=AM9HkKlYS5xd1b7Vf5ZEJQnDEnK4vfsYcA:1699769037365&q=ornamentation&si=ALGXSlZBVj2N0nR2EWHpMBkgGidNny_4j6tYtpQ6yTgMn77kJgDPYzR2Of_3kI8drjdho-MuTct7L12fyftIbLWNX3xiRuV_Iu_sOaXN1D-L30Q9Cj1fkbU%3D&expnd=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>ornamentation</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
around a ship's<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=581639650&sxsrf=AM9HkKlYS5xd1b7Vf5ZEJQnDEnK4vfsYcA:1699769037365&q=stern&si=ALGXSlb7kXTFD12S9BcwF9jXRZh4AFSKFPWDg_YnihlZOtkn1CkA2A6ekIW9PrAKhSeOOY06o8-AWWU00djN80baj2Ahb3MWjA%3D%3D&expnd=1">
</a></span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=581639650&sxsrf=AM9HkKlYS5xd1b7Vf5ZEJQnDEnK4vfsYcA:1699769037365&q=stern&si=ALGXSlb7kXTFD12S9BcwF9jXRZh4AFSKFPWDg_YnihlZOtkn1CkA2A6ekIW9PrAKhSeOOY06o8-AWWU00djN80baj2Ahb3MWjA%3D%3D&expnd=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>stern</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></li></ul><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: [Being an extract from the singular journal of John M’Alister
Ray, student of medicine.]</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: During his absence at sea his betrothed had died under
circumstances of peculiar horror.</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Captain of the "Pole-Star"</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">J.
Habakuk Jephson's Statement</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Great Keinplatz Experiment</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Man from Archangel</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That
Little Square Box</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
Huxford's Hiatus</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Literary Mosaic</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
Barrington Cowles</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Parson of Jackman's Gulch</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Ring of Thoth</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455423/the-captain-of-the-pole-star-by-doyle-arthur-conan/9781804944035"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Captain_of_the_%22Pole-Star%22"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Captain-Polestar-Fiction-Literary-Stories/dp/0809597330"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-45167135503427710372023-10-20T07:06:00.000-07:002024-01-08T06:50:06.116-08:00Silence: Lectures and Writings<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXpo1euf2KZqNx8vPd_RM4Ywo9OW0dsuX3UEqLK8HIT5NFn4VT8MBQ3ngqQKY7rfQ4-MRgU9ki3HlvXylnInABZSchPdBXhIyBWYkNXBth-St2_BoqF-XZDlo93TTRhAhpXlW_yz64_SU8I1x1vaswCR6NzeFSGYlGtxSFW-LNqLO71BUQ3n5cqssyFtg/s243/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="207" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXpo1euf2KZqNx8vPd_RM4Ywo9OW0dsuX3UEqLK8HIT5NFn4VT8MBQ3ngqQKY7rfQ4-MRgU9ki3HlvXylnInABZSchPdBXhIyBWYkNXBth-St2_BoqF-XZDlo93TTRhAhpXlW_yz64_SU8I1x1vaswCR6NzeFSGYlGtxSFW-LNqLO71BUQ3n5cqssyFtg/s1600/Untitled.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><p></p><div><b>Book: </b><span id="docs-internal-guid-2669ceb3-7fff-116f-06b6-35fd07c59802" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Silence: Lectures and Writings</span><br />
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/10/silence-lectures-and-writings.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-0910a80a-7fff-827e-e5dd-de951532016d" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: John Cage</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Libby from the San Francisco Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Wesleyan University Press</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9780819560285 (ISBN10: 0819560286)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: October 20, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: Unfinished</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">276 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Essay, Book Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 2 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
series of essays by Cage on various topics related to modern
experimental music. And then by extension, the philosophy behind his
compositions. He talks extensively about silence-how there is no true
silence, we just mask other sounds, and his attempts at making a
truly random less compositions. He also discusses other people in the
20th century modern music era.</span></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book: October 20, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: A few months ago my book group read a
book on the books which influence Tom Bowie. This was one of them. We
will be discussing our books in a couple of months.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it? In high school my music teacher
exposed us to Cage’s work. Since that time I have been interested
in him. </span></span>
</li></ul>
<br />
<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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I did not read all of the book and my notes cover about half of it. When there was items I highlighted, but not wrote about, they are in the chapter where they were taken from in italics.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each
essay usually has an introduction to give context of why Cage was
writing this piece. Then at the end, there is some commentary.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Foreword
to 50th Anniversary Edition</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
text remains the same</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Do
you see how much easier it is to get people to think for themselves
by asking questions than by making pronouncements</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Silence
has a reputation as the most influential book written by an American
composer</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>two
great turning points in Cage’s life: the change in his music in
1951, at age thirty-eight, and the change in his public
career—brought about by this book—at age forty-nine.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>when
the war came along, I decided to use only quiet sounds. There seemed
to me to be no truth, no good, in anything big in society. But quiet
sounds were like loneliness, or love or</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Erdman’s
husband, the distinguished expert on world mythology Joseph Campbell</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>century
mystic Meister Eckhart</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>4′33′′
is only mentioned twice in Silence, never by name, but as “my
silent piece</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Thousands
of lives were changed as a result of the book’s publication</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Skimming
is inherently discouraged. The technique makes one regard each word
independently</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>composers
learned that music that was not understood would be assumed profound</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>No
aspect of Cage’s music, I suspect, offended people more than what
was perceived as a deliberate abnegation of the ambitions a composer
was assumed to nurture</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Experimental
Music” article, of having had doubts himself. Cage, though, posits
a strict definition: music based on actions “the outcome of which
is not foreseen</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Cage,
instead, emphasizes the listener’s responsibility for the musical
experience, the extent to which the way one listens determines what
is heard</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Huang-Po’s
Doctrine of Transmission of Mind</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Part
of what keeps us all coming back to Silence, I suspect, is the
impossibility of answering these questions,</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Silence
is the traveler’s guide to that world</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>labyrinths
in whack</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Foreword</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Manifesto</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is a one page representation of Cage’s thinking, written for a
program booklet in Greenwich Village. I have done a screenshot of the
text so that it will retain the flavor.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjEmC4PdYXu6SSdg2wufg5xuJsHlgomIGNNUb4-IXDsfU1OslyMUMVg2cZM1GfxOd0LPd8PHcFy-Bhk9aWUBWZxHFs5WrjCvCfVhXuwGFqMojG4zdx5czJHI3EocgC6TBhiooijclciZ0l0btJ4GCj11pNZ_JE-k00gYx1yZ9IjjXllvr7auHU4LDnszU/s740/Cage-Silence-Program.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="740" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjEmC4PdYXu6SSdg2wufg5xuJsHlgomIGNNUb4-IXDsfU1OslyMUMVg2cZM1GfxOd0LPd8PHcFy-Bhk9aWUBWZxHFs5WrjCvCfVhXuwGFqMojG4zdx5czJHI3EocgC6TBhiooijclciZ0l0btJ4GCj11pNZ_JE-k00gYx1yZ9IjjXllvr7auHU4LDnszU/w640-h214/Cage-Silence-Program.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><p></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
you can see, his thinking is not traditional. One part can be
summarized by saying, do not expect anything out of what is called
music-you are not going to get anything. But I disagree. To a person
who believes there is a spiritual component to man, music can have
the effect of being transcendental, lifting a person beyond the
physical world we live in.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Future of Music: Credo </u></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
is being prophetic in this piece. It was originally given as a talk
in 1937 and printed in 1958. He takes us through the evolution of
electronic instruments. From replicating sounds made by existing
instruments evolving to having their own special sounds. He notes
that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
special function of electrical instruments will be to provide
complete control of the overtone structure of tones (as opposed to
noises) and to make these tones available in any frequency,
amplitude, and duration.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
emphasizes that music </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>WILL
BE EXPLORED. WHEREAS, IN THE PAST, THE POINT OF DISAGREEMENT HAS BEEN
BETWEEN DISSONANCE AND CONSONANCE, IT WILL BE, IN THE IMMEDIATE
FUTURE, BETWEEN NOISE AND SO-CALLED MUSICAL SOUNDS.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
looks at different types of instruments and thinks through what a
composer will do with them. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Experimental
Music</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks about labels-such as experimental music, composer, musician, …
He objected to some of the labels. That is until he </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>realized
that there is ordinarily an essential difference between making a
piece of music and hearing one.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He notes the difference as being the difference between someone who
has walked a path many times and knows it well and some one who is
marveling at each flower along the way, being their first time.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Experimental
music is defined by Cage as music which he is interested in. Does not
sound like a very good definition. Somewhat like interesting books
are only those books I am interested in. He does go on to say: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>For
in this new music nothing takes place but sounds.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Also he counts silence as sound as well as there is nothing truly
silent: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is a central fact to him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
has an infatuation with sound recorded on magnetic tape. He thinks
this is a game changer. Not only from the availability of music, but
also how music can be put together. Such as the ability to splice
tape to create something else. Or being able to mix sounds together
to create something new. I think he is right that the ability to
easily record changes things. But he saw this as the end of the line,
I wonder what he would have thought about digital records and the
ability to do things at the stroke of a key?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
position of a particular sound in this space being the result of five
determinants: frequency or pitch, amplitude or loudness, overtone
structure or timbre, duration, and morphology (how the sound begins,
goes on, and dies away.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He talks about this relentlessly in this collection of essays. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Any
sound at any point in this total sound-space can move to become a
sound at any other point. But advantage can be taken of these
possibilities only if one is willing to change one’s musical habits
radically</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
use the word “approximation” because a measuring mind can never
finally measure nature.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Sounds like Heisenberg.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Emotion
takes place in the person who has it.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage’s
music is based upon this: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>New
music: new listening. Not an attempt to understand something that is
being said, for, if something were being said, the sounds would be
given the shapes of words. Just an attention to the activity of
sounds.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Maybe I have a little mind, but at some level understanding has to
take place. At its extreme, I am thinking this sounds like
brainwashing if you take away a person’s ability to sort out what
they are hearing and just enter a state of mindlessness. He is
heavily influenced by Eastern thought, of Zen. He also was focused on
randomness.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
he did not want understanding, why write this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
goes without saying that dissonances and noises are welcome in this
new music.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
… </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>music
is not concerned with harmoniousness.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
To me this is the basic philosophical difference between Cage and me.
Cage tries to mimic the chaos of our world without resolution. He
seems to take a step back and says this is all there is. I see the
chaos and think that there was meant to be order and beauty. We have
just mucked things up. A Bach or Beethoven tries to make beauty from
the chaos of those who play different notes at different rhythms.
Cage tries to create as much dissonance as possible. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
play, however, is an affirmation of life—not an attempt to bring
order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but
simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is
so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of
its way and lets it act of its own accord.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Experimental
Music: Doctrine</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
Cage, the term experimental may or may not apply to music. It does
not apply to a composition a composer has worked on. To the composer,
the finished product is not experimental, but the results of his
experiments. But it may be experimental if the outcome is not known,
such as when you introduce randomness to the composition.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
sound accomplishes nothing without it life would not last out the
instant.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I do not understand this as a conclusion. Is a deaf person without
life?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
there is a series of questions and answers.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Composing’s
one thing, performing’s another, listening’s a third. What can
they have to do with one another?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This seems like the thing about if a tree in a forest falls without
anybody around, did it make a sound? If a composition is made but it
is not played, is it composition? If a play performs and nobody is
around, is it a performance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pitches
are not a matter of likes and dislikes.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
True, taken by themselves it is hard to say if it is a correct pitch.
But when put into relationship with another, then a person can have
pleasure or pain. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Who
said anything about themes? It is not a question of having something
to say</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>what
is the purpose of this “experimental” music? ANSWER: No
purposes. Sounds</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
is asked about dynamics. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>As
far as too loud goes: “follow the general outlines of the Christian
life.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What does this mean? Seems like a Christian life is repentance,
grace, faith, and acting as Christ would. What does this have to do
with what Cage is talking about? Or is Cage just trying to be smart
and talking nonsense?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
is asked about athematic music. He responds with: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Who
said anything about themes? It is not a question of having something
to say.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
If I understand correctly, Cage is saying music should not have a
voice, a reason, should just be. This would resonate with his view of
life-without purpose.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>QUESTION:
what is the purpose of this “experimental” music? ANSWER: No
purposes. Sounds.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Which raises the question, of why produce sounds?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Composition""
Process</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>I.
Changes</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
was one of the many hard to read essays in the book. Cage had a piece
called </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Music
of Changes.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
There was randomness in the piece, but the length of the piece was
fixed. Cage originally gave his essay as a lecture. He wanted the
lecture to be exactly the same length as the piece. So each line on
his essay would be read at a pace which would make it one second.
There were also blank lines where Cage did not speak. He would have
the composition playing in those intervals where he was not speaking.
I do not know what effect this had on his audience, but on me, it
made it difficult to read with any sense of continuity.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
mind (as opposed to the heart) (one’s ideas of order as opposed to
one’s spontaneous actions); </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">this
lecture gives the idea of how wrong the sound Cage makes is. it leads
to discord and discontinuity rather than beauty and understanding</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
give you an idea of what it is like to read this, here is how it
appeared in the ebook:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
for-</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>mal
concern was</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to
make the prog-</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>ress
from the end</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>of
a section</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to
its begin-</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>ning
seem inev-</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>itable</i></span></span></p>
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<p align="left" style="margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Between
Cages way of putting words on a page and his thoughts, it is hard
for me to follow what he says.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
deduc-</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>tion
might be made</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>that
there is a</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>tendency
in</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>my
composi-</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>tion
means away</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>from
ideas</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>of
order towards</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>no
ideas</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>of
order.</i></span></span></p>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
little I know of Cage, this seems to be true. He tends towards the
unordered. Such as turning on a radio to a random station for a
random length of time. It is my understanding that this is how he
views our world-disordered. But this is not how I see things. I see
that we are in a constant fight to regain order, pushing back from
disorder. This is something which separates humans from beasts.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
makes a comment that structure in music is no longer useful. I am not
sure if he is talking about a particular piece or all music. If it is
about a particular piece, if it is his, then he is the best judge of
that. But all music? I do not think so. If for no other purpose that
there needs to be a beginning and an end.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>what
happens</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to
a piece of</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>music
when it</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>is
purposeless-</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>ly
made?</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or
anything, if you think about it. If anything, this is an argument
for there is to be purpose in life? After all, isn’t music a
reflection on life?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>¶Though</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>in
the Music</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>for
Piano</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
have affirmed</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
absence of</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
mind as a</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>ruling
agent</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>from
the structure</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>and
method of the</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>composing</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>means,
its presence</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>with
regard to</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>material</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>is
made clear on</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>examining</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
sounds themselves.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
says that where the mind comes in is that the notes played are
more traditional sounds than sounds which would be off frequency.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some
of what Cage talks about was high-tech at the time. Such as
splicing in magnetic tape to get the feel for what he wanted. We
now have things like Audacity to mix and merge sounds together. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Noises</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>were
crotchets with-</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>out
stems.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
crotchet is a quarter note. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks about composing with the radio on as well as when friends
drop by. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Several</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>other
kinds of</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>sound
have been dis-</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>tasteful
to me:</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
works of Bee-</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>thoven,
Ital-</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>ian
bel can-</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>to,
jazz, and the</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Vibraphone.</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
seems rather narrow minded of him. Is he greater than Beethoven?
What did he find revulsive about his work? I can only think it was
the order he put into his compositions.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
are</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>occasions
for</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>experience,</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>and
this exper-</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>ience
is not</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>only
received</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>by
the ears but</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>by
the eyes too</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
is right on this. All the senses come into play in all which we
do. We cannot appreciate Beethoven without imagining the colors
his music evokes.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>II.
Indeterminacy</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
lecture is not about performance but about composition. His music is
written in such a way that even the same composition will appear
different in performance, and not just subtly the difference in two
master pianists performing the same piece. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
function of the performer in the case of “Music of Changes” is
that of a contractor who, following an architect’s blueprint,
constructs a building. …</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
is therefore not able to perform from his own center but must
identify himself insofar as possible with the center of the work as
written. “The Music of Changes” is an object more inhuman than
human, since chance operations brought it into being.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And that seems to be the search in Cage’s music, how to make things
as inhuman as possible. It is more mechanics and chance that artistry
and beauty.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
goes on to compare the performer to being a camera rather than the
photographer. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
function of the performer in the case of the Intersection 3 is that
of a photographer who on obtaining a camera uses it to take a
picture.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
does notes that when multiple performers are involved, then chance is
reduced as the performers must be synchronized. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks about </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ground</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
of Meister Echhart. But from what I can tell-I have not read Eckhart-
Eckhart was talking about how the soul searches for God, the God, in
the desert, the place of the wasteland. Why? Because there is so
little which comes between you and God. I do not see any of this
desire for God. Later on Cage quotes from Eckhart. It becomes clear
that the composer is to be the god of the performer. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is the possibility when people are crowded together that they will
act like sheep rather than nobly. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He wants to space out his groups so that each does not follow the
other’s lead. The conductor is not there to lead, but to give the
performer a sense of time. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
is it, Dr. Suzuki? We spend the evening asking you questions and
nothing is decided.” Dr. Suzuki smiled and said, “That’s why I
love philosophy: no one wins</i></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>III.
Communication</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
starts this paper off by giving credit to his quotes. But then he
notes that both the quantity of placement of the quotes are by
chance. This gets to the heart of what he says throughout his
writings. What he does is meaningless by itself. If something makes
sense, then it is by chance.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
then starts off by asking a series of questions. The questions do not
seem to be leading anywhere and appear to be chosen randomly. One of
those questions is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Are
we getting anywhere asking questions? </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Which I think is appropriate. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another
one of the questions is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>if
there are rules, who made them, I ask you?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is one of the better questions, as opposed to the frivolous
questions such as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
can, but may I?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Is
a truck passing by music?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In Cage’s canon, it is. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
then goes into a series of quotes. One of the quotes is: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>WHEN
WE SEPARATE MUSIC FROM LIFE WHAT WE GET IS ART.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I do not think this is true. It is when music helps us explain life,
when it enhances life it is art. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
ends this section with: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Is
it true there are no questions that are really important? </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
think how you answer this shows what you believe and how you live.
Then more meandering questions. Including this little bit of
self-introspection: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
do they call me a composer, then, if all I do is ask questions.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND I AM SAYING IT. </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
says that the listener's experience is a complex thing which is
beyond the composer’s control. When you think about an audience,
many factors play into that experience. The hall, the location of the
person, the general state of the audience, to name a few.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of Cage’s favorite themes is silence. He notes that WHEN SILENCE IS
NOT EVIDENCE, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>THE
WILL OF THE COMPOSER IS. INHERENT SILENCE IS EQUIVALENT TO DENIAL OF
THE WILL</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
concludes this with a story about visiting Puget Sound. They went to
Anacortes Island and saw </span></span><a href="https://parks.wa.gov/find-parks/state-parks/deception-pass-state-park"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Deception
Pass.</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
While they were there, some tourist came up and said </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
to another, “You come all this way and then when you get here
there’s nothing to see.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Sort of like what Jesus said to those when he told his parables, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Let
them who have ears to hear, let them hear.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Composition</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
Describe the Process of Composition Used In Music of Changes and
Imaginary Landscape No.4 f 57</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks about how he generates his unpredictability by tossing 3 coins
six times to get 262,144 possible combinations. But that is not what
he is aiming for. He has a method where he creates an eight by eight
chart to determine how a piece will be played. He has a set of rules
about how this will be done. This gives duration, pitch and other
things for the piece. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
strives to give a piece without individual taste, memory or
traditions. Hence, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Value
judgments are not in the nature of this work as regards either
composition, performance, or listening. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
“mistake” is beside the point, for once anything happens it
authentically is</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
did not have this, but in today’s environment, the performer is
obsolete as the composer can just program this into a computer to
give the performance the composer is envisioning. If one was to think
hard enough, one could see that a computer would be able to do away
with the composer. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
a Christian, this is the exact opposite of the Genesis story. God
created man with allo of his individuality. Cage is trying to do away
with that and create things which no longer possess anything human
about it.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>To
Describe the Process of Composition Used in Music for Piano 21-52 /
60</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Forerunner.
of Modem Music</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
defines music as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>edifying,
from time to time it sets the soul in operation.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This does not seem to be what Cage’s music does. It seems to be
more dehumanizing than building up the soul.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
asked why, God being good, there was evil in the world, Sri
Ramakrishna said: To thicken the plot.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Seems like a very callous answer.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
this essay, Cage goes through and gives a series of sections,
breaking apart how music is composed. Such as under Random, he says
that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Music
means nothing as a thing.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I think this is an extension of what he is trying to do. Dehumanize
music. By inference, he thinks humans do not have eternal meaning, so
why should its music? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I do not understand this statement. Is he saying that once a
composition is finished, it is dead? He then goes on with a
hierarchy:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Better
to compose than perform</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Better
to perform than listen</span></span></p></li><li><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Better
to listen than to misuse music for </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>distraction,
entertainment or culture.</i></span></span></p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
is the purpose of music? That gets back to his first statement-music
means nothing. So how are things better?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>History
of Experimental Music in the United States</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
past does not influence me, I influence it. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is a quote from Dr. WIllem De Kooning. This seems a bit presumptuous.
He does not recognize the forces which brought him to his current
place. But there is a recognition that you interpret how you see the
past. Such as the conversation the United States has about slavery.
That has a wide variation depending on how you view slavery in the
United States,</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
reviews various composers. He indicates that it is no longer
necessary to study old European influences. Such as what Christian
Wolff did when </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
he discovered other geometrical means for freeing his music of
intentional continuity.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>History
is the story of original actions </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Erik
Satie</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Edgard
Varese</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who
is </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Var%C3%A8se"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>EDGARD
VARÈSE</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
said that music is organized sound. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>For
those who are interested in sounds just as they are, apart from
psychology about them, one must look further for Varèse’s present
relevance.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Four
Statements on the Dance</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
notes that it was hard for composers to get their new music played.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
was evident that musicians interested in new music were rare.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I can understand if the performers thought that they were more like
robots than artists.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Goal:
New Music, New Dance</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
was written in 1939. Cage was interested in getting rhythm and
percussion more than just something to keep time with. Then he says
that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Tomorrow,
with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But do we really have freedom? Now all we hear is dissonance and
noise which rarely brings us closer to being human.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Grace
and Clarity</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Personality
is a flimsy thing on which to build an art.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He does not mean that personality should not enter into art but that
it is not the basis for a work. The</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, with all their departure from
tradition, enable the reader to breathe with them.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Clarity
is cold, mathematical, inhuman, but basic and earthy. Grace is warm,
incalculable, human, opposed to clarity, and like the air. Grace is
not here used to mean prettiness; it is used to mean the play with
and against the clarity of the rhythmic structure.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for
four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so
on. Eventually one discovers that it’s not boring at all but very
interesting</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">=====================</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is where my notes stop. Any additional items below this are
interesting things I found in this book. I only read about two-thirds
of the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>In
This Day</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>2
Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>On
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, and His Work 98</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Beauty
is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
know two ways to unfocus attention: symmetry is one of them; the
other is the over-all where each small part is a sample of what you
find elsewhere. In either case, there is at least the possibility of
looking anywhere, not just where someone arranged you should </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Art
is the imitation of nature in her manner of operation </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>visit
on the part of the stranger (who is divine </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
does Cage mean that this stranger is divine?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>You
have then turned on the switch that distinguishes man, his ability to
change his mind: If you do not change your mind about something when
you confront a picture you have not seen before, you are either a
stubborn fool or the painting is not very good </i></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Where
does beauty begin and where does it end? </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lecture
on Nothing / 109</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lecture
on Something 128</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Let
no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Make
judgments but accept the consequences.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>But
the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking
and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>45'
for a Speaker</u></span></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
highest purpose is to have no purpose at all </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
thing to do with time is this: Measure it. </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Earth’s
no escape from Heaven.” </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Therefore
error is a fiction, has, no reality, 10″ in fact. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I do not understand how he can make his statement. it seems like he
is building to a general statement , but he maybe only talking about
composing.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
runs the risk of falling into a marasm of idea if one goes on
composing without discovering </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is all the time in the world for studying music, 10″ but
for living there is scarcely any time at all. 20″ For living
takes place each instant </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
myself tend to think of catching trains more than Christianity </i></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is no 20″ such thing as silence. Something is al- ways
happening that makes a sound. </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
41′00″ haven’t the slightest idea of what is good in the
world, but instead quite passively, & often against what might
be considered a better judgment, accepts what happens. </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Where
Are We Going? and What Are We Doing? / 194</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Indeterminacy
f 260</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Music
Lover' Field Companion / 274</u></span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
book group read John O’Connell’s </span></span><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Bowie’s
Bookshelf</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
We each decided to read one of the books talked about on the
Bookshelf. I chose John Cage’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Silence:
Lectures and Writings.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
My choice of this book goes back 50+ years ago when I was in high
school and I heard one of Cage’s pieces-I do not remember which
one. As a college freshman, I played a recording of Cage for my
existential roommates. They thought it was rubbish. And now I am back
to exploring the thought behind his pieces.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
suspect that I really did not comprehend the depth of Cage, so this
review may be more about my perception than his writing. I only got
about two-thirds of the way through the book. It is a difficult book
to read. Both from the conceptual and philosophical perspective
presented, as well as from physically reading the material. Many of
the essays in the book were lectures given to an audience, almost
like a performance. Cage played around with the syntax to coordinate
with his concepts of silence and randomness. For example, the chapter
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>I.
Changes</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
was written in columns. Each line was to be read at a pace of one per
second. When completed, it would be exactly the same length in time
as one of his compositions. There were places where only a word or
two was on a line or even lines left blank. This was to indicate
pauses for silence. Not so much for drama, but in the spirit of
randomness. It made for difficult reading.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">About
the time I listened to Cage, I became a Christian. My world view is
different from Cage’s. From what I can tell, Cage did not think
there was too much meaning in the world and definitely there was no
meaning in music (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Music
means nothing as a thing).</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He used music as a catalyst to other things. He emphasized randomness
and silence, not as a brief interlude but as foundational. At each
turn, the path which Cage would choose would dehumanize the
performers, the listeners. They were expected to be mechanical in
nature, not adding their own artistry.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
one point in my notes, I wrote it seems like Cage is doing the
opposite of what God did in the Genesis story. According to Genesis,
God put his spirit into humans. Cage wants to remove any spirit from
the music.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
you are a follower of modern music, Cage or philosopher, then this
book is probably a worthwhile read. For the rest of us, I would keep
a bottle of aspirin by your side, just being careful not to overdose
on it.</span></span></p>
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<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cage
saw the potential in electronic musical instruments. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
special function of electrical instruments will be to provide
complete control of the overtone structure of tones (as opposed to
noises) and to make these tones available in any frequency,
amplitude, and duration.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Do you think he foresaw the state we are in now? Do you think he
would appreciate the use of electronic devices to both compose and
perform with?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
central fact for Cage is that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Explain what he means. Do you agree? What difference does it make?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
makes Beethoven distasteful to Cage? Would that apply to other
composers of the period?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Should
a composition have meaning? Purpose? What gives it meaning if you
think so? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
second major theme is randomness. He consulted charts and the
flipping of pennies to produce a quasi-randomness. Do you think a
composition which has meaning can be composed this way? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
talking about his compositions, he says that the performer of some of
his compositions are more like a contractor reading blueprints than
the architecture envisioning the building. He then looks at the
performer as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>an
object more inhuman than human, since chance operations brought it
into being.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Would you perform one of Cage’s compositions? Why is Cage making
the performers inhuman?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Emotion
takes place in the person who has it.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In Cage’s view, music itself does not have emotion or intrinsic
value. What is the relationship between music and a person’s
emotions? Is Cage right? Does a particular piece have the ability to
bring out emotions? Or is this manufactured by a person?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the introduction, it is said that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Thousands
of lives were changed as a result of the book’s publication. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
your life affected by reading this book? How so? Why do you think
others might be affected? I routinely ask at the end of a book,</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
How do you want your life to change because you read this book?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How should it be changed?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Silence</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
central ideas does the author present?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
they personal, sociological, global, political, economic, spiritual,
medical, or scientific</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
these idea’s controversial? </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
whom and why?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is the culture described in this book different than where we live?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
economic or political situations are described?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author examine economics and politics, family traditions, the
arts, religious beliefs, language or food?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p> <br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>anechoic
chamber</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-a
room designed to stop reflections or echoes of either sound or
electromagnetic waves</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">dodecaphonic-a
method of musical composition first devised by Austrian composer
Josef Matthias Hauer, who published his "law of the twelve
tones" in 1919</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">athematic-not
based on the use of themes.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">atonality-the
absence of functional harmony as a primary structural element.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">dymaxion-a
portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension; sums up the
goal of his study, "maximum gain of advantage from minimal
energy input.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Synchronicity-the
simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related
but have no discernible causal connection.</span></span></li></ul>
<br /><br /><div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>New
Musical Resources</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Henry Cowell</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Essays
before a Sonata</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Charles Ives</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Genesis
of a Music</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Harry Partch</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
Ching</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
Year from Monday</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by John Cage</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
Is Metaphysics</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Heidegger</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Experimental
Music: Cage and Beyond</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Michael Nyman</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Evil
and Silence</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Essay
on Rime</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Chinese
Book of Changes</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Intersections</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Morton Feldman</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Desiderata</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by </span></span>Max Ehrmann (poem)</li><li>
<i>A History of Haiku Volume One</i> by R.H. BLYTHE</li><li>
Joe Campbell’s books on mythology</li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Silence
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
John Cage is the book I’ve reread the most often in my life.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: It behooves us therefore to see each thing directly as it is,
be it the sound of a tin whistle or the elegant </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lepiota
procern.</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emotion
takes place in the person who has it. Chp Experimental Music </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is the possibility when people are crowded together that they will
act like sheep rather than nobly. Chp II. Indeterminacy</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Personality
is a flimsy thing on which to build an art. Chp Grace and Clarity</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beauty
is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look. Chp On Robert
Rauschenberg, Artist, and His Work</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where
does beauty begin and where does it end? Chp On Robert
Rauschenberg, Artist, and His Work</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Foreword
to 50th Anniversary Edition</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Foreword
/ ix</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Manifesto
/ xii</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Future of Music: Credo / 3</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Experimental
Music / 7</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Experimental
Music: Doctrine / 13</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Composition""
Process / 18</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I.
Changes / 18</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">II.
Indeterminacy / 35</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">III.
Communication / 41</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Composition
/ 57</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
Describe the Process of Composition Used In Music</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of
Changes and Imaginary Landscape No.4 f 57</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
Describe the Process of Composition Used in Music</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for
Piano 21-52 / 60</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Forerunner.
of Modem Music / 62</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">History
of Experimental Music in the United States f 67</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Erik
Satie f 76</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Edgard
Varese / 83</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Four
Statements on the Dance / 86</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Goal:
New Music, New Dance f 87</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grace
and Clarity /_89</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
This Day … / 94</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2
Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance / 96</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, and His Work / 98</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lecture
on Nothing / 109</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lecture
on Something f 128</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">45'
for a Speaker / 146</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where
Are We Going? and What Are We Doing? / 194</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Indeterminacy
f 260</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Music
Lover' Field Companion / 274</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<br />
<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://www.weslpress.org/9780819573650/silence/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://www.johncage.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence:_Lectures_and_Writings"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Boo</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">k</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silence-Lectures-Writings-50th-Anniversary/dp/0819571768"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/music/player/artists/B000QJO7AY/john-cage?isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/silence-john-cage/1102081376"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/765651.Silence"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/47403.John_Cage"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://monoskop.org/images/b/b5/Cage_John_Silence_Lectures_and_Writings.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Monoskop
</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">=
pdf of the book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reddit
</span></span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/140g0is/discussion_on_silence_lectures_and_writings_by/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>discussion</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-silence-lectures-and-writings/#gsc.tab=0"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book
Rags</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/book_reviews/e73c1c1c-4baa-4159-9896-515caf08aa27https://app.thestorygraph.com/book_reviews/e73c1c1c-4baa-4159-9896-515caf08aa27"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Story Graph</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-8d5b657c-7fff-11c0-51f2-8258cb152fa4" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Henrik Ibsen, translated by Rolf Fjelde</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: Paperback</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Signet Classic</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9780486426860 (ISBN10: 0486426866)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: July 31, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: August 7, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">253 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Play, Book Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 4 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Tells a good story: 3 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Character development: 4 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis (<span style="color: #cc0000;">Caution: Spoiler Alert</span>-Jump to <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/08/peer-gynt.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a>):</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ibsen
takes us through Peer Gynt’s life from the time he was a young man
to close to his death. While not a biography, but more of an idea of
his character. Peer Gynt’s character is not one of outstanding
citizenship. He drinks too much, he is a teller of stories without a
useful trade.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
opening act had Peer Gynt stealing a bride at a wedding, leaving his
mother stranded on top of a building. After stealing the bride, he
abandons her. He then befriends another young woman. But before
something happens there, Peer Gynt goes off with a mysterious Lady in
Green. Turns out she is a troll and her father is the Troll King.
Peer Gynt is willing to live with the trolls, up to a point. He
escapes, but not before the female troll is with child. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt then lives out in the woods with Solveig, the woman who he
befriended in the woods. But the Lady in Green comes to Peer Gynt and
tells him she will always be with him. He leaves everything, makes
his fortune in the United States on a plantation, selling slaves. He
sells out, goes to Morocco to get involved in the Greek-Turkish civil
war, but his friends betray him and run off with his ship.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt then finds a horse and fortune only to have it stolen by a slave
girl. He hears some mysterious words from an Egyptian statue.
Followed by almost being taken captive in an insane asylum. He is on
a ship to return home, but then the ship sinks. He and the cook have
grabbed hold of a plank which can only support one person. Gynt kicks
him off and Gynt is rescued. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
final act has him meeting with the Button-Molder, a character which
melts down souls which are not bad enough for hell and not good
enough for heaven, for their essence to be used again. Gynt convinces
him to let him go and make a list of his sins to show how bad he is.
As much as Gynt tries, he cannot find anybody to vouch for him either
way. The Button-Molder comes to him several times, but Gynt convinces
him to have a little more time. Gynt comes to a house where he hears
singing and it is Solveig. She pronounces him free from any sin.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt-pronounced Pair Gunt. Aase son. Maker of tales, very muscular,
drunker, spent his family money, like his father</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aase-Peer
Gynt’s mother, somewhat a shrew</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aslak-village
blacksmith</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ingrid-bride
of Mads Moen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mads
Moen-bridegroom</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Solveig-human
who stays true to Peer Gynt. Name means house or sun and strength or
way.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Woman
in Green/Old Woman-Troll King’s daughter</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Troll
King-self explanatory</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boyg-A
voice in the Darkness</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ugly
Brat-Peer Gynt’s son through the Lady in Green</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anitra-slave
girl who Peer Gynt is interested in.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Threadballs-the
fruit of his thoughts</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://allpoetry.com/journal/10906391-Henrik-Ibsen-s--Peer-Gynt-s-Button-Moulder--by-Kevin-Anthony"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Button-molder</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Peer
Gynt’s life is to be molded down and reused again.</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Over
fifty years ago while in high school I read everything I could get my
hands on by Ibsen. I am sure I did not understand what Ibsen was
doing then. Hopefully I have gained a bit more insight about how to
read a book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our
book group is reading </span></span><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Bowie’s
Bookshelf</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by John O’Connell O’Connell tries to identify the books which
inspired Bowie’s songs. Our assignment is to read a book which
inspired music and read the book. I am reading Peer Gynt with that in
mind. Edvard Greig wrote a piece called the Peer Gynt Suite. Its
opening has to be one of the best opening movements ever performed.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are a lot of Christian references in this play. Many of them seem to
be misquotes. In the introduction to the book, it is noted that Ibsen
went on a retreat writing this play. He took along only a Bible to
read. But do not get the idea this is a Christian play. It may have
some of the references and influences of Christianity, but it is not.
Such as the concept of the Button Molder where souls get refined to
their essence-evil or good. Not Christian. Nor is Gynt’s life an
exercise in seeking righteousness-he seems to live only for himself. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
closest which we come is the faithful Solveig who is always ready to
take Gynt back, no matter what the misdeeds are. I wonder if Solveig
is like the Church, when we operate right. Willing to take back the
sinner, forgiving the sin as Christ has forgiven us, and always
trying to woo the person back into its fold.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Act
One</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
One</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt meets up with his mother. He and his clothing is worse for wear,
ripped and all. He comes up with a story. His mother realizes she has
heard this story before by someone else. He denies this is a copy.
All of this is to cover that he has had a losing streak. His mother
is on to his ways of being loose with their money.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
tells him that at one time Ingrid took a fancy to him, but now she is
getting married to Mads. Peer Gynt takes off after plopping his mom
on a rouf to keep her out of the way.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
telling remark made by Peer Gynt says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>one’s
luck has losing streaks only to spring up good as new!</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He feels like he will lose, but will rebond and win. There is no
sense that he earns what happens to him nor does it lead to him
working harder, but lets things happen to him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Two</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
meets up with some of the townspeople as both are on the way to the
wedding. They know him and he is made fun of because he is such a
loser.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Three</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
bride is hiding from the groom. Peer Gynt is being shunned by
everyone. He makes off with the bride, slung over his shoulder.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Act
Two</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
One</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scene
between Ingrid and Peer Gynt. Peer Gynt is driving Ingrid away as he
is tired of her. He has had his thrill of seduction. She tells him
there is a price to be paid for this: his death.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Memories!
The devil makes his home in them; he lives in every woman--All but
one---!</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Gynt does not name this one. But there is a kernel of truth in the
term memories. They are good to think about, but they can also lead
to depression. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Two</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aase
tells her woes, but is loyal to her son. While Solveig’s mother and
father think Peer Gynt is a scoundrel who does not deserve his
mother. Solveig wants to know more about him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Three</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
mob is after Peer Gynt. He meets three girls and sleeps with them.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Four</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt goes to the Ronde Mountains which are part of the Dorve Range.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Five</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Lady in Green meets Peer Gynt. They are infatuated with each other.
The Lady notes that in her father’s kingdom everything can be seen
two ways. Such as the pig they are riding into the castle is imagined
to be a stallion. But then there is the CS Lewis retort in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>That
Hideous Strength:</i></span></span></p>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.</i></span></span></p>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Eh?
Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know
the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Six</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Royal
Hall of the Troll King. The Lady in Green is the Troll King’s
daughter. Peer Gynt wants a kingdom so this is one way to becoming a
king. But the price to be paid is the Peer Gynt needs to become a
troll and see things like a troll. Peer Gynt is willing to do a lot,
such as eat and drink like a troll, even wear a tail like a troll.
But when it means seeing things like a troll, he wants out and is
attacked.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
he sees is a cow and a sow-this is the Lady in Green and her stead.
He sees things in human terms. The Troll King will alter his
eyesight.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt was asked </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What’s
the difference between a troll and a man? </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Peer Gyntt says that he can see no difference. But the Troll King
says that there is a difference: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[a
man]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>:
“Man, to yourself be true!” While here, under our mountain roof,
We say: “Troll, to yourself be--enough!”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The notes at the back of the book as this coming from Augustine. That
this was the fundamental fall of Man. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Seven</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt escapes when the church bells ring. Very symbolic that the
church will free you.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
now encounters the Boyg, the bodiless, faceless voice. Peer Gynt
wants to go straight through; Boyg wants him to go around. When
asked who the Boyg is? The only response is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Myself.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Boyg’s self description is rather all encompassing and also not
very helpful as a description. But one thing the Boyg will not fight,
even if it is attacked. Its method seems to encompass.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
the end, the Boyg says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
was too strong. There were women behind him.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Eight</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Solveig
and her sister are waiting for Peer Gynt, but run when he approaches.
They are the ones who rang the church bells.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<br />
</p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Act
Three</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
One</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is
Peer Gynt going insane? He is attacking a tree. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Two</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because
of Peer Gynt defiling Ingrid, Aase is left destitute. Almost
everything has been stripped of her belongings, even much of her
clothing. She can retain the house until she dies.</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Three</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt has built a house. Solveig comes along and commits to stay with
him. But then an old lady and a ugly brat come along. Peer Gynt then
understands that this is the Lady in Green and his child. She vows
that whenever he gets close to Solveig, she will slip in between.
Peer Gynt runs away, leaving Solveig.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Four</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt comes to see his mother. She dies as he is telling a prophetic
story about her going to St Peter’s.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<br />
</p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Act
Four</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
One</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Essentially
Peer Gynt has run away. He has grown rich by becoming an owner of a
plantation and trading slaves. He has traded idols to the Chinese
while alleviating his conscience by allowing passage of missionaries
there as well. Now he is in Morocco with his friends. He says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
man is made for pleasure, let his pleasure thrive. … the past is
dead. What’s done is done.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He wants to rule the world. He wants to rule the world through money.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
says that One needs a faith in something sure---</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
took religion, in little sips; It goes down easier that way.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His
plans are to intervene with his wealth in the Greek-Turkish Civil
War-on the side of the Turks. His friends are all for intervention,
on the side of the Greeks. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Two</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
friends steal his yacht. He prays for justice and gets frustrated.
Says that God is always busy and deaf someplace else than where he
wants him to be. And the yacht blows up.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
wondered about Ibsen here. What is he trying to say? Does God listen?
What kind of God does Ibsen think he is writing about? It almost
seems farcical. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Three</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
emperor’s horse and riches are gone</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Four</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Still
in Morocco. But he does not have anything to survive on. He asks the
central point of the book: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
is man anyway? </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He is trying to beat off a pack of monkeys. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Five</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
stumbles upon a cache which some thieves have left, including a
horse. He assumes this is for him and makes off with it</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Six</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Prophet has come-Peer Gynt. He is surrounded by affluence in Morocco.
He is infatuated with Anita, a slave girl. He starts to be very
giving towards her.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Seven</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
tries to seduce Anita, in reality it is Anitra who has seen through
him and seduced him. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Eight</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
lets her be in possession of everything of his. She runs off with his
horse, leaving him with nothing.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Nine</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reflection
on being taken.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Ten</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
woman says she will be true to her love, even though he has left
her-this is a soliloquy (Solveig and Peer Gynt)</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Eleven</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
is now in Egypt, </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossi_of_Memnon"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Memnon’s
Statue</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
He hears the statue speak to him-this phenomena has been reported in
other places, most reliably around 196AD. It tells him a riddle</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Twelve</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks to a German. The German asks what he is? Peer Gynt says </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
is he? Nothing to that. He’s himself.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The German proclaims him to be The Interpreter’s Emperor.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Thirteen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now
in Cairo. The German is really the keeper of an insane asylum. Peer
Gynt is lead in and has conversations with several inmates. He
decides this is not his place.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Act
Five</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
One</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt is sailing back to Norway. He offers the crew additional money,
which the captain said will be appreciated since they all have
families to feed. He withdraws the offer. There is a storm. A strange
passenger talks about death. The Captain said that Peer Gynt is the
only passenger. The ship is being driven into some reefs.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Two</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
cook and Peer Gynt are clinging to an overturned boat. Peer Gynt
forces him off so that the boat will remain afloat. The stranger
passenger comes alongside Peer Gynt and talks amore with him. The
passenger comments that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>No
one dies half way through the last act.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Three</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt is passing by a funeral. He listens a long way into the sermon.
The pastor says that the person </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he
was great because he was himself.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The theme of the play. It turns out that earlier Peer Gynt saw a man
cut off his finger so that he would not need to serve in the
Norwegian Army against Prussia. The funeral was for this man. The
pastor notes that he is no longer a cripple.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Now
thats what I call Christianity! Nothing unpleasant to jar the mind.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
That seems to be a watered down version of Christianity. It should
jar oneself to the whole being.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Four</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
meets up with people whom he used to know and they are talking about
Peer Gynt.They do not recognize him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Five</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt comes back to his hut. Solveig is there. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>No
second chance to play! Oh dread--! Here’s where my empire lay.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Six</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt is now faced with his life. He is faced with his children-who
were forsaken. Then there are withered leaves which are the things
Peer Gynt should have spoken and done. The air sighed with the things
which should have brought joy, but are now poisoned. Dewdrops of
tears which should have been shed, but are now just a barb in the
bone. Broken Straw-deeds which should have been done. His mother’s
cry saying she has been misled with all the tales Peer Gynt told.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Seven</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt meets the Button-Molder. The Button-Molder is one which takes a
life, distalls all which is solid in it and what is left is used for
another life. Only the truly wicked and truly good will go on to
their destination.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt wants to show that he has been himself all his life. He wants to
get testimonies about this. The Button-Molder is not convinced this
will happen, but lets him go off until the next crossroads.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Eight</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt meets the Troll King who is now a broken down old man. The Troll
King has been usurped by his grandson. Peer Gynt wants a reference
from the Troll King that he had been true to himself. But that is not
how the King remembers it. He says that Peer Gynt acted much more
like a troll than a human. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Nine</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt is at the crossroads again. Peer Gynt asks the Button-Molder,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
is it, “to be yourself”, in truth?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He answers:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
To be yourself is to sly yourself. … So let’s say: to make your
life evolve from the Master’s meaning to the last detail. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The Peer Gynt asks, but how does a person know what he is made for?
The answer is that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
has intuitions.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
A person does not get to start over. Peer Gynt wants to find a priest
to confess to. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Scene
Ten</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead
of a priest, Peer Gynt starts walking with a cloves-hoof devil. The
devil rejects him as not having enough sin to waste fuel on.The devil
notes that the pickings are lean. Gynt asks, is it because the race
has been getting better? No it is because they are not very much of
anything.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Devil
is looking for Peer Gynt. Peer Gynt sends him down to the Cape. He
meets up with the Button-Molder again. They travel along when Peer
Gynt hears a woman singing and realizes this is where he can get a
list of his sins. The Button-Molder gives him one more chance.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
comes to his hut and finds Soleig there. She says there was no sin.
That he has made her life a beautiful song. Peer Gynt asks her to
solve a riddle: Where has he been this many a year? She says: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
my faith, in my hope, and in my love.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Button-Molder says that he will meet Peer Gynt at the final
crossroads.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
wonder about this scene. I wonder if Ibsen has Solveig being almost
like the Church where you sin and live your life. Rather than driving
you away, the sins are forgiven and you are welcomed back in. But I
may be reading too much into this.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
first read this play in high school and I am sure I did not
understand it like I do now and I am not sure that I understand it
really well now. But it is a play well worth reading, if for no other
reason to examine your own life like Peer Gynt had to do at the end
of his.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt is a scoundrel. He steals both things and women. He is a slaver
and care not for the rightness of a side, only the money which could
be gotten. Even when life is at stake, he only cares about his own
and none of others. And yet at the end, he is definitely not good
enough to be a saint, but not bad enough to be condemned. In other
words, his life is worthless and will soon be remade into someone
else's life. What Gynt fears most is oblivion and that is what he is
facing.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
end it is the love of his wife whom he long ago left is what counts
for him. Even as far away as Peer Gynt has been, Solveig says that he
has been </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
my faith, in my hope, and in my love.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And that is how Ibsen leaves us, to realize that if anything is to
save us, it is love.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt says in Act One, Scene 1 that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>one’s
luck has losing streaks only to spring up good as new!</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How is this sentence representative of Gynt’s life in this play?
Is this way of living sustainable? Desirable? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Lady in Green notes that everything in her father’s kingdom can be
seen in two ways. What significance does this have? Is Isben trying
to relay a message to us? What </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
is the difference between a troll and a man? The Troll King says:
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[a
man]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>:
“Man, to yourself be true!” While here, under our mountain roof,
We say: “Troll, to yourself be--enough!”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Talk about the difference? What is being true to yourself?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peer
Gynt escapes the trolls when the church bells ring. What significance
is this?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Gynt faces the Boyg, the Boyg says that he is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>myself!</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What kind of answer is that? Why is the Boyg an obstacle for Gynt? In
Egypt, Gynt gives almost the same answer when asked, who he is. And
then Gynt passes a funeral where the minister says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[the
dead man]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
was great because he was himself.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
is Ibsen saying?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
Morocco, Peer Gynt asks the question, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
is man anyway?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
How does Gynt/Ibsen answer that question? What is a person made for
in Ibsen’s view?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ibsen,
when writing this play, went on a retreat, only taking a Bible for
reading. Where in the play do you see Christian influence? Do you
think the influence was true to Christianity as you know it? Note: At
one place Gynt says: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Now
thats what I call Christianity! Nothing unpleasant to jar the mind.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Peer Gynt interacts with the Button Molder, what criteria does the
Button Molder use to judge a life? How does Peer Gynt stack up? Why
is Gynt afraid of how the Button Molder evaluates him? How does that
stack up with the reality of the end of life as you know it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Solveig
is faithful to Peer Gynt, even after a period of years. This goes
from when they first meet to the ringing of church bells to absolving
Gynt. Why does she still love Gynt and forgive his sins? Is Solveig a
representation of something? </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are only a few mentions of God in this book, such as Peer Gynt
thinking that God is too busy to give revenge upon his friends for
stealing his ship. How does Ibsen portray God? How does Isben have
God act in this play?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Peer
Gynt</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work? Or is there something missing?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
there anybody you would consider religious?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did they show it?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
the book overtly religious?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did it affect the book's story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this play?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p> </div><div>
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<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: Peer, your lying!</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: Sleep and dream, my dearest boy!</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_Gynt"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Peer-Gynt-Henrik-Ibsen/dp/1542856418"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Henrik-Ibsen/author/B000AQ4LFE?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279221.Peer_Gynt?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=F8HULqqcZS&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2730977.Henrik_Ibsen"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Washington
Post </span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/01/27/peerless-peer-gynt/e3d5156f-bb7e-49be-9b44-8ed3e7c7d989/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://en.lillehammer.com/things-to-do/into-norway/cultural-heritage-and-attractions/the-history-of-peer-gynt-by-henrik-ibsen"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lillehammer</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.supersummary.com/peer-gynt/summary/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>SuperSummary</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.norwegianibsencompany.com/peer-gynt/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Norwegian Ibsen Company</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Peer-Gynt-play-by-Ibsen"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Britannica</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">YouTube=Commentary
by </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dkBrcefQPw"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Michael
Tilson Thomas</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-commentary
on relationship with Greig and Ibsens story, </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ0Ms5PNZmU"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Amherst
2017 production</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
of the play and music by Grieg </span></span>
</li></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-45585406381907299362023-07-23T18:25:00.037-07:002023-07-30T18:36:28.601-07:00Homicide in the House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChDk_bxqJsZN8WNOaSh_A0aBdDNp5j7ehJ0WaSmfKwqiDYl9_vy8hyqYFmflNYUXM_w0Lh1g0H8ippvIE0BIOkJNJV6Y_5J9gaV0rfwUzvsbtq_FMIkwyuDDRY042Z0v5x7KZuKo_OsrofJm-6Sf0vITVuu3AFSnL8m2yajVE1rXYoYkPyzB04ccaR0s/s1000/71+SMAraH2L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="625" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChDk_bxqJsZN8WNOaSh_A0aBdDNp5j7ehJ0WaSmfKwqiDYl9_vy8hyqYFmflNYUXM_w0Lh1g0H8ippvIE0BIOkJNJV6Y_5J9gaV0rfwUzvsbtq_FMIkwyuDDRY042Z0v5x7KZuKo_OsrofJm-6Sf0vITVuu3AFSnL8m2yajVE1rXYoYkPyzB04ccaR0s/s320/71+SMAraH2L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p><b>Book: Homicide in the House: Washington Whodunit #2</b></p><div>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/homicide-in-house.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/homicide-in-house.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/homicide-in-house.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/homicide-in-house.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/homicide-in-house.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/homicide-in-house.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/homicide-in-house.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/homicide-in-house.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-19eaab67-7fff-e9e8-b47d-cba2b686ce26" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Colleen J. Shogan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Libby from the Los Angeles Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Camel Press</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 258</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: July 20, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: July 23, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">258 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Fiction, Mystery</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Tells a good story: 3 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Character development: 3 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis (<span style="color: #cc0000;">Caution: Spoiler Alert</span>-Jump to <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/homicide-in-house.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a>):</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kit
Marshall now works for Representative Dixon from North Carolina.
Dixon finds a very important staffer killed with the Speaker’s
gavel. She is the prime suspect. Kit tracks down the the murderer
from very little clues. At the end she is associated and abducted by
the murderer. She manages to free herself and gets the murderer
apprehended.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maeve
Dixon-Freshman representative from North Carolina, accused of murder
of Jack Drysdale. Ex-military. Very literal.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kit
Marshall-Maeve Dixon’s Legislative Director</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dan-Chief
of Staff for Maeve Dixon’s office. Naive and easily panicked. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jack
Drysdale-Chief of Staff for the Speaker of the House, most powerful
Congressional staffer, terse and somewhat a bully. Murder victim</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jordan
Macintyre-Jack Drysdale’s husband. Popular chef</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doug
Hollingsworth-live-in boyfriend of Kit Marshall</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Meg
Peters-friend of Kit Marshall</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Judy
Talent-chief of staff of a powerful representative, rival of Drysdale</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trevor-intelligent
semi-friend of Kit Marshall. Lobbyist for a powerful defense
contractor</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trent
Roscoe- assistant to the Sergeant of Arms for the House of
Representatives</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gareth
Pressler-Sergeant of Arms for the House of Representatives</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Detective
O’Halloran-investigating murder of Jack Drysdale</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hill
Rat-an anonymous blogger who mysteriously knew everybody’s secret</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clarence-Kit
and Doug’s beagle</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Melinda
Gomez-Former student of Doug. Assistant Superintendent in the press
gallery</span></span></li></ul><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;">
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shogan
does good descriptions of life in Washington DC and particularly the
Capitol area. She should. She worked as a Congressional staffer
before becoming head of the National Archives.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author continues what she does in the first book-naming all the
great, and not so great, detective sleuths she can think of.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
adversarial relationship between Doug and Meg seems forced and
contrived. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Places
Mentioned:</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortilla_Coast"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><u>Tortilla
Coas</u></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">t-Popular
place. Closed down at the start of the pandemic.</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://wethepizza.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>We
the Pizza</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Spike
Mendelohn place</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.greenpigbistro.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Green
Pig Bistro</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g28970-d940727-Reviews-Pete_s_Diner-Washington_DC_District_of_Columbia.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Pete’s
Diner</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://tuneinndc.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Tune
Inn</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.hawkndovebardc.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Hawk
n’ Dove</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
One</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sets
the scene that the Federal Government is about to shut down because
there is an impasse between the the parties in Congress and the
President. It is a time of rising tensions. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Homespun
constituents</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-What
is this? What is she talking about? Almost sounds derogatory towards
the people whom a Congressperson is representing. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dixon
was getting pressure to toe the party line. She wanted to make sure
her District was behind her. Kit was appointed lead to talk to the
Speaker’s office. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Two</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Day
one of the shutdown. Kit gets to the office early after a long night
at the office.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Four</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Congressperson
Dixon would listen to the Speaker's proposal, but say she will
consider it-that is Kit’s plan. In the meantime, Clarence, Kit and
Doug’s dog was being entered in a dog popularity contest. While
Dixon met with the Speaker, Kit was meeting with Drysdale. Drysdale
was putting the vote in a political perspective rather than a how is
this responsible way to spend. Drysdale was unsatisfied with Kit’s
answer. He confronts Dixon. Is not happy with Dixon either. He
confronts her and there is even a physical element to it. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Members
of the majority party in the House of Representatives took turns
serving as the presiding officer of floor debate. Freshmen spent more
time “in the chair” than senior legislators.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Dixon was tapped to serve here while the Speaker was away.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Five</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kit
is told that Dixon is in trouble. Meet her in the Capitol Rotunda.
When Kit finds her there, 30 minutes after getting the message.
Detective O’Halloran is there with Dixon. Drysdale is there, dead.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Six</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dixon
is the leading suspect: motive-the fight yesterday, opportunity, and
weapon-the Speaker’s gavel. Kit talks to O’Hallaron. Dan, her
boss, and Dixon’s chief of staff, assigns Kit the task of solving
the murder.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Seven</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two
possible suspects: Judy Talent-Drysdale chief rival-and Gareth
Pressler-Sergeant of Arms, whom Drysdale turned down the request for
security reforms. Meg adds Jordan Macintyre to the list of suspects</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reason
why Dixon was at the Rotunda that morning was that Dan had gotten a
message saying it was from Jack to meet him at the Rotunda. It was a
set up. The call was made from the Capitol Visitor Center. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Eight</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
question Shogan asks is why would this call be placed to Dan from the
Visitor Center? Why not Kit? And who placed the call? My question
is, why didn’t Dan come forward to Dective O’Halloran and show him
the phone? And why didn’t the police look at the tapes to see who
was in the Visitor Center then? Seems rather weak to me. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kit
talks to Melinda. They met in a Cafeteria for a snack and
information. Shogan’s comment is that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
It takes forever to make a difference around here.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Congress]
… </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>congressional
achievements were measured not in days, months, or even years, but
decades.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Interesting divergent thoughts from Shogan. Do not be too fixated on
the right now, but look at the general trend. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Melinda
says the press thinks that the guy behind the Hill Rat blog is behind
the murder. Drysdale had threatened to expose the anonymous blogger.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Nine</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kit
mentions setting up a meeting at </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
The Pizza</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
which</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Spike Mendelsohn</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
runs. When we were in DC, we ate at Good Stuff Eatery in Georgetown.
This is one of Mendlesohn’s restaurants. Also we have his cookbook.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
has a chance meeting with Trevor, her former officemate from the
first book. Kit tells Trevor that Dixon might be a suspect and had
found the body. Trevor has contacts which will help Kit investigate. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Ten</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
researches the Speaker’s gavel in the Library of Congress and
discovers that at any one time there may be more than one gavel-a set
of spares in case one breaks.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Eleven</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lunch
with Judy Talent. Kept herself well. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
I could guess, I’d wager that Judy’s intensity pervaded her whole
existence—her work, appearance, and personal relationships.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She questions Judy about Drysdale. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twelve</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kit
meets with Trent Roscoe, ostentatiously about House security. But Kit
is trying to figure out a way to find if Trent’s boss is involved
with Drysdales murder.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Fifteen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clarence,
Kit and Doug’s dog had a popularity contest which raised money for
a dog shelter. They are at a celebration for it. Kit talks to Jordan
MacIntyre. Kit questions him. Jordan figures out that she works with
the prime suspect of the killer of his husband. Jordan looks
threatening. Clarence lunges for him and then goes after the pizza.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Sixteen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clarence’s
Top Dog award was rescinded because of the chaos he caused. The
three go out for an after meeting at a bistro. Jordan is a suspect
because of the money he will be inheriting, enabling him to open his
own restaurant. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doug
talks about </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Occam’s
razor</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
He says this points to Dixon doing it. He thinks that is the simplest
solution. How to come up with something else to say Dixon did not do
it? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Come up with an explanation with fewer assumptions than the scenario
I offered. Once you’re able to come up with that version of events,
you’ve got your killer.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Eighteen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Contains
the book title. Hill Rat broke the story on how Drysdale was killed.
Trent will ask Kit for a date.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty One</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kit
is going on a date with Trent. She visits the shop where the gavels
are made. She is the second person asking about gavels that day. The
first was from the Sergeant at Arms office and not Garreth.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
blew out a long breath. Lying had never been my strong suit, but
lately, the deceptions rolled off my tongue smooth as butter.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I think this is true. The more you do something, the easier it
becomes. Whether it is lying or sinning and building.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty Two</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kit
goes to Trent’s office. She sets up a fake call </span></span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fungame.fakecall.prankfriend&hl=en_US&gl=US"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>(Fake
A Call</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">).
She uses a call, which turns out to be real to look in Gareth’s
office. Everything seems OK.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty Three</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kit
thinks it is Gareth who killed Drysdale. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
</u></span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty Four</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
spare gavel is missing from the rostrum on the Speakers dias.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty Five</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dan
quit as chief of staff. Kit is on her way to her office to meet with
O’Halloran. She gets accosted in a deserted hallway by the murderer
and is abducted into a deserted cafeteria where she is bound and
gagged. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty Six</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
part seems really lame. The murderer leaves her alone. She manages to
free herself. Then chases after the murderer with the idea of drawing
attention to him. Clarence stops the murderer.</span></span></p>
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</p>
<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Essentially
if you read Shogan’s first mystery, </span></span><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/stabbing-in-senate-washington-whodunit-1.html#Evaluation"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Stabbing
in the Senate</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
this is a repeat. It has a slightly different setting-the House of
Representatives vs the Senate, and how the murder takes place. But
the same main characters are part of the story.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
was interested in seeing if Shogan’s writing improved with practice
or was her first book representative of her writing. She relies on
much the same style and techniques-naming characters from the
pantheon of recognized detectives. The relationships between
characters seemed either forced or stilted. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For
a quick summer read, this is an OK read. For something which will
stimulate your gray cells, read some other mystery. (One redeeming
part of the book is that she names several places to eat. If you are
going to DC, this might be a decent guide to those kinds of
establishments.)</span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<br />
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Homicide
in the House</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as a mystery?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is the culture described in this book different than where we live?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
economic or political situations are described?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author examine economics and politics, family traditions, the
arts, religious beliefs, language or food?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/fiction-discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Groups General Fiction Guide</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<br />
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</p>
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: The digital clock blinked an irritating red, glaring “11:59”
in block numerals.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: Quite appropriately, the nighttime illumination of the Capitol
caused my newly adorned ring finger to sparkle.</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://camelpress.com/2016/06/15/homicide-in-the-house-by-colleen-j-shogan-a-killer-profits-from-a-capitol-hill-shutdown/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Joy_Shogan"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Homicide-Washington-Whodunit-Colleen-Shogan/dp/1603813330"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Colleen-J.-Shogan/author/B001JRUOGS?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/homicide-in-the-house-colleen-j-shogan/1123198348"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28542913-homicide-in-the-house"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1269678.Colleen_J_Shogan"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/politics/biden-archivist-nominee-writes-murder-mysteries"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Washington
Examiner Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://bookschatter.blogspot.com/2016/06/Q-Ahomicide-house.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Books
Chatter</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/colleen-j-shogan/homicide-in-the-house.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Fantastic
Fiction</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://rollcall.com/2016/08/11/homicide-in-the-house-features-a-spooky-shutdown-driven-capitol-hill/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Roll
Call</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/stabbing-in-senate-washington-whodunit-1.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/stabbing-in-senate-washington-whodunit-1.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/stabbing-in-senate-washington-whodunit-1.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/stabbing-in-senate-washington-whodunit-1.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/stabbing-in-senate-washington-whodunit-1.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> : <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/07/stabbing-in-senate-washington-whodunit-1.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d930c3af-7fff-ae18-eeeb-5d6728554d2d" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Colleen J. Shogan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: ePub on Libby from the Los Angeles Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Camel Press</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9781603813310 (ISBN10: 1603813314)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: July 5, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: July 8, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">236 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Fiction, Mystery</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Tells a good story: 3 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Character development: 3 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kit
comes in a little early to deliver a paper to Senator Lansford. She
finds him stabbed with a model helicopter. She is a suspect and works
on clearing her name with an office mate, Meg. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Story
goes through how they figure out the suspects and eliminate them. The
story ends with Kit being attacked by the murderer in the subway
running under the Capitol building and the murderer being arrested. </span></span>
</p>
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<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kit
Marshall -Staffer of Senator Langsford’s office. Main person who
solves the crime</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Senator
Lyndon Langsford-The murdered Senator</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vivian
Langsford-The Senator’s wife who had the money in the family</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Meg
Peters-Office mate of Kit. Helps to solve the murder. Very attractive
woman</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doug-Partner
of Kit, Georgetown professor of history, author</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Senator
Regan-friend of Langsford but also on opposite sides of an important
bill</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Representative
Jordan Jessup-conservative representative from the same state as
Langsford. Will be appointed Senator after Langsford’s death.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jeff
Prentice-lobbyist for Carter Powell</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vivian
Langsford-Senator Langsford’s wife, wealthy</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Matt
Rocker-policy person for the Senator’s office</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trevor-another
office staffer who is a bit aloof, without social skills</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kara-scheduler
for the Senator</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lucinda
Porter-chief of staff</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mandy
Lippman-Senator Langsford spokesperson</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">O'Halloran-Capitol
Police detective in charge of the murder case</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kyle
Tarnoff-Representative Jessops chief of staff</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Henrik-Vivian
Langsford’s trainer and lover</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carter
Powell-Not a person, but a defense contractor who is up for a
contract with the Federal government.</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
NPR</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
July 5, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book: July 5, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: We visited the National Archives this
Spring. Recently the author was selected as the head of the National
Archives. I am wondering how good of an author she is.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it? A good summer read.</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
I said above, I was not looking for the great American murder
mystery. Nor did I get it. This was an enjoyable read for me as I was
struggling through another couple of books. I just wanted to have
something to enjoy for a little while.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some
of my thoughts are that there were a lot of cliche moments here. Such
as when Kit finds the recycle bin slightly askew. She finds a paper
she had just put into the Senator’s desk when she discovered that
the Senator had been murdered. (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>pulled
the paper and was surprised to see my memo, the one I had carried
into Langsford’s office earlier today) </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or
the mysterious voice on the phone. Or in the last part of the book, a
fight. And then there is the protagonist to the story is able to
solve the “who killed the Senator” in ways the professional
police cannot.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then there is the unbelievable. When Kit tells her accomplice that
she knows who the murderer is. But the murderer is close enough to
her that the murderer hears her. Or a chief of staff would be
blabbing what her boss says is to be quiet about to everybody who she
knows it seems like.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then there is the naming of the mystery novel gods. From Agatha
Christie to Dorothy Sayers-I will admit my heart skipped a beat when
Lord Peter Whimsey (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Follow
up on some leads’? Do I need to remind you that you’re a Senate
staffer, not Lord Peter)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
was named. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author can be repetitive in the telling of her story and not in a
subtle way. She has a tendency to tell rather than show at times. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
there are other references which either political junkies or local
people would remember. Such as Gary Condit and Chandra Levy-they were
local Central Valley people: Condit was accused of killing Levy, but
it took several years to unravel that it was somebody else who did.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So
much of the book is cheesy.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author reviews motives: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>First,
you have a power motive. Carter Power, to be exact. If Langsford
backed the company, several people would stand to benefit, not just
financially but by proving their influence and their ability to get
things done. Second, there’s the political motive. Several people
would move up in the world, one to the Senate. Third, you have a
personal or financial motive, such as the insurance money</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
couple interesting comments she makes:</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It’s
almost impossible for outsiders to understand the inner workings of a
political circle.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Isn’t that true of almost all specialty occupations? Or at least
those within the occupations think so?</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Living
in the Washington, D.C., region has a lot of positives, yet amazing
cuisine isn’t one of them.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I am not a great connoisseur of high class food. We were just in DC
this Spring. While we visited places to eat which were enjoyable,
none really stood out as being exception or something we could only
get in that region.</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://gary-summer.blogspot.com/1970/01/places-ma-freedom-trail.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Freedom
Trail</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
in Boston.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Since the Senator is from Boston, this stands to reason that he would
bring friends to walk this trail in Boston. It would have been a bit
startling to see that he took a friend along the </span></span><a href="https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/black-heritage-trail-tour.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Black
Freedom Trail</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Several
references which this Spring I became acquainted with on a visit to
DC. Such as Union Station, the Metro and a few other places.</span></span></li></ul>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
thing Shogan says which is a bit of an eye opener is how staffers
become lobbyists and lobbyists become staffers very quickly.</span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
was looking for a quick, easy summer time read when I came across an
article that the Nation Archivist was a mystery writer. So I checked
out her first mystery book from the library. It did not disappoint in
being a quick read. It fit what I wanted perfectly.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Having
said that, just be aware, this is her first book and it shows the
lack of experience in writing this type of a story. Many of the clue
are given repeatedly and in obvious ways. The writing style, while
not bad, does not rise to any of the really good writers.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Still
it served what I wanted and I will probably read her second book just
to see if she improves or not.</span></span></p>
</div><br /><div>
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<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: Ascending from the underground depths of the Metro, I
confronted the alabaster dome in the distance.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: Me, too!</span></span></p>
<b id="TableContents"></b><br />
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<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stabbing-Senate-Washington-Whodunit-Colleen/dp/1603813314"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Colleen-J.-Shogan/author/B001JRUOGS?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stabbing-in-the-senate-colleen-j-shogan/1122137507"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25775813-stabbing-in-the-senate?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=l3o2OlTZkg&rank=5"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1269678.Colleen_J_Shogan"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NPR
Review - articles on Shogan From </span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/04/1184822908/colleen-shogan-archivist-archives"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>July
4th</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and </span></span><a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/07/05/colleen-shogan-archivist"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>5th,
2023</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/colleen-j-shogan/stabbing-in-the-senate.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Fantastic
Fiction</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.littsburgh.com/stabbing-in-the-senate-by-colleen-j-shogan/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Littsburg</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Gives
the first chapter</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://thehillishome.com/2015/12/book-review-colleen-shogans-stabbing-in-the-senate/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Hill is Home</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/bookreview/stabbing-in-the-senate-a-washington-whodunit"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Washington
Independent Review of Books</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-37984022128732713652023-06-17T06:49:00.090-07:002023-06-26T16:00:09.769-07:00The Way Is Made By Walking<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6TyDO6a2oR5Vp-W6UMrexVE2P3XhHPPRCbVTi5qljFqWht6w0jyli46KXTuSxlNuOIc8fPVy4WzXkRUwePAt0SA-BZxT9HVk_uoXZ7wrA9gkoxPwK01hBiw_Z7Nr_ccD7UWoAYX2H20batia4YAaK8m5tn5VXNQbWbaN-MT52cUm-xTvv5Eac1gd4Sj0/s400/1659368.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="267" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6TyDO6a2oR5Vp-W6UMrexVE2P3XhHPPRCbVTi5qljFqWht6w0jyli46KXTuSxlNuOIc8fPVy4WzXkRUwePAt0SA-BZxT9HVk_uoXZ7wrA9gkoxPwK01hBiw_Z7Nr_ccD7UWoAYX2H20batia4YAaK8m5tn5VXNQbWbaN-MT52cUm-xTvv5Eac1gd4Sj0/s320/1659368.jpg" width="214" /></a><b>Book: The Way Is Made By Walking</b></p><div>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-way-is-made-by-walking.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-way-is-made-by-walking.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-way-is-made-by-walking.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-way-is-made-by-walking.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-way-is-made-by-walking.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-way-is-made-by-walking.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-way-is-made-by-walking.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-way-is-made-by-walking.html#BookReferences">Book References</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-way-is-made-by-walking.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-way-is-made-by-walking.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-way-is-made-by-walking.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-511e68fa-7fff-b42b-33ce-7fd3686c1e0e" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Arthur Paul Boers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Libby from San Francisco Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: IVP</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9780830835072 (ISBN10: 0830835075)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: June 2, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: June 17, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">219 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Christianity, Camino</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 4 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religion: Christianity</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religious Quality: 3 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Christianity-Teaching Quality: 3 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author walked the Camino de Santigo in the mid-2000’s. This book is
organized into chapters in line with his reflections or meditations rather than the
chronology of the walk. He talks about why people walk the Camino,
how it helped focus him on what is important in his life, virtues of
simplicity, self-examination, community and solitude, life after
pilgrimage and the place of walking in our modern life.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
Mars Hill Audio</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
June 2, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book: Jan 9, 2019</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: Boers was interviewed during a Mars Hill
Friday Feature. During the interview it was said that Boers had also
walked the Camino. In the interview Boers talks about why people
walked the Camino, ranging from a believer to non-believer, from
those who are seekers to those who look at it as something to do.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it? I am interested in walking the
Camino one day. I would hold Boers gives some insight about why one
should walk it.</span></span></li></ul><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b></span></span></p><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
Note: I make several references to Camino-that is the Camino de Santigo. Also I use the initials JMT-the John Muir Trail, which is a 211 miles trail through the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Foreword
by Eugene Peterson</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is nothing more pedestrian (literally!) than walking on a way, a
road, a path.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Good one Peterson!</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pilgrimage
is the ancient practice of walking, usually with others, to a holy
site while paying prayerful attention to everything that takes place
within and without, soul and body, all the ways that are inherent in
the Way, along with the companions who are also on the Way.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is something to think about right from the get-go. I have wanted
to walk the Camino. And yet, as I have read this book, the more I ask
myself why? Not from walking. That seems interesting. But what is my
motivation? Is it like walking the JMT? Another trail to mark off as
saying I did it? Or do I want to walk it to explore my inner being?
As a way to get close to God?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Walking
the Camino de Santiago was the most intense experience of solitude in
my life, but I did not do it alone.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is significant as I think of doing this walk as either alone or
with a small group of people who are family. But Boers points out
there is a whole wider range of people who assisted him in not only
writing this book, but also in planning his trip. As a Christian, it
is never just you and me God. Rather it is God, our fellowship,
family, friends, and me who make anything in my life possible.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Map
of Camino</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Introduction</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
good way to start the book: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
once walked five hundred miles to attend church.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It took him 31 days to walk the Camino. He goes through a brief
background on the Camino. Also why he wanted to walk this path.
Previously he had gone to European places of prayer to study them-he
is a professor at a Mennonite college. There he discovered
pilgrimages. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
not just step out of the house and begin? Well, for one thing, not
every walk is a pilgrimage.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I think that is an important concept. Even walking the Camino may be
just a form of exercise without a spiritual component. This may be
the most important part of the book for me personally. Why do I want
to walk the Camino? Would the El Camino Real be just as good as the
Camino de Santigo?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
is it that people of our day, with the longest lifespans in history
and a glut of “labor-saving” devices, find it astonishing to
think of committing serious time to a spiritual endeavor?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
notes that many of his fellow travelers did not consider themselves
Christian. That is not to demean those who walked it, but more to
disperse the notion that it is by its nature a spiritual walk. To
Boers, he walked it because he felt called to walk it by God.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boers
kept a journal-not from a walker’s perspective, but as a pilgrim.
It gave him time to reflect on passages which seemed well known.
Stefano: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Camino works in me…step by step.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The Camino was a process for Boers. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Change
the accent and process is a verb with spiritual connotations. In
religious ceremonies, celebrants and participants move in a
common direction as part of their worship, mini pilgrimages.</i></span></span></p>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>all
the way to heaven is heaven”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
attributed to Catherine of Siena. Boers, and others follow this up
with </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>because
he</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
[Jesus] </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
said, I am the Way</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
[Camino].</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Antonio
Machado: “ se hace camino al andar ” or “the way is made by
walking.” These well-known words have taken on a life of their
own,...</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>1.
I want to Be in That Number: Drawn to Pilgrimage</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
two weeks on the Camino, the author goes to emergency with infected
blisters. He is verging on depression with what he is missing. Still
no place where he would rather be. This all happens to many walkers
on the Camino. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boers
uses the time walking as a time of prayer for others on the Camino as
well as a time of meditation. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about who James was. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Saints
are to be signs of Jesus; they point us toward Christ. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Not worshiping but for us to understand what it means to live like
Jesus.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
like to think that walking makes any place holy. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I do not think this is true as I do not think walking my neighborhood
makes this place holy, except in the sense that all of God’s
creation is holy, we just do not recognize it as such. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boers
points out that travel used to have the connotation of work. It was
only 200 years ago when that word started to be used in the context
of pleasure and rest. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Scott
Russell Sanders says we “stripped the holiness from travel with our
commuting, our tourism, our idle shuttling about.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
So the Camino is hard work, sometimes painful. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His
outlook changed as people came around him. Still in pain, but able to
have the comfort of others. And then eating together tends to mend
us. This is why there was no place he would rather be.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>2.
Seeking God's Homeland: Christian Roots of Pilgrimage</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks a lot about </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Way</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and how this is Biblical. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His
wife walked the first ten days-left due to work. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
tried to rein in my feelings of loss.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
One of those things which I enjoy hiking by myself. But I feel the
loss of companionship when Sherri is not there. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
I am reading this book, I am caught with the thought that it matters
not how fast or long you walk, but it is the spirit you are walking
it in. I wonder if it is a detriment to have a goal when you are
walking a pilgrimage, but you make the journey the reason for the
walk. My thoughts, not his. It might be his thoughts as well as I
found this from the chapter-</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>An
irony—indeed a danger—of pilgrimage is that we try to settle in a
final destination, considering only that particular place holy and
forgetting the call to be faithfully on the move for God.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Or later on he quotes </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Origen
“Travelers on the road to God’s wisdom find that the further they
go, the more the road opens out, until it stretches to infinity.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Journeying,
wandering, exile and pilgrimage themes are found throughout
Scriptures.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Several examples including Adam and Eve, David, Moses, Jacob, Abraham
,... Boers points out the various places in the New Testament about
the way (odos) being used. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
Acts Jesus' followers were first known as “the Way” even before
being called “Christian”.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
sometimes forget the association between church and walking.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He notes that we have lost the connection of walking and
spirituality. Many people, probably most, when they go to church,
they walk. Sometimes this is many hours to get there. At times, I
think it is too much of a hassle to drive there. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Augustine
famously prayed, “You made us for yourself and our hearts find no
peace until they rest in you.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>3.
Lord, Teach Us to Be Prayerful: Spirituality Lessons</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you maintain practices while on your pilgrimage? You would think
this would be simple. But at least when I hike, there is constant
movement from the time you get up till the time you go to bed. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
asks Paul how he does it. He sings memorized Psalms, prays the Lord’s
prayer, and observes quietness while walking. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Yet
questions remained. Would the demands of a pilgrimage affect what I
could do? Would there be enough privacy and solitude in hostels for
prayer in the early morning or late day? Would companions influence
my practices? More importantly, would I be deepened in Christian life
and faithfulness? Would I be taught by God along this way?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During
times of quiet and solitude, he would pray, ponder Scripture and read
from a volume of Teresa of Avila. His prayer was for friends and
family. Church bells would remind him of why he was there.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Regardless
of the source, these peals were also a call and reminder to pray.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Do they do that to me? Or do I just enjoy them? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
would converse with God. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Each
day, I examined a period in my life and talked it over with God.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Sounds like good practice. He also used </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Anne
Lamott’s two basic prayers, either “Thank you! Thank you! Thank
you!” or “Help me! Help me! Help me!”.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Church
Father Clement of Alexandria famously described prayer as “keeping
company with God.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
admired the trail left for pilgrims to follow-the yellow arrows and
the scallop shells. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
wonder what it would be like to have God’s will neatly laid out for
discernment with vivid flechas. Why the constant work of prayer,
journaling, Scripture reading, pondering, consulting with fellow
believers? And then often we still are not sure that we have it
right!</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
You read in places where pilgrims will not find them or there are
confusing signs. There I think you need to understand your
destination and follow the map-both literally and spiritually. Boers
would be on the look out for these blazes (flechas). He would get
tense until he found one, wondering did he lose the way?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>See
God at work in all things. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This included going to ER for his blisters. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coincidences
abound on the Camino. What did God want him to learn? What does God
want me to learn as I walk through life?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>4.
Your Pack's Too Big: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While
there is the temptation to make the pilgrimage only a spiritual
journey, the Camino will remind you that there is a physical
component to this journey as well. In this case, Boers is confronted
by a French volunteer who lets him know his pack is too heavy. As he
goes along, he does things like cut up books and discards what he has
read-something which is against his grain. He comes in with a pack of
30 pounds-which to me is a good weekend pack with food and water.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks about how the early disciples and pilgrims took Jesus’
injunction seriously-take nothing on your journey. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
brings this to our daily lives. How much stuff do we need? What is
extra baggage in life? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>So
for months one of Mary’s spiritual disciplines was to give up and
give away an item a day from her own household! </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Her
mother had died recently and she was needing to go through her stuff.
This convinced her that she had too much stuff as well.]</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
quotes Mark 10:23, but thinks in the light of the friendly French
volunteer who wanted to make sure Boers finished the Camino rather
than give up from the weight of his backpack. Was this what Jesus was
doing with the rich young ruler?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
notes the temptation of picking up souvenirs. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
tourism, consuming may replace actual experience.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Belongings,
then, always weigh on me at some level, even when I do not carry them
on my back.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
more stuff we own, the more effort and energy it takes to keep,
maintain, insure and protect it.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
you walk on The Way, you will stick your foot in poop.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Aldo
Leopold famously lamented, “One of the penalties of an ecological
education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Our culture tends to insulate us from the issues of our living. Every
action we make, such as driving a car, is a theological decision and
statement. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Being
a pilgrim means changing one’s lifestyle.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>5.
The Road That Leads to Life: Challenges of Faithful Pilgrimage</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Every
day is still a struggle and each one requires a recommitment,”
Paul told me</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-both
on the Camino and in life. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
was continually frustrated at my inability to live up to my own
ideals. Why did the Christian journey have to be an ongoing battle,
I wondered.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Boers remembers that Jesus said to take up your cross DAILY. This
would be an ongoing struggle. Or as Law noted, each morning is a
resurrection. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
was a certain freedom in not knowing everything that was ahead.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Book
title comes from a Spanish saying: “</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>hace
camino al andar” or “the way is made by walking”.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walking
and the wilderness may not be as comforting as it sounds. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Jesus
and later the desert fathers and mothers show that wilderness is not
just a place of beauty and solace but also of testing and temptation.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>6.
The Journey Is Long: Camino Confessions</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
pilgrimage gives a person a chance to review and evaluate themselves.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>while
I never competed with others on the Camino, one person did pressure
me unmercifully. This one I could not avoid and found hard to resist.
I was my own greatest problem.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Hard to escape yourself.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
Boers case, he seems to overdo things in his desire to achieve. There
is a temptation to compare and want to be like someone else, or
better. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Addictions
counselors advise paying special attention to being HALT: hungry,
angry, lonely or tired.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the pilgrims said that the Camino got harder as you went along. He
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>insisted
that it grew more psychologically difficult as a person neared his or
her goal. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
With my JMT hike that was true. First week was getting the body into
top shape. After that it was all psychological.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
lesson Boers learnt was to be prayerful. He</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
learned to pay better attention to God—God’s company, God’s
workings and God’s interventions.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>7.
Well That's the Camino: Hospitality and Solidarity</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
the end of a long walk day, feeling exhausted, he went to a Bed and
Breakfast. He was able to get refreshed with a fresh vegetarian
dinner and clean surroundings. A good night's sleep. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
found that there was a wide range of establishments and hosts. While
very busy with their official duties, they did respond to
friendliness. He goes through a few of the more notable
characteristics of some of the refugios. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Over
and again, meals inspired and drew us together in surprising ways.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Seems like a plain meal would rouse the pilgrims spirits and create
community. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Truly,
we met God in each other and while sharing food.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
A friend told Boers once that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
you can read the Gospels without getting hungry, you’re not paying
attention.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Another author, Christine Pohll says that: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
shared meal is the activity most closely tied to the reality of God’s
Kingdom.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boers
notes that many times there were people who did not share a common
language. They conversed as much as they could. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
was lots of smiling and laughter. That can be a good substitute when
vocabulary is insufficient.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talking
helps people connect, knowing they are not alone in a struggle. One
resolution Boers made was that as bad as he is with small talk, he
resolved to do better and do it more often-just to establish that
connection.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is a sense among pilgrims that the Camino will provide.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
While not a deity, it does seem to have a blessing to it that God
gives. Maybe it is by awaking hearts to sharing His goodness.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>8.
No "Ustedes" Por Favor: The Rules Are Different Here</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where
are the boundaries on the Camino? That is what is discussed here. How
open can you be? How much do you share? The rules seem to be
different here where you would share deeply personal items with
people whom you might never meet again. Sounds like another thing to
get used to is that relationships will be transient. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks about the former use of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>you</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
in different languages vs the more informal. English does not have
that differentiation, but other languages do. On the Camino,
everybody is equal, consequently, informal. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Being
an ignorant traveler has its perks.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>On
the Camino it was important to move at one’s own pace.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is something he talks about earlier. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
all wanted and hoped for each person to succeed.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
once heard social philosopher Albert Borgmann remark that a way to
recognize a particularly worthwhile moment is to be able to affirm:
“There is no one I’d rather be with.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is true. There are times where we have developed that special
relationship or that special moment.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
not encourage every believer we meet with a blessing? Is it so hard
to find a simple phrase to inspire others on the path, in their
following of Jesus the Way, the true Camino?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What would be a good blessing? Have a good day is so trite.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Philo
of Alexandria, an ancient Jewish philosopher, is reputed to have
said, “Be compassionate, for everyone you meet is fighting a great
battle.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>9.
Secular Seekers: The Disconnect of Pilgrims and Church</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of the walkers were not religious, at least at the start. They seemed
to be wanting to do the Camino like people want to do the JMT. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>On
the Camino, religious means Christian purposes of prayer or
repentance, while spiritual indicates something more than secular
goals but not necessarily Christian ones.)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It is a mixed lot on who walks the Camino and why.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
people did not engage. But Boers had many conversations about
religious matters, particularly after people found out what he did
for a living. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>As
a professor—and formerly a preacher—I spend much time proclaiming
the right way to think or theologize, but here I was called into a
different, more attentive mode.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
People are complex. Boers not only walked a mile in their shoes, but
500 of them. So he gained a bit of understanding. Maybe that is what
we need in our culture, a bit more walking together.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
journelers. Seemed like most people wanted something more than what
our culture was giving them. He found that the best way to talk about
Christianity was to talk about following Jesus rather than church
matters or theology or politics. Boers feels this is a missed
opportunity by Christians-to minister to those on The Way.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>spiritual
not religious.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seems
strange that as church attendance is diminishing, the popularity of
the Camino is increasing. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Originally,
most Christian pilgrimage sites and routes were popularly initiated.
They were not begun by church leaders or hierarchies.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
A while later in the book Boers interviewed Ray Simpson, an Anglican
priest, who </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
sadly concluded that church “worship has generally lost its street
credibility.</i></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.taize.fr/en"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Taizé</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Boers
spent time here a couple of years before walking the Camino. He was
influenced by what he experienced here. See the third Appendix. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
an era when North Americans work longer hours than four decades ago
and perpetually complain of being busy, can we provide space for
sabbath and rest, renewal and reorientation?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Good question. Instead </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
we raise the threshold against inquirers if we only permit or expect
them to show up on Sunday mornings for formal services.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Most of the time, church doors are locked, except at times when there
are services.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author notes that Augustine said that our hearts are restless. It is
understandable that our feet are as well.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>10.
Focal Ways of Life: Putting Pilgrimage into Practice</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
this chapter Boers talks about where our lives are focused. I think
this comes from a philosopher named Albert Borgemann-I only really
heard of him recently through Mars Hill Audio when they interviewed
him. Boers also is a disciple of him as well.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boers
starts off with how mobile we are-we are always moving towards
someplace. All movement is not pilgrimage as not all places are
considered hallowed even if we honor those places or the people the
places it honors. Boers confesses that at times when things get
tough, he thinks about leaving. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Henri
Nouwen encouraged me to stay instead and, in his words, “go
deeper.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
talks about something Siguard Olsen said. Boers commentary is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
place the church can engage the spiritual longing in our culture is
to name the shallowness of how many of us live and to offer and model
more grace-filled approaches.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I wonder how Boers thinks this can be done? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Focal
living helps us identify and perceive Olson’s “something more,”
a quality of life that we miss and long to find.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boers
defines F</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>ocal
concerns are </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[as]
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>objects,
activities or practices with several qualities.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Then he lists attributes of them:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>First
they have a “commanding presence.” They take energy or effort;
they make demands on us. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some
examples he gives are hiking and cooking.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Second,
focal things and practices have deep and evident connections with the
wider world, including people and our ecosystem.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Example can be playing an instrument connected with a composer and
the listener, while a counterexample is heating up food in a
microwave is done with isolation or interaction with others.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Third,
focal realities have “centering” or orienting power. They help us
experience and be in touch with something “as greater than myself
and of ultimate significance.” </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
gives an example that a cathedral or a wilderness has a tendency to
grab you and keep your focus and make that a focal point of your
attention..</span></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
reason the Camino is so attractive is that it points to different
ways and possibilities for living.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Borgmans
has for focal affirmations.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.01in; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0.01in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> “</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
were you last able to affirm them?”</i></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.01in; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0.01in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is no place I would rather be.</i></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.01in; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0.01in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is nothing I would rather do.</i></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.01in; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0.01in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is no one I would rather be with.</i></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.01in; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0.01in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
I will remember well</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That
should be at the forefront of my thought. Not what I am going to do
next.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
There
is a sense of comradery, even if a person is hiking alone. There is a
shared sense of doing something unusual together. Boers experienced
only minor aggravations from fellow walkers, not any large scale
disagreements. That may be due to the nature of this walk. If there
is someone disagreeable to you, you can discreetly drift away-walk at
a different pace.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
he points out that there is a shared goal without competition. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
you did in real life is a common starting question. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Careers
can be places where we feel conflicted and torn. … We engaged
questions about how we choose to live, where we expend time and
energy, and how we employ gifts.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Not only was there talking about occupations, but how they felt about
their occupation. Some decided after the Camino to change
occupations. To Boers, the Camino is a reminder that an occupation
is a means to an end-to live and provide. Not the end of a matter. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>11.
Walking in Faith: Walking as Spiritual Practice</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like
hikers on the JMT, Camino walkers discuss body issues which would
almost never ever be discussed with strangers. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I’ve
said, rules were different on the Camino.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He notes that the average American only walks a few hundred yards a
day. I do not think he is right. A </span></span><a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/10000-steps/art-20317391"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>doctor
at the Mayo Clinic</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
puts it at 1.5 to 2 miles a day. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Nhat Hanh often observes: not only walking on water is a marvel, even
walking on the earth is a miracle.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Look
up feet/foot in Scripture. Boers notes that it is mentioned a lot
more often than we recognize.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even
before the Camino, Boers noted that extended times of walking helped
to reset him. His method includes:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Relax,
take deep breaths and release tensions</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Evaluate
what is causing the tension</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gain
perspective</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did life get out of balance</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clarity
on situations</span></span></li></ul>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_of_Tangier"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>St.
Marcellu</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>s</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Advocates
renewed emphasis on spiritual disciplines.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prayer
Walking. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
had fretted over my feet, and here they were—after a close
call—working well. It was all gift and grace</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>12.
Here I Walk, I Can Do No Other: Keeping Faith With Our Feet</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
age old question for backpackers-what is essential and what is a
nicety? No clear cut answers in either the book nor in real life.
His immediate question concerns a small map he was given of the
entire Camino. For hikers the overall picture is far less important
than the immediate, which way do I turn? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>alkers
need different kinds of maps than drivers or riders. The world
looks and feels different on foot than in a vehicle. Cars flatten
experience of the earth: while you can’t help noticing serious
hills, many slopes are not perceived.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I do not think Boers went far enough. When you automate something,
you no longer have to pay attention to the particulars. You are more
interested in how it is functioning, rather than why am I doing
something. Your experiences are different as well. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
saunter really does stem from Saint Terre, then by using my own two
feet I am learning to honor and cherish the holiness of place.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is a popular walking/hiking word. </span></span><a href="https://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/palmer_sauntering.aspx"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>John
Muir </u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">picked
it up from </span></span><a href="https://scalar.usc.edu/works/bodies/henry-david-thoreau-walking-abbreviated-version"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Thoreau</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
It has an aire of aimlessness. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>alking
affects not just space and distance but also time itself. In our
high-speed way of living—which we intriguingly call “driven”—we
miss many things. Christian faith calls us to a different pace of
life, and walking is a vital way to achieve that.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I wish that Boers would have expanded on this-both from why does he
think we are called to this and in what form it would take. On the
first, by not being driven, we have time to listen. Listen
particularly to God and then listen and experience that which is
around me.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Driving
is an activity that is almost always merely a means to an end. Live
time, however, is worthwhile in itself; it is enjoyable with its own
internal, intrinsic goods.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Interesting. Even in retirement, do I experience “Live Time”? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[the
Hebrews under Moses walking across the desert] </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>learned
“the word of God in the wilderness as they walked three miles an
hour” with “the three mile an hour God.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
That is a really interesting expression. This came from Kosuke
Koyama.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Walking
is an act of dissent; it is countercultural. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Is a 30 minute wasted time?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Conclusion</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about his arrival to Santiago. There was the bittersweet of meeting
people whom he had walked with so far and yet would never see again
in this life. I </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>imagine
the afterlife to be an opportunity to catch up with those I’ve lost
touch with along the way: friends and family, brothers and sisters
in the faith, casual acquaintances, and even historical saints who
inspired me from afar.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then there is the sadness of accomplishing a goal and wondering, is
that all? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Meister
Eckhart that I heard at a low point years ago: “Whatever happens to
you is the best possible thing for your salvation.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Taizé
verse:</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bless
the Lord, my soul</i></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0.02in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>And
bless God’s holy name</i></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bless
the Lord, my soul,</i></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0.02in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>who
leads me into life.</i></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then there is a fitting quote from Abbess Samanthnn to end the main
part of the book: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Since
God is near to all who call upon him, we are under no obligation to
cross the sea. The kingdom of heaven can be reached from every land</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Appendix
1. Recovering and Reclaiming Christian Pilgrimage</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
pilgrimage is a journey undertaken in the light of a story. A great
event has happened; the pilgrim hears the reports and goes in search
of evidence, aspiring to be an eyewitness. The pilgrim seeks not
only to confirm the experience of others firsthand but to be
changed by the experience.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about a Celtic tradition where they believe there are “thin places”
where God seems more accessible to humans. Not sure that is true, but
I suspect there are places where we are more accessible to God-not
that God cannot reach us anyplace, rather we let our defenses down
and it is a place where we are more receptive to listen to God
speaking to us.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
a brief history of Christian pilgrimage and resistance to it. An
unknown Irish leader warned about the fruitlessness of pilgrimage
unless you already had your house in order. “</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
go to Rome means great toil and little profit. The [heavenly] king
whom you seek can only be found there if you bring him within
yourself.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is the question I have: Tourist or Pilgrim? Boers is not opposed to
being a tourist, just do not wrap yourself in the cloak of a pilgrim
if you do. Boers sees this as a continuum rather than an either/or.
He suggests five tests to help determine what you are doing. One of
them struck me particularly: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pilgrimage
has a purpose, goal and destination of meeting and encountering God
and God’s truths.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
should first visualize our daily walk in this life as a pilgrimage.
Even going to church should be done in that spirit.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
concludes this with several elements of pilgrimage, including this
one: T</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he
pilgrim goes with a spirit of openness, hoping to encounter God and
anticipating the growth that this encounter invites. Pilgrimages are
not done casually but require time to prepare and ready oneself.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Appendix
2. Planning a Christian Pilgrimage</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pilgrimage
can grow from all kinds of motives: need for rest, realization that
something about your faith has grown dull or stale, facing a
transition, trying to process a major crisis, longing for healing or
resolution, inexplicable attraction to a particular sojourn, desire
for more intense prayer, yearning to explore and better understand
your beliefs, wanting to review your life or set a new course.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would be my motivation for doing something like the Camino? Pray,
talk through it with your small group and family. Keep a journal of
thoughts about it. Read.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once
you have gone, ponder what you have learned and felt.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
notes that it is hard to have other people interested in his
experiences. I found this with the JMT. They only wanted a couple
sentences to summarize 24 days, 221 miles. I wanted at least a page
to share, if not a chapter.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Don’t
underestimate the power of corporate support for pilgrimage.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Appendix
3. Pilgrimage Destinations</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boers
lists other sites which might work as pilgrimage sites. He says this
is not an exhaustive list. With each of the places listed below, he
gives a description based upon an author and then some reference
books.</span></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;"><br /></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperen"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>ASPEREN,
SOUTH HOLLAND, NETHERLANDS</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://britishpilgrimage.org/portfolio/pilgrims-way-to-canterbury/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>CANTERBURY
AND THE PILGRIMS’ WAY, ENGLAND</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.coventrycathedral.org.uk/reconciliation/community-of-the-cross-of-nails/pilgrimage"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>COVENTRY,
ENGLAND</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croagh_Patrick"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>CROAGH
PATRICK, COUNTY MAYO, IRELAND</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/Archaeology/Exhibitions/Glendalough-Power,-Prayer-and-Pilgrimage"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>GLENDALOUGH,
COUNTY WICKLOW, IRELAND</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://holy-island.uk/long-distance-walking-routes-pilgrimages-to-holy-island-lindisfarne/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>HOLY
ISLAND, LINDISFARNE, ENGLAND</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://iona.org.uk/interfaith-pilgrimage-on-iona/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>IONA
COMMUNITY, SCOTLAND</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>ISRAEL/PALESTINE</i></span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://julianofnorwich.org/pages/learning-at-the-shrine"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>JULIAN
CELL, NORWICH, ENGLAND</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.medjugorje.org/pilgrimages/medjugorje-pilgrimages.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>MEDJUGORJE</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>ROME</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>SYRIA</i></span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiz%C3%A9_Community"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>TAIZÉ,
FRANCE</u></i></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Appendix
4. Camino Pilgrimage Resources</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
provides a list of books about the Camino. Some are guidebooks, some
are more biographical and some are spiritual.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Notes</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Bible is an outdoor book: </i></span></span><a href="https://www.ecofaithrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BerryWendell_ChristianitySurvivalCreation.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Wendell
Berry, “Christianity and the Survival of Creation,” in Sex,
Economy, Freedom & Community </u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
(New York: Pantheon, 1992), p. 103.</i></span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arthur
Boers walked the Camino de Santigo in the mid-2000’s. This book is
a series of reflections on his adventure. It is not a travel guide
nor a series of meditations, but how the Camino affected him,
particularly places which he has felt too comfortable in our world.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boers
has been a Mennonite pastor and is currently a professor at the
Mennonite Seminary in Elkhart. He approached the Camino as a
Christian who is Dutch from an Anabapist tradition. As such, some of
the Catholicism of the Camino was a bit foreign to him, along with
the language-he was sufficiently conversational in Dutch, French and
Spanish to make himself understood. But during the Catholic services
there was a lot which over his head.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
was a good book for me to read as I have a desire to walk the Camino
myself. But there are question he asks: are you looking for this to
be walked as I would hike in the Sierra or a pilgrimage. This book is
helping to clarify my thoughts on it.</span></span></p>
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<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
did you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Were
you more or less interested in walking the Camino de Santiago after
reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
makes a long walk a pilgrimage? How are the two different?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boers
asks the question: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
is it that people of our day, with the longest lifespans in history
and a glut of “labor-saving” devices, find it astonishing to
think of committing serious time to a spiritual endeavor?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What is your answer?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Along
the Camino are markings, Flechas, which show the pilgrim where to go.
Was there a time when Boers lost these markings? What was his
reaction? How does Boers show this is how God also gives us
directions?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
Boers starts his Camino walk, a volunteer encourages him to lighten
his load. How does Boers use this experience in chapter 4? In what
ways do you carry too much stuff?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
you have done a long walk, did you find yourself being more prayerful
or touching things more spiritually? If you have not, what do you
think it would be like?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boers
talks about how the simplicity of a meal seemed to have the pilgrims
bound closer together. Why do you think that is? Has this been your
experience when you have eaten with other people where you are having
a shared experience?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Boers
said he did not do small talk well, but he resolved to do it better
and more often. Why? What benefit did he find in small talk? Do you
agree?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
someone has had a great adventure such as a pilgrimage or a long
walk, how do you listen to the person?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
felt that he was called by God to walk the Camino. How does he
describe this calling? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Way Was Made By Walking</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as a spiritual reflection?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
there anybody you would consider religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did they show it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
the book overtly religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did it affect the book's story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
central ideas does the author present?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
they personal, sociological, global, economic, spiritual?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>evidence</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
does the author use to support the book's ideas?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is
the evidence convincing...definitive or...speculative?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author depend on personal opinion, observation, and assessment?
Or is the evidence factual—based on science, statistics, historical
documents, or quotations from (credible) experts?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
implications for you, our nation or the world do these ideas have?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
these idea’s controversial? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
whom and why?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is the culture described in this book different than where we live?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
economic or political situations are described?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author examine economics and politics, family traditions, the
arts, religious beliefs, language or food?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
<br />
<b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">meseta-plateau</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">liminality-a
term used to describe the psychological process of transitioning
across boundaries and borders.</span></span></li></ul>
<div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pilgrim’s
Progress</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by John Bunyan</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pilgrim’s
Regress</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by C. S. Lewis</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Cloister Walk</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Kathleen Norris</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>???
volum</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">e
by Teresa of Ávila</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Little
Gidding</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by T. S. Eliot</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Canterbury
Tales</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Chaucer</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
DaVinci Code</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Dan Brown</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Time
by Design</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Linda Breen Pierce</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Later
Rule</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Francis of Assisi</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Way of the Lord: Christian Pilgrimage</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Tom Wright</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_Mirror"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Martyrs
Mirror</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Thieleman J. van Braght</span></span></li></ul>
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</p>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: Walking the Camino de Santiago was the most intense experience
of solitude in my life, but I did not do it alone.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: I pray the Camino bears fruit so that indeed “I will walk in
the presence of the Lord.” (Psalm 116:8)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is it that people of our day, with the longest lifespans in history
and a glut of “labor-saving” devices, find it astonishing to
think of committing serious time to a spiritual endeavor? Chp 1. I
want to Be in That Number: Drawn to Pilgrimage</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is
heaven. Catherine of Siena Attributed by<a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day">
</a></span></span><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Dorothy
Day</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>On
Pilgrimage</i></span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You
made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace until they rest in
you. Augustine, Confessions.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
tourism, consuming may replace actual experience. Chp 4. Your Pack's
Too Big: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
more stuff we own, the more effort and energy it takes to keep,
maintain, insure and protect it. Chp 4. Your Pack's Too Big:
Simplify, Simplify, Simplify</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone
in a world of wounds. Aldo Leopold, Round River, pg 165</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jesus
and later the desert fathers and mothers show that wilderness is not
just a place of beauty and solace but also of testing and temptation.
Chp 5. The Road That Leads to Life: Challenges of Faithful Pilgrimage</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Truly,
we met God in each other and while sharing food. Chp 6. The
Journey Is Long: Camino Confessions</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
shared meal is the activity most closely tied to the reality of God’s
Kingdom. Christine Pohll, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a
Christian Tradition</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being
an ignorant traveler has its perks. Chp 8. No "Ustedes" Por
Favor: The Rules Are Different Here</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
not encourage every believer we meet with a blessing? Is it so hard
to find a simple phrase to inspire others on the path, in their
following of Jesus the Way, the true Camino? Chp 8. No "Ustedes"
Por Favor: The Rules Are Different Here</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Be
compassionate, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
Attributed to Philo of Alexandria</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
place the church can engage the spiritual longing in our culture is
to name the shallowness of how many of us live and to offer and model
more grace-filled approaches. Chp 10. Focal Ways of Life: Putting
Pilgrimage into Practice</span></span></li><li>
“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
were you last able to affirm them?”</span></span></li><ul><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is no place I would rather be.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is nothing I would rather do.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is no one I would rather be with.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
I will remember well. Albert Borgman, The Moral Complexion of
Consumption</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walking
affects not just space and distance but also time itself. In our
high-speed way of living—which we intriguingly call “driven”—we
miss many things. Christian faith calls us to a different pace of
life, and walking is a vital way to achieve that. Chp 12. Here I
Walk, I Can Do No Other: Keeping Faith With Our Feet</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Whatever
happens to you is the best possible thing for your salvation. Meister
Eckhart, posted on wall in St Georgy’s Abbey, Three Rivers,
Michigan</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since
God is near to all who call upon him, we are under no obligation to
cross the sea. The kingdom of heaven can be reached from every land.
Abbess Samanthann- I could not find a direct reference, but a couple
of people quote her. Boers quotes it from a book by Edward C Sellner.</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Foreword
by Eugene Peterson</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Acknowledgments</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Map
of Camino</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Introduction</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.
I want to Be in That Number: Drawn to Pilgrimage</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2.
Seeking God's Homeland: Christian Roots of Pilgrimage</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3.
Lord, Teach Us to Be Prayerful: Spirituality Lessons</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4.
Your Pack's Too Big: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5.
The Road That Leads to Life: Challenges of Faithful Pilgrimage</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6.
The Journey Is Long: Camino Confessions</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photograph
Section</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7.
Well That's the Camino: Hospitality and Solidarity</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">8.
No "Ustedes" Por Favor: The Rules Are Different Here</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9.
Secular Seekers: The Disconnect of Pilgrims and Church</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">10.
Focal Ways of Life: Putting Pilgrimage into Practice</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">11.
Walking in Faith: Walking as Spiritual Practice</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">12.
Here I Walk, I Can Do No Other: Keeping Faith With Our Feet</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Conclusion</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Appendix
1. Recovering and Reclaiming Christian Pilgrimage</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Appendix
2. Planning a Christian Pilgrimage</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Appendix
3. Pilgrimage Destinations</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Appendix
4. Camino Pilgrimage Resources</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Notes</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
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Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
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Site</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
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<a href="https://directionjournal.org/38/1/way-is-made-by-walking-pilgrimage-along.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Direction</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-A
Mennonite Form</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2009-01/way-made-walking-pilgrimage-along-camino-de-santiago"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Christian
Century</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-21245236722081988712023-06-11T15:27:00.003-07:002024-01-17T18:26:29.119-08:00Bowie’s Bookshelf<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm14lno7VMjSNvN7eX_V27r4Jo1MuMFSlnjVqdhsq5f2uJ4RcyVkXf_fACa3RW2bEWUtABfyEhqy9gNwzqhuZClNvjNyB8-WkLa7VQ_F2W0NEIccqG3BHXl4coSM0XMxsCBcWDSd0OiFzlSqOxVjsMYg33yoWeEVJXAWZof9YQFcMyQGraXoOeZQ9Y/s420/9781982112547.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm14lno7VMjSNvN7eX_V27r4Jo1MuMFSlnjVqdhsq5f2uJ4RcyVkXf_fACa3RW2bEWUtABfyEhqy9gNwzqhuZClNvjNyB8-WkLa7VQ_F2W0NEIccqG3BHXl4coSM0XMxsCBcWDSd0OiFzlSqOxVjsMYg33yoWeEVJXAWZof9YQFcMyQGraXoOeZQ9Y/s320/9781982112547.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><p></p><div><b>Book: Bowie’s Bookshelf: The Hundred Book That Changed David Bowie’s Life</b><br />
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html#BookReferences">Book References</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/06/bowies-bookshelf.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-661f7494-7fff-7e16-b7fa-042bacd66e5c" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: John O’Connell</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: ePub on Libby from the Sacramento Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Gallery Books</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9781982112547 (ISBN10: 1982112549)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: May 6. 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: Unfinished</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">320 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Biography, Book Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: Low</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
an introduction, the author gives a brief review of 100 books which
the author felt influenced Bowie that most. Each book has a chapter.
There are a few paragraphs about the book. Then a few paragraphs
talking about how it affected Bowie. The author then concludes each
chapter with what piece reflects Bowie’s thinking about the book
and what book would be a subsequent read to the current book.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
Peter in Book Group</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
February 2023</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: Book group book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it? A better idea of who David Bowie
was.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
like the idea of tying in the books a person, particularly a
musician, has read with how it affects the person’s work. In
Bowie’s case, the more I read of the book and the books Bowie read,
the less I liked who he was. I do not think the author meant it that
way. The author seems like a true believer.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
did not finish the book. But I did read about ⅔’s of it. This was
enough to give me an idea of what the author was trying to do. I have
removed chapters in my notes where I did not find anything I felt was
worthwhile.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
</p><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;"></p><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">Turns out that Bowie is not the only rock n' roller with an affinity for books. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66121572" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Charlie Watts was a book collector</a>. It is unclear to me if it influenced his work as much as Bowie's books influenced him<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Introduction</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bowie
was a reader. When he had to swear off of cocaine for a production,
he read. When traveling, he had a traveling bookcase-I thought I read
it as a capacity of 1,500 books. How in the world did anybody lug
that thing?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bowie
realized early on that he enjoyed teaching himself much more than he
enjoyed being taught.</i></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://radicalreads.com/jorge-luis-borges-favorite-books/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Jorge
Luis Borges</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
laureate of libraries and labyrinths, to choose his hundred favorite
books and write an introduction to each. Borges only made it to
number 74.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In a lot of ways, this book is patterned after what Borges was trying
to do. Instead O’Connell is looking at Bowie’s library and
figuring out what influenced Bowie and what songs where affected by a
particular book. Interesting concept.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Like
everything else about us, our adult cultural habits are shaped by our
childhoods</i></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Tate:_An_American_Artist_1928%E2%80%931960"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Nat
Tate hoax of 1998</u></i></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Yukio
Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>if
you behave the way you want to be, you will become it: you become who
you are by practicing.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This points out the importance of having good models, ones which you
want to emulate.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Vladimir
Nabokov, Lolita (1955)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>All
my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an
audience,” he admitted in 2003 to The Word magazine. “My work is
always stronger when I get very selfish about it.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is Bowie speaking. There is a certain sense where this is
right. But a larger sense where this is wrong. Take for instance a
baby. When a baby cries and screams, no one is happy with the result.
But as the baby grows the baby understands and matures to understand
what channels are acceptable. In the same way, the artist may find
something acceptable to themselves, but needs to find a way to
communicate that to their audience.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
do not remember what this had to do with Lolita.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>James
Hall, Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art (1974)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>At
school, Steiner believed, children no longer studied the Bible or
Greek and Roman literature as closely as they once had. Consequently,
their ability to “read” art grounded in biblical or mythological
imagery was limited.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Interesting thought. How well do I understand references to classical
works?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Richard
Cork, David Bomberg (1988)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is about the painter, not the singer/guitarist from Chicago. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
there’s a moral to be drawn from Bomberg’s career, it’s that
what one generation considers heretical, the next will hail as
genius.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>John
Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writing (1968)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe
this is the one which I will use as my January book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jack
Kerouac, On the Road (1957)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[This]
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>showed
Bowie how different art forms could spring from the same source and
complement one another. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Giuseppe
Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (1958)</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Spiritually
and morally, everything in life is a compromise.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
So what happens if one does not compromise? Is it better to
compromise and work towards a goal, than to be defeated in an
uncompromising way?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Douglas
Harding, On Having No Head (1961)</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
we cannot see ourselves the way others see us, how do we know who we
are?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
A good question.</span></span></p><br />
<br />
<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
liked the idea behind this book-what an artist reads affects their
work, so let's see what they are reading. I realized through reading
most of this book, that for the most part, I did not care for David
Bowie’s philosophical outlook, at least through what these books
showed of him. But I did appreciate that he was a voracious reader
and wanted to discover new things through his readings.</span></span></p>
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<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
many of these books have you read? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
is your impression of the list? What did it tell about David Bowie?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
you think the author gave a fair sampling of Bowie’s tastes?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
is so magical about 100 top books? (Or ten or x books?) Why do lists
have these types of numbers?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
you know if your favorite artist is a reader? What the artist reads? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bowie’s
Bookshelf: The Hundred Book That Changed David Bowie’s Life</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
person has a world view. What was Bowies? How did it affect the
story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p> <br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b></li><li>
<br /></li><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">autodidacts-a
self-taught person</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ludovico
Technique- a fictional behavior modification treatment that features
prominently in the book and film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">pastiche-an
artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist,
or period.</span></span></li><li>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b></li><li>
<br /></li><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Glam!</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Barney Hoskyns</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Zanoni</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Nights
at the Circus</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Angela Carter</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Flaubert’s
Parrot</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by </span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1462.Julian_Barnes?from_search=true&from_srp=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Julian
Barnes</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mr.
Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Lawrence Weschler</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>On
the Road</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Jack Kerouac</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Days
In The Life: Voices from the English Underground 1961–1971</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Jonathon Green</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Outsider</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Camus</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Waste Land</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by T. S. Eliot’s</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
Clockwork Orange</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Anthony Burgess</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Middlemarch</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by George Eliot</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lost
Horizon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by James Hilton</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Morning
of the Magicians </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
by Louis Pauwels</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Golden Dawn </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
Israel Regardie</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Spear of Destiny</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Trevor Ravenscroft</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Psychic
Self-Defens</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">e
by Dion Fortune</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Metamorphosis</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Kafka</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Long Firm</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Jake Arnott</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Inferno</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Dante Alighieri</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Junot Díaz</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hall’s
Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by James Hall</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Silence:
Lectures and Writing</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by John Cage</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Yevgeny Zamyatin</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Nineteen
Eighty-Four </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
George Orwell</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Fire Next Time by James Baldwin</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>As
I Lay Dying</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by William Faulkner</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Dharma Bums</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Jack Kerouac</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Age of American Unreason</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Susan Jacoby</span></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: In July 1975, stick-thin and in the grip of a severe cocaine
addiction, David Bowie arrived in New Mexico to shoot The Man Who
Fell to Earth.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like
everything else about us, our adult cultural habits are shaped by our
childhoods. Chp Introduction</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
we cannot see ourselves the way others see us, how do we know who we
are? Chp On Having No Head </span></span>
</li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Introduction</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anthony
Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Albert
Camus, The Outsider (1942)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nik
Cohn, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom (1969)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dante
Alighieri, 'Inferno' (c.1308-20)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Junot
Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yukio
Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Frank
O'Hara, Selected Poems (2009)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Christopher
Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vladimir
Nabokov, Lolita (1955)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martin
Amis, Money (1984)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Colin
Wilson, The Outsider (1956)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gustave
Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Homer,
The Iliad</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">James
Hall, Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art (1974)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saul
Bellow, Herzog (1964)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">T.
S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Greil
Marcus, Mystery Train (1975)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Beano (founded 1938)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fran
Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life (1978)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Richard
Cork, David Bomberg (1988)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alfred
Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">George
Steiner, In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-Definition
of Culture (1971)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D.
H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1930)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Petr
Sadecký, Octobriana and the Russian Underground (1971)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Comte
de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror (1868)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writing (1968)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">George
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) 29. Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
(1985)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">James
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Keith
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alberto
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(1986-91)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Susan
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Petry, The Street (1946)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Giuseppe
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Don
DeLillo, White Noise (1985)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Douglas
Harding, On Having No Head (1961)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anatole
Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage (1990)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charles
White, The Life and Times of Little Richard (1984)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Michael
Chabon, Wonder Boys (1995)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arthur
Koestler, Darkness at Noon (1940)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Muriel
Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
Braine, Room at the Top (1957)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elaine
Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (1979)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Truman
Capote, In Cold Blood (1966)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Orlando
Figes, A People's Tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924 (1996)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rupert
Thomson, The Insult (1996)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gerri
Hirshey, Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music (1984)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arthur
C. Danto, Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical
Perspective (1992)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Frank
Norris, McTeague (1899)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mikhail
Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (1940)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nella
Larsen, Passing (1929)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hubert
Selby Jnr, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Frank
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(1961)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nathaniel
West, The Day of the Locust (1939)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tadanoori
Yokoo, Tadanoori Yokoo (1997)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jon
Savage, Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture (2007)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wallace
Thurman, Infants of the Spring (1932)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hart
Crane, The Bridge (1930)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eugenia
Ginzburg, Into the Whirlwind (1967)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ed
Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory (1975)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (1930)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peter
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bruce
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Camille
Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily
Dickinson (1990)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jessica
Mitford, The American Way of Death (1963)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Otto
Friedrich, Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s
(1972), Private Eye (1961-the present)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">R.
D. Laing, The Divided Self (1959)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vance
Packard, The Hidden Persuaders (1957)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Evelyn
Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Howard
Zinn, A People's History of the United States (1980)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wyndham
Lewis, Blast (1914)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ian
McEwan, In Between the Sheets (1978)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">David
Kidd, All the Emperor's Horses (1961)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malcolm
Cowley (ed.), Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 1st
Series (1958)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Christa
Wolf, The Quest for Christa T (1968)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tom
Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia (2002)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anthony
Burgess, Earthly Powers (1980)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Howard
Norman, The Bird Artist (1994)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spike
Milligan, Puckoon (1963)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charlie
Gillett, The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock 'n' Roll (1970)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lawrence
Weschler, Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (1995).</span></span></li></ul>
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Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
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and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-79820782017458333852023-06-04T16:57:00.051-07:002023-06-18T17:10:31.621-07:00Forgiven: The Amish School Shooting, a Mother’s Love, and a Story of Remarkable Grace<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYiz1pcdN362XBCXjaIhg8GR7szRGZEGxTmAg9Y3pv_055wC0Wtk2jNS7e3Wk_W1IXmEkFWDSMwWJI5FhqMymEiyqm_VXBTaXvmMgt6XG1d92UDQN_TjkT7uz4PsyumEM32mT_z33xtouRW_I1J_aaDpts2Wrr5D2YmDSbwyAAUDnmL73HGbpUDY_h/s279/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="181" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYiz1pcdN362XBCXjaIhg8GR7szRGZEGxTmAg9Y3pv_055wC0Wtk2jNS7e3Wk_W1IXmEkFWDSMwWJI5FhqMymEiyqm_VXBTaXvmMgt6XG1d92UDQN_TjkT7uz4PsyumEM32mT_z33xtouRW_I1J_aaDpts2Wrr5D2YmDSbwyAAUDnmL73HGbpUDY_h/s1600/Untitled.jpg" width="181" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><b>Book: Forgiven: The Amish School Shooting, a Mother’s Love, and a Story of Remarkable Grace</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-fe6117c3-7fff-d754-969c-7570ea1423ac" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Terri Roberts</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Libby from the San Francisco Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Bethany House Publishers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9780764217326 (ISBN10: 0764217321)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: May 29, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: June 4, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">240 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Christianity, Personal Growth</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religion: Christianity</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religious Quality: 3 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Christianity-Teaching Quality: 4 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charlie
Roberts, the author’s oldest son, kills five Amish girls in their
classroom. The Amish comes alongside of the Roberts family, forgiving
them and going beyond the words with making sure they had everything
they needed. </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
story is from Terri Roberts’ point of view, being on the receiving
end of forgiveness. She shares her questions, her feelings and how
the Amish people showed God’s love. </span></span>
</p>
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<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Terri
Roberts-author, mother of Charlie Roberts</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charlie
Roberts-oldest son of the Roberts family. killer of five Amish girls
and wounding of several others</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chuck
Roberts-Terri’s husband. Retired police officer.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jake
Stoltzfoos-Robert’s land and house was bought from him</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Henry
Stoltzfoos-Jake’s son was the Robert’s nearest neighbor</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chris
Stoltzfoos-owned field next to Roberts</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Josh
Roberts-second son worked in the oil fields of Louisiana</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zach
Roberts-third son worked in Manhattan</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jon
Roberts-youngest son</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marie
Roberts (Monville)-Charlie’s wife</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ken&Nadine
Welk-Family friends</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marian
Fisher-age 13, asked to be shot first</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emma
Fisher-age 8, wounded, sister of Marian</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Naomi
Rose Ebersol, age 7, died</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ana
Mae Stolzfus- age 12, died</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary
Liz Miller-age 8, died</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lena
Miller-age 7, died</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rachel
Ann Stolzfus-age 8, wounded</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sarah
Ann Stoltsfus-age 8, wounded</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Esther
King-age 13, wounded</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rosanna
King-age 6, massive brain injury</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emma
Mae Zook-school teacher of the classroom where the killings happened</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cheri
Lovre-counselor from Oregon, Crisis Management Institute</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Linda
Shoemaker-counselor for a local elementary school who was their for
all</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kate
Zook-another person who came along side of Roberts</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
Jon Jo during a sermon</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
May 28, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book: May 28, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do I want to read this book: Pastor was talking about mercy and
forgiveness</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it? A good example of forgiveness</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
do not think the book ever answers the question of why did Charlie
Roberts kill those girls?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts-I
use this to indicate Terri Roberts, versus the rest of the Roberts
family.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
worked at a place called the</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sight_%26_Sound_Theatres"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
Sights&Sound Theater</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
This theater produces Christian plays and now films.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Takes
place at a town in Pennsylvania called</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_Mines,_Pennsylvania"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
Nickel Mines</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
story seems a bit disjointed. Roberts tells what happens around the
time of the shooting, then jumps back to some piece of earlier family
history. I think she is trying to give background. But to me it
causes the loss of continuity of the story.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
the Amish, non-Amish people are the “English”. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
the Black church Wednesday night meeting was shot up, there was
something about several of the people saying they forgave the
shooter. At Roof’s trial, several family members of the </span></span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/06/17/emanuel-explores-power-forgiveness-after-charleston-church-massacre/1478473001/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>victims
expressed forgiveness and sadness </u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">towards
Roof. Also this </span></span><a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/02/27/south-carolina-ame-church-shooting"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>article</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
found it interesting that some of the principles which Desmond Tutu
expounded in his book, </span></span><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-book-of-forgiving.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>The
Book of Forgiving</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
is put to flesh through what the Amish did. Things like telling your
story, forgiveness brings release, and moving forward.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Foreword
Beverly Lewis</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Summarizes
the issues concerning forgiveness, particularly following the Amish’s
bishop in forgiving. Lewis points out that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>they
had to purposefully choose to forgive daily and, in some cases,
hour-by-hour.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Prologue</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
sets the scene where her family lived in a pretty much idyllic
setting. Each family has its small issues, but by and large, it was a
great place to live in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. And then
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Suddenly
I had a new identity: the mother of the Amish schoolhouse shooter.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
That is the story which Roberts presents-how do you suddenly deal
with the notoriety of being the family where your son is a mass
murderer? Can you even live in the place which used to be home?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then the question of, what kind of mother raises a mass murderer?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is an interesting phrase: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
love forward.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I cannot say it is a main theme, but it is one which Roberts expands
on.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>1
The Happening</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
has returned from a mission trip to France. Gives a brief
description of the family.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chuck
tells Roberts to go to their son’s home immediately a day or two
later. She finds out her son killed the girls and that Charlie is
dead.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>2
Tsunami!</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shock
and initial refusal to accept that it was her son who did the
shooting. Then it sank in. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about what happened in the school room. Notifying other family
members about what happened.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anger
at Charlie. Anger at God.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>3
Beginnings</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Background.
Roberts was born with clubfoot; so was Charlie. A fair amount of pain
and suffering to get them corrected. She had always been in Amish
country. Family not Amish. But her grandfather was religious, saying
his liturgical prayers before he drifted off to sleep.</span></span></p>
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<u> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4
Lancaster</span></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More
background on Roberts. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>But
by the end of my school years, my prayers had dwindled to mere
formality. It was not that I believed less in God or doubted in any
way His existence or sovereignty. It was just that I had other
priorities. Life was good, and life was busy.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Being busy gets in the way of belief and love of God. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about the first date with Chuck (Charles). </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>5
Invasion</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back
to the day of the shooting. Friends from church or work gather with
them. But so was the news gathering in front. Zach’s response was
that he was so hurt by Charlie he did not want anything to do with
him or his funeral. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describes
Roberts' broken heart over the whole episode. Henry Stoltzfoos who
had relatives who died, came over. Instead of anger, he had
compassion. His words indicated love and caring and that the Amish
did not hold the family responsible.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a section with Henry Stoltzfoos’s words. The reason why he went
over was a prompting from the Lord. He felt weakness as he approached
the house. Instead of talking about how bad Charlie was for the
killing, he heard Chuck out and his crying and his sorrow,
particularly for the mothers and teachers and children. Henry said
that he felt it was not so much Charlie, but that the devil used
Charlie to do his evil purposes.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Henry
also reassured the family that there was no reason for them to move.
Dressed in black, Roberts felt that Henry was their angel in black. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
friend, Betty, noted that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
happened today was a tiny slice of your son’s entire life. When
your mind goes there, don’t stop. Let it go back further to the
thirty-two years of wonderful memories you have. Refocus on those
memories, not the events of this day.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
A good thing to remember-even something bad to me is a small slice of
another’s life also only a small slice of my own life.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>6
Charlie</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about her husband Chuck. He became a police officer, a profession
with a high divorce rate. Four years after getting married Charlie
was born-with clubfoot. Talks about the painful process of
straightening his limbs. Robert's mother started going to a
Neighborhood Bible Study. The change in her mother caused Roberts to
start her own study group. Her faith started to grow.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>7
Homeschooling</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charlie
was not a student, but a worker with his hands. This led to the
family withdrawing from the school and doing homeschooling. He
homeschooled with his grandmother and came home on weekends. He also
loved animals which his grandparents had dogs. His dog got lost and
died. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Charlie
blamed himself.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>8
A New Home</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Continues
on with Charlie’s story. As he grew older, he got jobs. A second
dog needed to be put down. They moved one last time into their
current house-part of the land her parents had owned. They also
switched churches.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>9
Choosing Forgiveness</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
asked the question: What turned Charlied into a mass killer? He
seemed like a loving son who cared for others. In his letter to his
wife, he made mention of guilt of molesting some of his cousins. But
the police had already investigated these and found they did not
exist. Roberts is left with that she had no answers. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Amish as a group and individuals reached out to the family,
particularly Marie, Charlie’s wife, with a message of love and
forgiveness. Why was the big question circulating through
everybody’s mind? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
was it about the Amish lifestyle, belief system, faith that made this
possible? …</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
came down to the God they worshiped, a God of forgiveness and love.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I think it is when you go to God for forgiveness, you are given it.
Also you are given a model of what forgiveness looks like-Jesus. But
there is a command: You are to forgive as you have been forgiven.
Jesus talks about this in his parables.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
Amish person explained that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Forgiveness
is a choice … We choose to forgive.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Their
level of forgiveness included sharing the gifts coming in for the
Amish families who lost their girls or who had them injured with
Marie’s family. Their rationale is that she had also lost a husband
and her children a father. One of the fathers phoned up Zach and left
a message saying for him to attend his brother’s funeral. Real
compassion. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An
Amish family member included a statement in Roberts book. The person
includes this: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
would be worse? Would you rather have lost a child, or have your son
have done something like this?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
were stories of self-sacrifice and miracles in the midst of horror. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>10
Love and Loss</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More
background on Charlie. One incident where Charlie got in a car wreck,
Roberts prayed for his recovery. Now she was wondering, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why,
God, did you answer my prayer? Why did you spare Charlie’s life
then only to permit this to happen? If you could reach down to
protect my son when that truck flipped, why did you not reach down
this time to prevent his vehicle from ever reaching that schoolhouse?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talked
about how Charlie courted Marie. Then the death of their first two
daughters. But the joy of the third child-born. Charlie was lacking
deep personal friendships. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>11
Hurricane</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before
the killings, there was turmoil in the family. One son divorced,
another without a job, and the third had knee surgery laying him up.
Roberts was going to visit him when she found out she had
cancer-stage three breast cancer. A friend suggested a </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>living
foods diet.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Goes through the process which she had. She would try traditional
medicine. If that did not work she would do the diet.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>12
Calm Waters</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More
about the breast cancer-life expectancy: 50/50 chance for 5 years.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Faith
is not faith unless it is tested. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
decided to follow this </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>living
foods diet.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It required her whole hearted commitment. She went through a three
week program in San Diego, which started by detoxing her body. In six
months she was clean of the cancer according to the medical tests. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
asked why doctors do not recommend this treatment-very few will stick
to it. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>13
A Garment of Praise</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Funerals
and remembrances of the victims, both those who died and those who
were wounded. Zach came to his brother’s funeral. The pastor showed
kindness by doing everything himself rather than having others
involved-kept things private. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
news media found out the burial location and date. So they were
staked out. The Amish though provided a shield of their bodies to
block cameras and others from observing.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
here, Roberts struggles with forgiving her own son. The person whom
she loves, but has caused anguish to her, her family and others. She
remembers that forgiveness is a choice. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
we cannot forgive, how can we be forgiven?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
From this she chooses to forgive and feels relief, even as the Amish
are forgiving her son. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
have never encountered anyone who has better modeled to me the life
and character of Jesus Christ than was displayed to us that day by
the Amish of Lancaster County.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>14
Facing Firsts</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Went
to church for the first time since the shooting. What would she face?
Turned out she faced kindness and caring. Zach noted that in the
culture he lived in, forgiveness is not part of it. Talks about how
one of Roberts co-workers was an EMT at the scone. She had a hard
time emotionally dealing with Roberts at work and eventually quit.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
different EMT talks about his feelings being at the scene and then
one of the Amish parents asking how he is doing. The level of caring
in that community. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
can things return to being normal so fast?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sad
to know that there are whole institutes created to deal with this
kind of trauma. One of the things the counselor told them is that
right now when the grief is fresh, tears will come in buckets, but
you will never be completely gone from the tears. This has allowed
Roberts to be more compassionate towards others.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>15
Bart Fire Hall</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chuck
and Roberts were asked to come to visit the Millers, parents of two
of the girls who were killed. Roberts saw there was pain, but also
forgiveness. She felt this was part of their working through their
loss.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
counselor had suggested Roberts watch at least one news coverage of
the shooting. That way she would not be caught unaware when she saw
it in a strange place. She also recognized that she and Chuck healed
at a different way and at different rates.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Received
cards from Amish folks as well as a book of handwritten
correspondence from them. There was a community gathering as well
where sorrows could be expressed as well as mutual support. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cheri
Lovre accompanied Roberts to the home of Rosanna King, the 6 year old
who was severely wounded and would never recover. Interesting.
Roberts was concerned about finding the right words. I am too. I
wonder if being there is more important than the words spoken. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Amish are shown to be much more accepting of events as being part of
God’s will than trying to figure it out or being angry towards God.
Faith is that God can bring good from evil.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>16
A New Normal</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
decided to visit each child’s family. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
were a whole string of “firsts” after the killings, or The
Happening as the Amish called it. For the first Christmas they
decided to get away and go on a Disney cruise. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
shares about each visit. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>17
Peace Child</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Japanese
students came to Lancaster County bringing peace gifts to the Amish
students. Roberts was invited as well. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Amish built a sunroom for the Roberts, a place of peace for her. It
also became a place to host family, friends, and her new Amish
friends. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>18
Moving Forward</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marie,
Charlie’s wife, reconnected with an old family friend. They were
getting married. Difficult to accept. Particularly so soon after The
Happening. When they got married, Marie and her new husband moved a
short distance away, but far enough that there would not be instant
recognition. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
notes that healing is not done at a steady pace, nor is it always
upward. But more like a rollercoaster. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
was asked to speak to a group of Japanese students. She did, but had
to learn to pace herself with a translator. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>19
Anniversary</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chuck
and Teri Roberts sent a letter on the anniversary of The Happening
talking about how much the Amish’s friendship has meant to them. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
would scour reports of mass shootings to see if there was something
which would unlock why her Charlie did what he did. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Like
my son, many of the perpetrators had struggled with severe learning
disabilities. They were introverts, quiet and withdrawn at times.
Most had come from normal, caring homes and had been normal,
well-behaved, even affectionate children. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She thinks that one thing which would help is if we supported
children with learning disabilities more.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
bond of friendship that the Amish had extended to our family had
become my greatest comfort as the months went on.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
invited the Amish to come for a picnic and pool party. Realized there
are cultural differences. Such as boys do not swim with girls and
vice versa. It was enjoyable. Later Roberts invited the girls to a
high tea. A good bonding and reconciliation time.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>20
Rosanna</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More
teas, this time including the mothers and well as the children. They
shared the highs and lows of last year. Roberts notes </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Can
anything be more precious than time spent with women who’ve endured
pain and yet hold eternal hope in their hearts?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
one unique sharing was the mother of Rosanna-the mothers of dead
children had other mothers to turn to. The mothers of those who were
healing, same. She was unique in that her daughter would not heal.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
volunteered to help with Rosanna at dinner time once a week so the
family could eat in peace. This was harder than it sounded. But each
week Roberts was able to do more with Rosanna. Over the years
Rosanna has improved only a little. Roberts goes back to that first
week when Rosanna’s mother said </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Perhaps
God has allowed this for Rosanna to be a constant reminder of that
day.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>21
A Spacious Place</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each
anniversary brought renewed anguish. Then afterwards there was </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
sweet release of that tension would remind me I’d survived another
year. No, I’d surrendered another year.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her
life had now settled into an acceptable routine. But there was still
places where she would think how Charlie loved a place and how could
he have done what he did? Even these moments started to recede. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
now started to be in demand as a speaker. Her message was
forgiveness. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
forgiveness is not automatic, even for the Amish. She was invited to
speak in Ohio to an Amish community because they were struggling to
forgive how a respected member of their community had murdered his
family. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Amish calling the mother of the Nickel Mines schoolhouse gunman to
bring healing to other Amish in pain. This could only be described as
a miracle of divine grace, love, and forgiveness.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
One daughter was not in the group. Roberts was encouraged to talk
with her. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
did so and encouraged her not to shut herself off from family and
friends who were reaching out to her. So much of my own healing had
come through refusing to shut myself off out of shame for what
Charlie had done, but allowing others who’d poured out compassion
and help to be part of my life.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is her advise to people who are hurting.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>22
The Fifth Anniversary</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
said that she had an interview with </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>AP
News Service.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It is not on their site, but that may be because of the story's age.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
was a symposium at the five year mark where Roberts gave her first
interview to the press. The Amish would refuse interviews, but were
willing to speak alongside her. She started to get invited to speak
internationally in places like Japan and Peru. She and the Amish also
were invited to speak after the Newtown murders. The Amish knew her
message and when she left out a part, they prompted her to say </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
you forgive, you don’t get bitter.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>23
What Now?</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
gives eight life lessons she has learned through this time of trial:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One:
Move Forward</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-She
differentiates between </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Moving
forward” versus “moving on.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
To her moving on is turning her back on what happened; moving forward
is progressing from that point, acknowledging the pain and learning
to live.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Two:
Think on These Things</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-introspection
to learn and change vs lingering in the pain</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Three:
Practice Forgiveness</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-releases
the pain</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Four:
Make Right Choices</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Make
a choice. As the Amish said, forgiving is a choice.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Five:
Share Your Story With Others</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-tell
the story. First to God, then others as you learn what the story is.
This is very much like what Tutu has to say.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Six:
Communicate, Communicate, Communicate</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-When
you see someone n pain, communicate with them. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
was a time I worried that I might be seen as interfering. But this
isn’t meddling. It’s letting others know you care.</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Seven:
Pray With Thanksgiving</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-there
is still goodness in your life. Identify and be thankful</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Eight:
Focus on Eternity</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Focus
on the forever in this life.</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Epilogue:
A Rainbow Covenant </u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
she was writing this book she received news that breast cancer had
returned. She ends the book with </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
is well with my soul. I am at peace. I am loved. I am forgiven.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since
the book was written, Terri Roberts has died.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Blessed
are the merciful.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
That is the text which the sermon was on a couple of weeks ago. In
the sermon, it was pointed out that part of being merciful is to
forgive. This book, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Forgiven,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
was talked about as an example of what forgiveness is about.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
literature, it is rather plain. It is the story of Terri Roberts told
by herself. Her son killed five Amish girls in a shooting and wounded
several others. It is a story of being on the receiving end of
forgiveness. Even when the killings were just a few hours old, the
Amish, both in general and in particular, reached out to Roberts to
show that she was forgiven by them. This included the parents of the
children who died.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
talks about how lost and guilty she felt when her son killed these
girls. She asked the questions of why? There is no resolution in the
book. The emphasis is how through the Amish’s gift of forgiveness
she was able to start recovering. This is the thrust of the book-how
she received the forgiveness and how it worked to make her a new
person.</span></span></p>
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<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
you read the book, what thoughts do you have about Charlie Roberts?
Terri Roberts? The Amish?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
lessons does Terri Roberts bring to our attention throughout the
book, and then particularly in Chapter 23?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
your child or someone you love fosters the act of being a mass
murderer, what thoughts would you have? Roberts talks about having a
new identity. How would that affect who you are? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
would be worse? Would you rather have lost a child, or have your son
have done something like this?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
someone whom you love is murdered, what are your thoughts towards the
murderer? Towards those who are close to the murderer?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do the Amish, both individually and as a group, forgive Charlie
Roberts (and his whole extended family)? Through this book, do you
see them as automatically forgiving or having to work through the
pain of loss to forgiveness? What does that say about how they view
their Christian faith? What do they mean when they say that
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Forgiveness
is a choice</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?
How did they decide to forgive? What actions did they do to show they
had forgiven the Roberts family?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
took on a role of describing the love and forgiveness exhibited in
the Amish community. Describe what she does. How do you think the
Amish reacted to her taking on this role?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about the nature of being a Christian and forgiving. Where does the
need to forgive come from? What examples are we shown?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Roberts
uses the phrase </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>To
love forward.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What does that mean? How do you do that?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
you have read Desmond Tutu's book, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Book of Forgiving</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
how does Tutu’s approach compliment or differ from what Roberts
describe?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Forgiveness</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as a teaching tool?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
central ideas does the author present?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is the culture described in this book different than where we live?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author examine economics and politics, family traditions, the
arts, religious beliefs, language or food?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p> </div><div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17679333-one-light-still-shines?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=KAW0FhppQK&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>One
Light Still Shines</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Marie Monville</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24178.Charlotte_s_Web?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=W2HTgsoUOY&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Charlotte’s
Web</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by E.B. White</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8127.Anne_of_Green_Gables?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=zQe3R5Hkxa&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Anne
of Green Gables</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
L.M. Montgomery</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1163885.Amish_Grace?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=1bt0FR7iwi&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Amish
Grace</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
by Don Kraybill</i></span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23792199-the-forgiveness-project?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=bKFmjCd21Q&rank=4"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>The
Forgiveness Project</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Michael S. Barry</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: Picture an idyllic, sun-kissed valley. Fields stretch to the
base of a pine-cloaked ridge, a green and yellow patchwork of tall,
tasseled corn, drying alfalfa, ripened wheat and barley.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: I am forgiven.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Forgiveness
is a choice. Chp 9 Choosing Forgiveness</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Faith
is not faith unless it is tested. Chp 12 Calm Waters</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
you forgive, you don’t get bitter. Chp 22 The Fifth Anniversary</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Acknowledgments</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Foreword
Beverly Lewis</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prologue
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1
The Happening</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2
Tsunami!</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3
Beginnings</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4
Lancaster</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5
Invasion</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6
Charlie</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7
Homeschooling</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">8
A New Home</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9
Choosing Forgiveness</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">10
Love and Loss</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">11
Hurricane</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">12
Calm Waters</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">13
A Garment of Praise</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">14
Facing Firsts</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">15
Bart Fire Hall</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">16
A New Normal</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">17
Peace Child</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">18
Moving Forward</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">19
Anniversary</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">20
Rosanna</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">21
A Spacious Place</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">22
The Fifth Anniversary</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">23
What Now?</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Epilogue:
A Rainbow Covenant </span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<br />
<b id="References">References:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/forgiven/355530"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author’s</span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/JoyThroughAdversity"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
Facebook</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
page</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Forgiven-School-Shooting-Mothers-Remarkable/dp/0764217321"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Terri-Roberts/author/B00MJV0GUC?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forgiven-terri-roberts/1121198378"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26212914-forgiven"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14173908.Terri_Roberts"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Washington
Post </span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/10/01/10-years-ago-her-son-killed-amish-children-their-families-immediately-accepted-her-into-their-lives/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mother-of-amish-school-shooter-shares-amazing-story-of-forgiveness/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>CBS
News</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Guardian’s </span></span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mother-of-amish-school-shooter-terri-roberts-reveals-what-is-like-to-be-the-mother-of-a-mass-killer-a6752581.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Create
with Joy</span></span><a href="https://www.create-with-joy.com/2015/12/forgiven-by-terri-roberts-book-review.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
blog</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NPR
</span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/09/30/495905609/a-decade-after-amish-school-shooting-gunman-s-mother-talks-of-forgiveness"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">PennLive
on </span></span><a href="https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2013/11/nickel_mines_shooting_document.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Zach
Roberts documentary</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-22683429686071445822023-05-05T17:19:00.064-07:002023-05-17T17:39:33.277-07:00The River Between<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZAmUppfajP3fixa8_hwQ8Hs1B0B-Pr8dl5XxiMx6ZuZ_RFt78o5klyuLJAjVK8rRaR0y5VIcrfuPcUwjx-sNRSjWZqt_g1P1F8MnMqmK9PC9C_Bu1VqqoCAktj631JzB5gKQvARU3lHMZDBXa8-3ryVmt-0JA57Pe7vOLTLG6kgesxvxtTspR0TO/s1000/710QixGhnFL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="654" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZAmUppfajP3fixa8_hwQ8Hs1B0B-Pr8dl5XxiMx6ZuZ_RFt78o5klyuLJAjVK8rRaR0y5VIcrfuPcUwjx-sNRSjWZqt_g1P1F8MnMqmK9PC9C_Bu1VqqoCAktj631JzB5gKQvARU3lHMZDBXa8-3ryVmt-0JA57Pe7vOLTLG6kgesxvxtTspR0TO/s320/710QixGhnFL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><b>Book: The River Between</b><p></p><div>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#BookReferences">Book References</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-dcd362e1-7fff-308c-a06b-92f08bdb8d8b" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/51936.Ng_g_wa_Thiong_o" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: ePub on Libby from the Los Angeles Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Heinemann</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9780435905484 (ISBN10: 0435905481)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: April 6, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: May 5, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">152 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Fiction, Africa, Book Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: Low</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3 ½ out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religion: Christianity, African Tradition</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Religious Quality: 3 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Christianity-Teaching Quality: 2 out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Tells a good story: 3 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Character development: 4 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis (<span style="color: #cc0000;">Caution: Spoiler Alert</span>-Jump to <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-river-between.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a>):</b><br />
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Set
in early 1900’s in mountains of Kenaya, this is a story of conflict
and acceptance. Europeans have come to Kenaya and is making their way
into the backcountry. First through religion and the embassaries of
Christ, followed by the government. </span></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
first the Gikuyu tribe was not bothered as they thought they were
safe. But as more people turned to Christianity, the tribe was losing
its old ways. This sets up the conflict between those who want to
follow the tribal ways-circumcision, both male and female, and those
who see it as the mark of Satan.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are three leaders: Joshua who is powerful Christian preacher,
Waiyaki, a young man who has the pedigree of the tribe and an elder
Kabonyi who wants the power of leadership. The story talks about the
development of Waiyaki and the torment of not knowing the right way.
The culmination is when Waiyaki takes a wife of Joshua’s daughter.
Joshua sees that his daughter is rejecting Christianity and Kabonyi
sees it that Waiyaki is rejecting the old ways. That is the end of
the story.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki-protagonist</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chege-Waiyaki’s
father and prophet. Lives on the Kameno ridge</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reverend
Livingstone-white missionary, never appears in story, except as
reference, still a character who looms over the story line</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kamau-friend
and school mate of Waiyak. Son of Kabonyi</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kinuthia-friend
and school mate of Waiyak. Fatherless. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joshua=Gikuyu
Christian, powerful preacher. Middle aged. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nyambura-eldest
daughter of Joshua</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Muthoni-youngest
daughter of Joshua. Get circumcised and dies</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miriamu-Joshua’s
wife, and Muthoni and Nyambura’s mother</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kabonyi-former
convert to Christianity. Antagonist to Waiyaki. Kamau’s father</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Muga
was Kibirio-an ancient prophet in which Chege is a descendent of</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gikuyu-
a Bantu ethnic group native to Central Kenya. At a population of
8,148,668 as of 2019, they account for 17.13% of the total population
of Kenya, making them Kenya's largest ethnic group. From </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikuyu_people"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Wikipedia</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Makuyu-village
of the Gikuyu, converted to Christianity</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kameno-rival
village of the Gikuyu, remained with the tribal ways</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kiami-formed
council to protect the tribe from European influence</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Honia-creek/river.
Name meant cure, or bring-back-to-life.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Siriana
Missionary Center-Where the white school was as well as where the
missionaries came out of.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marioshoni-Waiyaki’s
school</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
introduction talks about that this is a story which shows the
struggles between the African traditional values against the values
which the European invasion brings. As I think about what Ngugi says,
I think the introduction is right. But there is also a bigger picture
which the introduction is too myopic about. Isn’t this the same
struggle which happens anytime there is an invasion of thought? Such
as when new management comes into a department and upends how things
were run? Or when scientific thought supplants rational thought which
supplanted religious thought?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Soon
after reading this story, there were </span></span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/kenya-cult-deaths-paul-mackenzie-starvation-23109a5c47e8ab9a4d7b5d528f52d579"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>news
reports</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
coming out of Kenaya of a cult where the pastor said that starving
yourself will bring you to heaven. Besides not being a Christian
doctrine, it did remind me of the authoritarian way which Joshua had
with his family and people-not that Joshua ever preached that. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Message
from Chinua Achebe</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
read one of Achebe’s book, </span></span><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2013/06/things-fall-apart.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Things
Fall Apart</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
back in 2013. It is a story which has stayed with me.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Achebes’s
concern is that stories about Africa are too simple, usually linear.
He says Africa is a complex continent, similar to generalizing about
Europe would not give a good impression of Europeans.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
last five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a
body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light, and now
the time has come for Africans to tell their own stories</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Introduction</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Written
by</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzodinma_Iweala"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
Uzodinma Iweala</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-a
Nigerian-American author and medical doctor.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
introduction talks about freeing the mind of preconceptions and how
most people in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Matrix</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
where oblivious to the controlling aspects of the Matrix. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ngugi’s
body of work, from his 1965 novel “The River Between” to his 2012
memoir “In the House of the Interpreter”, is the red pill,
delivering readers from a simplistic understanding of the forces of
colonialism in Africa to a complicated imagining of Africa before,
during, and after colonialism.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ngugi
describes African existence as a struggle between two competing
forces, an imperialist tradition and a resistance tradition…</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ngugi’s
imperialism is not a time-bound event.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The commentator expands about how Ngugi is writing about the struggle
between a mindset, which just because the colonists have left, there
is still a mindset of oppression. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
commentator has set how Ngugi is thinking. I suspect looking more at
the end result of Ngugi’s work and looking back into </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
River Between</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
which was one of Ngugi’s two earliest works. He talks about how
Ngugi appreciated and loved the English literature and the Christian
traditions. But then there was the dichotomy of this richness of
thought and culture with the experience Ngugi had in person. Where</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
the British, who were responsible for his education and for
introducing him to the Christian church, imprisoned his brother and
tortured his mother during a state of emergency.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Waiyaki reflects the tension Ngugi feels. The admiration of what has
been created with reality. He also shows that it is not that
everything will be returned to peace once the Europeans are driven
out, but there is conflict among the tribe.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then there are the ridges-the sleeping lions in Ngugi’s metaphor. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prophecy
of Chege: The Europeans will come as butterflies. A savour will deal
with them.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
hears the prophecy. The only other person besides Chege who knows it
is Kabonyi. This sets up the conflict between the two. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hidden
here in this moment is the fatal flaw passed from father to son, the
belief that the upheaval created by the white man can be stilled by
incorporating into daily life the white man’s philosophy and using
it against him.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
… </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>More
than anything else, it is the white man’s religion, Christianity,
that exacerbates existing tensions within the community.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joshua
plays the part of Christianity badly affecting Africans. His own
family yearns for African ways, leading to both daughters
disassociating themselves from their father.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>While
not set at a particular time, The River Between maps loosely to the
turmoil resulting from a 1929 decree by the Church of Scotland
Mission prohibiting circumcised individuals from attending mission
schools. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Circumcision
was more than just a ceremony but a marking of passage, an acceptance
into the tribal ways, a means of transferring wealth from one
generation to another. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
</i></span></span><a href="https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43167491.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Church
of Scotland Mission’s prohibition of circumcision</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
amounted to a prohibition of tribal life and of the future itself.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moderns
look at female circumcision as female genital mutilation. I wonder
about this. Would Ngugi today look at this ceremony the same way? The
commentator says that Ngugi’s view is not for outsiders to govern
the practice, but for the tribe to determine if change is needed. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Muthoni</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
offers her body as a locus of compromise for two competing
worldviews, attempting to reconcile them, and to bring about a
utopia.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She dies and the grand vision of unification of the two ways dies as
well. This is a lesson Waiyaki does not learn. That even education is
not sufficient enough to marry the two. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Will
education give us back our land? Let him answer that.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Can there be any reconciliation?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seems
like the arguments I have heard in the 21st century is that it is a
painful and medically unneeded operation. So it should be stopped.
But I think that Ngugi makes a case that it is a tribal initiation
and are the westerners giving another ritual win its place? Sort of
like what Jesus said that if you cast out a demon, unless the house
is filled up again, something worse will come. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
One</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a lot of symbolism to start this story. You have the two ridges,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Kameno</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Makuyu</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
separated by the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Honia
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(creek/river)</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
which meant cure, or bring-back-to-life.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The valley between the two ridges was the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>valley
of life.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Kameno</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
was the traditional Gikuyu village while </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Makuyu</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
had embraced European Christianity of a more fundamental style.
Consequently, the two sides became antagonists instead of partners.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each
ridge had its own tradition of superiority. It was from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Kameno</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
that Muga had spoken a prophecy: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
shall come a people with clothes like butterflies.” These were
the white men.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Two</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two
boys are fighting-</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Kamau</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Kinuthia.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Sounded more like “boy fighting”, One from each ridge. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Waiyaki</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
breaks up the fight by appealing to the fact that both are from the
hills and have that as commonality. There is a phrase here which
shows the tenor of the book. Kamau does obey Waiyaki’s injunction
to stop fighting. But there is a feeling of humiliation and
self-hate. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talked
about Chege and how he was the most knowledgeable of all of the hill
country. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Chege
himself claimed nothing. Ever since he had warned the people against
Siriana Missionary Center and they had refused to hear his voice, he
had talked little.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He had prophesied that the butterflies had arrived and that the
people should be prepared. But the people said the white man </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>knows
not the ways of the land.” But the white man had come to Siriana,
and Joshua and Kabonyi had been converted.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The ways of the ridges had been abandoned. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
there was a secret which Chege knew. He would only reveal this secret
to the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>right
one.</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
was afraid of his father. Consequently he tried to impress him with
his knowledge. But Chege was afraid for him. He reminded Waiyaki that
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>tomorrow
is the day of your second birth</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
is this second birth?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Three</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Demi
na Mathathi</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-I
did not really see a good explanation for these figures of ancient
history. But from the Gugi description, they are close to Adam and
Eve of the Gikuyu. Waiyaki was a descendant of them. But it sounded
like most of the villagers in the area.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
born again is the culmination of becoming an adult, in Waiyaki’s
case, becoming a man and being accepted as having that status.
Purification was the first step. But apparently Waiyaki saw a minor
vision during this which frightened everyone.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
end of it is to be circumcised after going through the rituals. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Four</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chege
takes Waiyaki to the sacred grove. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Chege
would then pour a shower of saliva on to his breast in the Gikuyu way
of blessing.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
As they progress, Chege tells the secrets of each plant they meet.
This brough Waiyaki close to his father. He felt he was being taken
into the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>calabash
of trust and responsibility.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Explanation
of why men owned everything-women were weak and nothing feared them. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
climbed high enough that all the ridges appeared flat. Even the
Kameno and Makuyu ridges came together and lost their antagonism.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Makuyu,
Kameno and the other ridges lay in peace and there was no sign of
life, as one stood on the hill of God.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It is true. When I am in my fire lookout, I see that the land
appears flatter. You can trace ridges so they merge together. I had
not thought of ridges this way-we all come together at some point, we
just do not recognize it, nor do we travel back far enough.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Five</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Father
and son are in unison in a trance like state at the holy site. They
see Kerinyaga-an area, and I think a mountain in Kenya. But there
does not seem to be a direct reference to it. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chege
calls this a blessed, sacred place. Yet, they do not go often here.
Is it that to remain sacred a place has to be reserved for
specialness? What does it say about how we treat special places? </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a revelation that Muga’s blood flows through Chege and Waiyaki’s
veins. This knowledge and place is a fearful thing. Chege tells him
do not fear, fight fear. He also tells the prophecy: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Salvation
comes from the hills. From the blood that flows in me, I say, from
the same tree a son shall rise. And his duty shall be to lead and
save the people.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
Chebe and maybe Kabonyi, the traitor, knows the prophecy. And now
Waiyabi.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chebe’s
instruction: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Heed
the prophecy. Go to the Mission place. Learn all the wisdom and all
the secrets of the white man. But do not follow his vices. Be true to
your people and the ancient rites.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Waiyabi fears that since they rejected Muga, will they reject
Waiyabi? Chebe says </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
time will come—I can see it coming—when they shall cry for a
savior. . . .”</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyabi
went in secret to Siriana to learn the white man's ways. Later Kamau
and Kinuthia joined him. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Six</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now
Ngugi talks about Joshua’s daughters. It is against the Christian
principles for the people to be circumcised in the tribal ways. It
seems to go against how the missionary Christians think about tribal
spiritualism. But Joshua’s youngest daughter wants to meld the
tribal and Christian ways and wants to be circumcised. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nyambura
and Muthoni have a discussion about it. Nyambrua knows that their
mother and father will disown Muthoni if she does. But Muthoni says
that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>white
man’s God does not quite satisfy me.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In the tribal ways to be a woman says you must be circumcised. She
wants to feel like a woman. But is that what makes a woman? Are
there certain American features which make a male or female a man or
a woman which do not correspond to reality? </span></span>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Seven</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
missionary work was being done in Siriana with occasional trips into
the hills. Joshua was the main person spreading Christianity in the
hills. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talked
about Joshua and his conversion. How Jesus came to save. People who
heard Joshua, came to be saved. But there were those who went back to
the tribal ways. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Joshua
himself was strict and observed the word to the letter.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
To him, a good Christian home was the finest example of how
Christianity worked.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joshua
felt it was his place to punish sin and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>did
not mind as long as he was executing God’s justice. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The tribal initiations continued on.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
white man were planning on building a government outpost. People felt
Joshua was responsible for this invasion.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Eight</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Muthoni
was gone. It was not until evening that Mthoni was missed by Miriamu.
Joshua wants to know where she has gone. While Nyambura has not been
told, she is certain she has gone to her aunts. Joshua is furious.
She is no longer his daughter-he knows if she has gone to her aunt
then she has gone to get circumcised. Joshua will disown her if she
has. She will be.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ngugi
notes that Miriamu had accepted the Christian way, mostly because of
obedience to Joshua. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>However,
one could still tell by her eyes that this was a religion learned and
accepted; inside the true Gikuyu woman was sleeping</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Nine</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about how Chege and Joshua were friends. But Joshua turning to
Christianity broke the relationship. This left Chege with the warning
that the white man was coming .</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
felt that Christians were breaking all which held the tribe together,
particularly circumcision. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Waiyaki
would never betray the tribe.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While
Chege felt this was true, he was apprehensive that Waiyaki would
fulfill the prophecy. Waiyaki would not be turned from the ways of
the tribe-being schooled at Siriana insured him of this. Chege lived
in his son.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is the keystone of the book: Waiyaki </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>considered
Livingstone, for all his learning and holiness, a little dense in
attacking a custom whose real significance in the tribe he did not
understand and probably never would understand.</u></i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
and Muthoni were being initiated at the same ceremony, away from each
other. Seems like Ngugi is saying these two are trying to merge
traditions. But the arc of the story is that they will fail.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
ceremony is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>chaos
created by locked emotions let loose. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Muthoni
seemed to find a natural rhythm in the chaos. But Waiyaki was more
reserved, but then it caught him as well. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>You
just gave yourself to the dream in the rhythm.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Muthoni
explains she is not running away from being a Christian, but also
running towards the tribe. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
want to be a woman made beautiful in the tribe.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
After talking with Muthoni, Waiyaki has</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
a feeling that he lacked something, that he yearned for something
beyond him, came in low waves of sadness that would not let him
sleep.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Ten</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki’s
circumcision has happened He has felt and endured the pain. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
was of the tribe. He had to endure its ways and be inside the secrets
of the hills.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Others were in pain as well. But then it subsided. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
Muthoni is the only woman who has not healed. Waiyaki comes to see
her, out of admiration. She worsens. He and friends take her to the
hospital in Siriana.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Eleven</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Muthoni’s
last words to her sister were </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
see Jesus. And I am a woman beautiful in the tribe.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
question which was on everybody’s lips and mind was “Why did she
do it?”</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chebe
feared for the tribe-he felt the Christian village brought
corruption; his village was all which was beautiful with the tribe.
Chege did not like how Waiyaki became involved with the whole Muthoni
affair. He did not understand.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Livingstone
is getting older and realizing he is not making much progress to
convert the area. And yet, Livingstone brought along the knowledge
that previous missionaries had tried to change the customs of tribes
only to promote fighting. He was determined not to do this. And yet
Muthoni’s death made him realize he needed to confront this evil. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twelve</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describes
the growing battle. Kabyoni breaks from Joshua and now is his enemy.
Siriana now pronounced that those who had been circumcised would no
longer be welcome, unless they renounced their circumcision-meaning
their tribe.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chege
died. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Thirteen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
has set up a school with Kamau and Kinuthia as teachers.The break
with Siriana made this both possible and imperative. But it was
widening the gulf between Joshua’s Christians and the tribal ways
which were foremost in Waiyaki’s mind. There was a kindred spirit
between Kinuthia and Waiyaki, but distrust with Kamau. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
young man who rises to leadership is always a target of jealousy for
his equals, for those older than himself and for those who think they
could have been better leaders.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An
argument between Kamau and Kinuthia is the crux of the book. The
missionaries came in peace, but what followed was other Europeans who
came to conquer. What allegiance does a person have to the
conquerors? Waiyaki thought that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Perhaps
life was a contradiction.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Kiama was being formed to resist the Europeans. Waiyaki feared that
he would be sucked in and he would no longer be able to work with his
calling of education.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
earth was important to the tribe. That was why Kinuthia and others
like him feared the encroachment of the white man.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Fourteen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chege’s
death left Waiyaki desponded. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
was while he was in this mood that the idea of schools had come to
him. … His time to work and serve the people had come.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Native schools were sprouting all over Kenya. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
there they stood, symbols of people’s thirst for the white man’s
secret magic and power. Few wanted to live the white man’s way, but
all wanted this thing, this magic.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here
Ngugi says why circumcision was important: it kept people together,
it bound the tribe to each other. It was the glue which kept the
social structure. There was meaning. Jesus told us that when you
expel a demon, unless there was something else to take its place,
something seven times worse would come in. What tangible thing were
the Christians proposing? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
cry was up. Gikuyu Karinga. Keep the tribe pure. Tutikwenda Irigu. It
was a soul’s cry, a soul’s wish.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
people saw that education would get their children ahead. Waiyaki
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>wanted
to do a lot for all, and serve faithfully. Yet the power of hate and
the ever-widening rift, generated, as it were, by Muthoni’s death,
was enough to worry anyone.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Fifteen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For
all of his talents, he did not have anybody whom he could talk deeply
with. His youngest sister whom he could talk with was dead and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>death
was the end of everything, on this earth.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about how Waiyaki was struggling if education was a corrupting agent.
</span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Muthoni
had died on the high altar of this disruption. She had died with
courage, probably still trying to resolve the conflict within herself
in an attempt to reach the light.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This led to Waiyaki questioning himself: was he bringing order and
light to darkness? I suspect every conscious leader will ask these
questions. Am I right for this task? Am I being presumptuous? Am I
leading people whom I care about in the right direction?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Waiyaki
wanted to feel at one with the whole creation,</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
his wandering and thinking, he meets Nyambura. They have a short
talk and Waiyaki invites her to see the school</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Sixteen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nyambura
did not show up. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Described
life on the ridges. How did Waiyaki earn his keep? He was paid a
little bit by the elders. He did not need much.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
soil no longer answered the call and prayers of the people. Perhaps
it had to do with the white men and the blaspheming men of Makuyu.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Earlier it said that Waiyaki was superstitious. Is this one of the
places where Waiyaki is superstitious?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
was puzzled by the prophecy. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Waiyaki
wished he had understood better.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Waiyaki was a man of dreams who worked on making them come true. He
wanted a college like Livingstones.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kabonyi
was finding ways to oppose Waiyaki.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>After
all, was he himself free from fear?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This was in relation to Nyambura standing him up. Maybe she was being
watched by Joshua.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Seventeen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
one admired in Joshua was his fidelity.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is what drove him to disown his own daughter. He was the
spiritual head of the hills. Also the chief morality enforcer without
compromise. If he did not spare his own child, who was he going to
spare?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
went to observe. His thought was </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
man knows the Bible. He always mixes his own words with quotations
from this Book of God.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This led him to wonder, is there a halfway between the two ridges?
Can there be compromise? He came away disturbed. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>As
the hymn reached his ears, he again felt that insatiable longing for
something beyond him, something that would contain the whole of
himself.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
has a vision of education uniting the people. Then he is interrupted
by Kamau and the vision is gone. An exchange about Nyambura leads to
Waiyaki being jealous. Waiyaki meets with Nyambura and they have a
conversion.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Eighteen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
was more interested in teaching than being a leader. He was popularly
known as The Teacher. But he also had a strong impression he wanted
unity between the ridges. During a meeting of parents for all the
schools, he felt a need to expand on this. But </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
was not a plan but a conviction.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kabonyi
felt resentment because of Waiyaki’s popularity. But the parent
meeting was strengthening Waiyaki’s role as leader of the people.
Kabonyi spoke against Waiyaki’s plans. But Waiyaki had a favorable
impression on the crowd, so Kabonyi did not make much headway. But
Waiyaki did not get to talk about the need for unity. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because
of his want for unity, he did not see pitfalls in things like the
Kiami wanting an oath of Purity and Togetherness.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Nineteen</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joshua
felt that he was working well, even though more of the tribe was
returning from his church to tribal ways. He was bothered by the rise
of Waiyaki. He pictured Waiyaki as a force of Satan. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
the other hand, the Christian teachings resonated with Waiyaki. But
he felt the need to be true to the tribe. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
resigned from the Kiama. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
was realizing that he thought about Nyambura more and more. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
more he thought of her the more he knew that he loved her.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In trying to get away from the Christian meeting being held on his
ridge, Waiyaki ran into Nyambura. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>She
knew, however, that she had to have a God who would give her a
fullness of life, a God who would still her restless soul.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
seems like once the sisters had Christianity, they did not want to
leave it. Christ was very much central to them. But there was
something else which said that there was more than that. She felt
that Christ alone could not save her. She wanted Waiyaki. So </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Nyambura
lived with her doubts.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
asked her to marry him. But she said no. She loves him, but cannot
marry him. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Kamau
came out of his hiding place.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He had feelings for Nyambura and hated Waiyaki even more.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
was now faced with a shortage of teachers. So he went to Siriana to
secure them. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
conflict between ridges intensified and enveloped the whole tribe.
The Teacher was now placed with the tribal side of the conflict, much
to his reluctance as he wanted unification, not conflict. But rumors
were swirling how he was moving closer to the Christian side, being a
traitor to the tribe. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty-One</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nyambura
was chafing under her father’s rule. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
was difficult for her to rebel against her father.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Joshua threatens her that if she meets with Waiyaki again, he will
disown her. He looks at punitive measures instead of understanding.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty-Two</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
was at the height of his popularity. Kinuthia greatly admired him,
but also wanted action. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>But
the Great Teacher’s vision of a highly learned people carried him
along.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he
wondered if Waiyaki knew that people wanted action now, that the new
enthusiasm and awareness embraced more than the mere desire for
learning.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Was Waiyaki’s vision blending him to the desires of the people?
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Kinuthia,
however, did not know the extent of Waiyaki’s dreams and vision.
How could he know unless he entered those regions of the heart where
doubts and fears struggled in the darkness, where you suddenly lost
sight of your hopes and success, shaken to the roots as you woke up
at night, or even as you walked along the paths in the country.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Movement
away from missionary schools towards native ones. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
Waiyaki thought about the underlying strife, he started to wonder,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>unite
for what?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Why was he uniting them? </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
a vision, he say that Nyambura was being pulled every which way. That
the only way out was death. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Death
was the end of everything. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
seems to be a refrain of Ngugi. He used it before when he was talking
about Waiyaki’s sister who died.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Question,
which force would force the other to do their will. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kiama
is summoning Waiyaki.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Waiyaki
the white man’s education was an instrument of enlightenment and
advance if only it could be used well</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty-Three</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
was no warmth in the gathering of the Kiama. Waiyaki was being
accused of tribal impurity. He tried to save Muthani, his trips to
Siriana, going to Joshua’s church once and then his relationship
with Kyambura were signs that he was not to be trusted. What Waiyaki
sees is that he wants the tribe united, not full of strife and
weakened. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kabonyi
hated Waiyaki. Ngugi noted that the lanterns of Kabonyi eyes were
dimming.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
question before the Kiama was what to do with Waiyaki? There was a
move to say he was a traitor and could not be trusted. The Kiama was
leading towards circumcising all of the Christians by force. But not
all were in agreement as this would bring retribution from the land.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty-Four</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kinuthia
says that Waiyaki is no longer a teacher according to the Kiama.
Waiyaki senses that Kinuthia is like Judas, and has turned against
him. Kinuthia says that there is a plan to burn Joshua’s place.
Waiyaki will warn Joshua. He says that Kinuthia is the only one whom
he can trust now-how does that square with what was being said just a
page or two before?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joshua
rejects his warning and blames him for Muthoni’s circumcision and
death. He was seen coming out of the church by Kamau. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
thoughts now change to Nyambura who was there at the warning. She had
loved them, but felt both her parents and her religion stood between
him and her. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
religion of love and forgiveness stood between them.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But she felt that it was not a religion of love how Joshua taught it.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
the faith of Joshua and Livingstone came to separate, why, it was not
good.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She struggled with the parts of religion which separated with the
parts which taught how God’s loves all and was going to bring all
together. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
call of the inner voice that urged her on, the call of the land
beyond Joshua’s confining hand, was too strong.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
voices outside were crying traitor. Waiyaki realized this was the
rejection which the other prophets felt. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nyambura
makes her choice to go with Waiyaki. But Waiyaki realizes his choice
is to face death while trying to save the tribe. She goes with him.
Waiyaki announces to Kinuthia that he will return to the sacred grove
and explains the revelation to him. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
was as if Waiyaki was a revelation, a thing not of this earth.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He announces he will hold a meeting. Waiyaki realizes that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Education
for an oppressed people is not all.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kinuthia
vows that he will be with Waiyaki through it all.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty-Five</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
at the sacred grove. Seems ordinary, but something mystical. I think
that in our real lives, God is in the ordinary more than the special.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
now he was wondering what had he done? Why did he awaken the hills?
What did he expect from being at the grove? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>What
had brought all this trouble? Waiyaki blamed himself. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
was concentrating on the past and the “what ifs”. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ngugi
says that the eternal faith needs to be reconciled with the ways of
the people. But how? And what about when the ways of the people are
corrupt? When I was wondering about this, one clue came from my quiet
time reading. It was in Romans 14:4. Paul says that we are not to
reprimand another's servants. We are all servants of the Most High
and that He will take care of when transgression happens. I think our
place is to live the life God leads us to live, with the recognition
that we will need to change.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>But
the religion, the faith, needed washing, cleaning away all the dirt,
leaving only the eternal.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I think what Ngugi is saying with this statement is that the faith
has been intertwined with the human elements, presenting a corrupted
version of Christianity. But we are humans, corrupt humans all. The
problem is we do not see that we are corrupt and assume our
rightness. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ngugi’s
comment on Joshua is that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
had clothed himself with a religion decorated and smeared with
everything white. He renounced his past and cut himself away from
those life-giving traditions of the tribe. And because he had nothing
to rest upon, something rich and firm on which to stand and grow, he
had to cling with his hands to whatever the missionaries taught him
promised future.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
thought about the reconciliation Muthoni had attempted for herself.
She was seeking, like Chege sought through Waiyaki the same thing. He
saw that the value of circumcision was not in the physical act, but
the union with the people. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
the white man’s religion made you abandon a custom and then did not
give you something else of equal value, you became lost.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
left the grove without answers, more wonderings. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Muranga,
Kiambu and Nyeri</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-different
tribes within Kenya.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
revelation about what was needed: Education, Unity, and Political
Freedom. The white man must Go. The Kiama was right about the need
for action. He also realized that he needed Kyambura to be with him
to accomplish this.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kyambura
was kidnapped by Kabonyi.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
was fear that Waiyaki would not show up. He does, looking strong and
determined.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
Twenty-Six</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
hour of need was upon the tribe. He spoke of the need to be united.
Kaonyi spoke how Waiyaki was a menace to the tribe, a traitor and was
bringing the white man in. In response, Waiyaki spoke of their
history and how when they were divided, the white man came in. A
house divided will fall. When the people rose to kill Kabonyi,
Waiyaki said not to. So they did not. They too were part of the
house. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kabonyi
brought Nyambura to the crowd as proof. He wanted Waiyaki to refuse
or acknowledge the connection. But he took her in his arms. The
people thought he had gone back on his oath. The people left it to
the Kiama to judge them.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
that is how the book ends. Also see below the last sentence as I
think Ngugi is trying to tell us something there.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
first read, it is a good story, one to both enjoy and travel the
paths with the characters. But it is when you read it again that you
start asking yourself, questions like what does the author mean by
the river of life? Or why didn’t the white man’s God satisfy
certain characters? What made the preacher act how he did? Do you
really understand the story has depth to what Ngugi wants us to
explore. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While
Ngugi wrote this story to show the conflict there was between the new
Christian ways and the older tribal ones, the book also raised
questions about how wide cultural gaps can be bridged? Or can they?
Ngugi leaves the gap unabridged. The main character wants to bring
unity to the tribe and is stymied by both sides. If this sounds
familiar to modern America, it is because we face similarities in our
divide. So far we do not have answers, like Ngugi’s main character
did not.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
do not know if it is because this is an African way of telling a
story or if the author did not have a good conclusion, but to me the
ending was unsatisfying. The story is left unfinished, with not even
the hero going off into the sunset with his woman. It just ends.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
place which the story does grate on the modern ear is where the
tribal way is to have all circumcised as an entrance into the tribe.
With the stand being made by modern movements against female
circumcision, i.e., female genital mutilation, there are questions
which this book asks. The most important one is if you take out the
ritual of initiation into the tribe, how can you keep the tribe
together? I think since we do not have this kind of attachment to
belonging nor ritual we do not understand how important that is.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Still
the story does offer that ultimate reconciliation can be made when a
woman on her deathbed says </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
see Jesus. And I am a woman beautiful in the tribe.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Let both happen in our world, sans death.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
words did you have trouble understanding?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who
is Ngugi writing for? Kenayians? Europeans? …</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Name
one thing which struck you about this book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Achebe
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
last five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a
body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light, and now
the time has come for Africans to tell their own stories.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Is this a good telling of a story? Does it fill Achebe’s
definition of a story?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the Introduction by Uzodinma Iweala says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
River Between</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
delivers</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
readers from a simplistic understanding of the forces of colonialism
in Africa to a complicated imagining of Africa before, during, and
after colonialism. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
you think this is what Ngugi is doing? Give examples? Do you think he
was effective or that Ngugi had a different goal?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
River Between</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ngugi
starts the book with the sleeping lions of the ridges. What is he
talking about? What makes the ridge lions? Do they ever wake up in
the book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
conflicts does Ngugi address in his story? How does he resolve
them-or why does he leave them open?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ngugi
constantly talks about the light in a person’s eyes. This was true
of Waiyaki and of Muthoni. What is Ngugi showing us by talking about
the eyes being lit?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also
whenever Waiyaki has a vision, something interrupts him and the
vision is gone. WHat do you think Ngugi is conveying to us?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ngugi
describes Waiyaki as being superstitious. How does Ngugi use that
word? In what ways does he describe Waiyaki as being superstitious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nagugi
talks about a second birth. What is it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about the imagery which the phrase </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>calabash
of trust and responsibility </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">brings
to your mind</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
does Chege feel that Christianity is a threat to the tribe? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Muthoni
says that the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>white
man’s God does not quite satisfy me.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
WHy didn’t Christianity satisfy her? What made Christianity
unsatisfying for her? How does the version of Christianity which you
live seem unsatisfying to others? To yourself?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
you think it was possible for Muthoni to be a Christian and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
a woman made beautiful in the tribe?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Also her last words were </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
see Jesus. And I am a woman beautiful in the tribe.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
If so, how? If not, why not? Is it possible to be a Christian and
fully take in your own culture? How does Ngugi reconcile the two? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Muthoni died, why did Chege fear that this would split the tribe into
warring factions? What does he fear for his son?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chege
told Waiyaki when he went to Sirana not to be corrupted by the white
man, but to learn his ways. Is education a corrupting agent? In what
ways? How? How can you not be educated without being contaminated?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
considered Livingstone, for all his learning and holiness, a little
dense in attacking a custom whose real significance in the tribe he
did not understand and probably never would understand.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What difference would it have made if Livingstone had understood the
ways of the tribe?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Livingstone
attacked the tribal customs. Why? What did he see which was evil in
these tribal customs? What was bad about it? Why was it hard for the
tribe to break from these customs? Was it a difference in culture? If
missionaries came to America from Africa, what customs would they
encounter which they would feel is counter to Christianity? How hard
would it be for us to break these customs?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An
argument between Kamau and Kinuthia is the crux of the book. The
missionaries came in peace, but what followed was other Europeans who
came to conquer. How can Christians be the funnel to bring the
Christian message as well as a Christian caring and love without
bringing their culture as well?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nyambura
and Waiyaki love each other. What is stopping them from being
married? Is this/these a valid reason?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joshua
rules his family and his flock with authority. How does this work out
for him? Why is he this way? Is there Christian teaching which
supports him? If he was more understanding, what do you think would
have happened?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
does Ngugi portray Christianity? Do you think Ngugi knows the heart
of Christianity? Why or why not?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ngugi
uses the phrase </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Death
was the end of everything.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Why does he use this phrase? What does this indicate? Is this true?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the 1920’s Christian missionaries seeing women coming in on
stretchers banned female circumcision because of the way it was done
and it not improving the person. There is a similar movement in 21st
century against Female Genital Mutilation. What have you learned
from this book which can be added to this discussion.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiyaki
works off the theory that education will bring the tribe up to level
with the Europeans. On what basis does Waiyaki make this assumption?
Do you think he is being realistic? What else was needed?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
does Ngugi end the story the way he does? Did the ending seem
fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
River Between</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
this story work as a novel?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
there anybody you would consider religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did they show it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
the book overtly religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did it affect the book's story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
central ideas does the author present?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
they personal, sociological, global, political, economic, spiritual,
medical, or scientific</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>evidence</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
does the author use to support the book's ideas?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is
the evidence convincing...definitive or...speculative?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author depend on personal opinion, observation, and assessment?
Or is the evidence factual—based on science, statistics, historical
documents, or quotations from (credible) experts?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
implications for you, our nation or the world do these ideas have?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
these idea’s controversial? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
whom and why?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
there solutions which the author presents?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
they seem workable? Practicable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
would you implement them?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is the culture described in this book different than where we live?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
economic or political situations are described?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author examine economics and politics, family traditions, the
arts, religious beliefs, language or food?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/fiction-discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Groups General Fiction Guide</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>oeuvre-the works of a painter, composer, or author regarded collectively</li><li>bildungsroman-a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education</li><li>podo-table-???</li><li>shambas- a cultivated plot of ground; a farm or plantation.</li><li>puritanism-Puritanism refers to a Calvinist movement that emphasized a personal experience of salvation by Christ; strict moral discipline and purity as the correct form of Christian life; a convenant of obedience to God, who was viewed as absolute sovereign over all; and societal reform, to convert the world to the way of Christ</li></ul><div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287041.Facing_Mount_Kenya?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=gLkhhpqZRa&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Facing
Mount Kenya</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Jomo Kenyatta</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Petals
of Blood </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wizard
of the Crow </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: Two ridges lay side by side. </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: And Honia river went on flowing between them, down through the
valley of life, its beat rising above the dark stillness, reaching
into the heart of the people of Makuyu and Kameno.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
young man who rises to leadership is always a target of jealousy for
his equals, for those older than himself and for those who think they
could have been better leaders. Chapter 13</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Education
for an oppressed people is not all. Chp 24</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
the white man’s religion made you abandon a custom and then did not
give you something else of equal value, you became lost. Chp 25</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Message
from Chinua Achebe</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Introduction</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Notes
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
One</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Three</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Four</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Five</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Six</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Seven</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Eight</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Nine</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Ten</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Eleven</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Twelve</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Thirteen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Fourteen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Fifteen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Sixteen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Seventeen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Eighteen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Nineteen</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Twenty</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Twenty-One</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Twenty-Two</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Twenty-Three</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Twenty-Four</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Twenty-Five</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
Twenty-Six</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<br />
<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316709/the-river-between-by-ngugi-wa-thiongo-introduction-by-uzodinma-iweala/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_Between"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9_wa_Thiong%27o"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/River-Between-Penguin-African-Writers/dp/0143107496"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ngugi-wa-Thiongo/author/B00462WXDK?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152642.The_River_Between?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_17"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/51936.Ng_g_wa_Thiong_o"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Asian
Social Science </span></span><a href="https://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/0/38397"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>article</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-river-between"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lit
Charts</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-good
reference</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-River-Between"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Encyclopedia
Britannica</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">YouTube</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">YouTube-</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPxMaQry4xo"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>English
Language and Literature</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">YouTube-</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdNHJKmDYlQ"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>English
Language and Literature</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-37519097988226645132023-03-12T06:58:00.072-07:002023-11-12T19:59:42.986-08:00Horse<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfS1d11Wwca96HRAEc3584x5r51TIEno0TeIhRexeXAl2H3D4HwduwolAd-4r5CV1oD2_q2Jv97wkuQhic1NRb64gCmR1CoufS-PD4Gk4KQ31yfPD5rQE2FdK3uwQACp7kHN0WizDra3T0DZPxtIhN-wFofQ909H4J9ewrrsz94zYpxh7CZvkq-uah/s400/59109077.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfS1d11Wwca96HRAEc3584x5r51TIEno0TeIhRexeXAl2H3D4HwduwolAd-4r5CV1oD2_q2Jv97wkuQhic1NRb64gCmR1CoufS-PD4Gk4KQ31yfPD5rQE2FdK3uwQACp7kHN0WizDra3T0DZPxtIhN-wFofQ909H4J9ewrrsz94zYpxh7CZvkq-uah/s320/59109077.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br /><b>Book: Horse</b><p></p><div>
<span style="font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#NewWords">New Words</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#BookReferences">Book References</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-4fe5aeb9-7fff-34ea-2c5f-8710993a825d" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Geraldine Brooks</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: Kindle</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Viking</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9780399562969 (ISBN10: 0399562966)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: March 1, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: March 12, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">401 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Fiction-History, Interracial Understanding</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: Low</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 4½ out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Tells a good story: 5 out of 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fiction-Character development: 5 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis (<span style="color: #cc0000;">Caution: Spoiler Alert</span>-Jump to <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/horse.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a>):</b><br />
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are two trains of plot, held together by a skeleton and a painting.
Neither train of thought would make a very good book, but put
together, they create something interesting.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
is you have a horse and his Black trainer. They are tremendously
attached to each other. Separate, they both suffer. Lexington, the
horse, wins championship races. The boy is treated as baggage and
goes where the horse goes. The story talks about that.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Second,
a Black art historian and an Australian lab director come together,
fall in love, but have to work through what their differences mean?
How they work through it is a painting of a horse, Lexington and a
skeleton, Lexington, help them find commonality of mission. They are
on an adventure of discovery until Theo is killed. Then the
understanding of what racism hits Jess and her understanding.</span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dr.
</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Warfield"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Elisha
Warfield</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Jarret
and Lexington’s original owner.</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barr_Clay"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Mary
Barr Clay</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Cassius
Clay’s daughter; Warfield’s granddaughter.</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.alamy.com/richard-ten-broeck-was-born-about-1810-he-left-west-point-owing-to-dissipation-insubordination-or-both-he-became-by-some-accounts-a-professional-gambler-by-others-a-chevalier-dindustrie-perhaps-also-both-in-the-1840s-he-emerged-as-an-imaginative-racecourse-manager-in-1853-he-bought-a-three-year-old-colt-called-darley-after-a-race-at-lexington-and-renamed-it-lexington-though-he-now-owned-the-best-horse-in-america-he-was-too-aggressive-to-be-popular-in-england-from-1856-he-became-james-r-keenes-racing-manager-with-more-personal-but-less-financial-success-he-returned-to-image268845696.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Richard
Ten Broeck</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-gambler,
racing promoter, horse owner </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas
J. Scott </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martha
Jackson-art dealer, collector</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo-writer,
art student going after his Phd. Black. Lived in Australia for a
while. Parents were diplomats.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clancy-Theo’s
kelpie, Australian shepherd</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alexander</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
Lewis-main person in the book. Lexington’s handler and friend.
While many other characters in the book are fictional accounts of
real life people, Jarret is not. Harry Lewis had one son, named
Lewis. But there is a reference to </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>black
Jarret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
being Lexington’s handler.</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://africanamericanhorsestories.org/research/people/harry-lewis"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Harry
Lewis</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Lexington’s
trainer. Jarret’s father</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess-Australian
who is living in Washington DC, employed by the Smithsonian to look
after bones.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lexington-race
horse and a star breeding horse</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Troye-painter,
mentioned rather than part of story</span></span></li><li>
<a href="http://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00008197"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Willa
Viley</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Colonel
Adam Bingaman-Mississpii estate, law maker</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Benjamin_Pryor"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>John
Pryor</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Bingaman’s
horse trainer. Wikipedia credits him as the trainer for Lexington</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Samuel
Gossin-overseer of Bingaman’s property. Whipped Jarrett</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">William
Johnson-freed black man, high class barber, broker of news</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gem-blacksmith.
Jarret works with him as an apprentice</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Uncle
Jack-Black preacher who taught Jarret how to read and write</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cassius
Clay-</span></span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Marcellus_Clay_(politician)"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Marcellus_Clay_(politician)</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Catherine
Morgan-the British researcher of horses</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beth-Harry’s
second wife</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">JeremyRaines-art
restorer, conservator</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jackson
Pollock-painter</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lee
Pollock-wife of Jackson Pollock and friend of Marth Jackson</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Annie-Martha
Jackson’s housekeeper. Annie is a relative of Jarret by about 5
generations</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Daniel-Theo’s
best friend</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Alexander"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Robert
Alexande</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">r-Kentucky
horse breeder. Bought Lexington and Jarret</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">May-Jarret’s
short term partner, another man’s wife</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Robbie-May’s
son.</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Recommendation: PBS Interview</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">When: July 8, 2022</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Date Became Aware of Book: July 8, 2022</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">How come do I want to read this book: Brooks writes well.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">What do I think I will get out of it? A good story, giving some insight.</span></li></ul>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Couple
of things. First Brooks likes horses, she has been around them and
enjoys them. Next a friend told me that Brooks has an adopted son who
is Black,</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Story
takes place in two era’s: 1850, pre-Civil War in the 1850 mostly,
and in 2019, with a brief aside to the 1870’s and 1950’s.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brooks
notes that things like Lexington’s skeleton being stored in the
Smithsonian attic and Scott’s painting being discarded were
true-just the location and who discovered it were different.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also
the modern portion of the book is in the Washington DC. The 1850’s
is mostly Lexington, Kentucky and New Orleans, Louisiana. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Theo</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
is a writer. Trying to get an article ready for the Smithsonian. A
neighbor who is not happy that a student, and probably because he is
a Black, is living across from them. Theo had been raised that bad
manners was a sin. His neighbor’s husband died and she was moving
out hz jis stuff. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
was always curious about what people read.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Nothing interesting in her stuff. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>And
that was when he saw the horse.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
had loved doing stuff with bones from a young age. Now she has a job
at the Smithsonian’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Osteology
Prep Lab at the Museum Support Center in Maryland.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Articulate
seems to be a favorite word of Jess/Brooks. Mounting bones required
lots of patience and skills. But done right, you could tell a lot
about the animal you mounted. Most bones now are stored away in
containers since mounting them did destroy part of the bone. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interesting,
they use beetles to do the final cleaning of the bones,</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just
when she was leaving to pick up a whale from Massuchuts, she got a
call from a fellow director. He wanted help locating a skeleton-
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“Equus
caballus. A horse</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Warfield’s
Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describes
Jarret’s way with horses. Also how horses act around humans-could
be sneaky and cause you harm or </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>a
good horse will work with you, won’t mean you ill.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret’s
father was a freed man, but worked for someone else than Jarret’s
master. His mother died when he was around five.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brooks
uses this story to trace how Jarret gets sold from owner to owner
just like Lexington, the horse.</span></span></p>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mother
of Lexington was Alice Carneal; father was Boston, a rare horse. The
breeding was Harry Lewis’ idea This proved to be a winner. Jarret
and Lexington were companions to each other. Lexington’s original
name was Darney. It gets changes later on in the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Darney
had white feet. Racing folks felt this was bad luck. But Harry said
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>My
way of thinking, a good horse has no color. It’s what’s inside
that’s worth the fret.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary
Barr Clay is introduced-precocious. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
thought </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>that
all horses were handsome and good. You just had to find the right use
for them.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Theo</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo’s
parents instilled in him that personal contact is to be prized above
more remote contacts such as memo or a phone call,</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
horse picture looked old. Maybe discovering the background could be
turned into an article.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about Theo’s upbringing and his parent’s marriage which was
falling apart. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
horse painting was temporarily forgotten as he got another
assignment.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Thomas
J. Scott</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Told
from Scott’s point of view</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talked
about Cassius Clay and how he was an abolitionist even in Kentucky.
He was a former slave owner and could fight.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Traveled
to Warfield’s place to paint some of his horses.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Warfield’s
Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
was someone who paid attention to detail. He was someone who
considered his words.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Explains
the painting of Troye of Boston, Harry Lewis and another person.
Unusual in that Blacks are not usually painted in that era. It was
painted for Willy Villa.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scott
was there to paint a picture of one of the horses. But he also
examines Darley and thinks he will make a fine horse.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scott
is interested in more than the mechanics and results of a horse, but
also the temperament and character of it as well. Scott thinks that
people who bred thoroughbreds because it is a challenge. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Can
he win against all comers? And if not, does he have self-mastery to
take a loss, stay cool in defeat, and try again undaunted? Those are
the qualities of a great racehorse and a great gentleman. …. To do
my part, I have to give a man a likeness that shows not just how
beautiful the horse looks, but how beautiful it feels to him</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scott
enters into a conversation with Jarret about running away, which
Jarret wants no part of. But in the conversation, he says that
Wakefield is considering offering Darley to Harry.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
appreciated Scott’s approach and his talent.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
is fetching her whale.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talked
with the curator of Woods Hole who noted that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We’ve
made it so noisy they can’t hear to navigate—boat engines, navy
sonar, sea mining.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plymouth
University of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Moby-Dick.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
wonder if this real.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
wonders </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
could we be so creative and so destructive at the same time?</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
is tasked with finding a skeleton in the Smithsonian for a prominent
researcher from England. She found it was in storage. It is in the
Natural History Museum, the Hall of Mammals, and then was taken to
the attic. Jess gets tasked with escorting the researcher.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Theo</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about how a black man running through a white neighborhood like
Georgetown needed to dress like he belonged. Then they ran into Rock
Creek Park from the zoo to Peirce Mill and back home.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
gets to work on an article about restoring the painting which was
being dumped.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paintings:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Str
Maris with His Groom</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Edward Troye, Kentucky 1857</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Richard
Singleton with Viley’s Harry, Charles and Lew</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Edwrd Troye</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Troye
did not mock his Black subjects but portrayed them as people. Harry
was depicted as having authority.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>well
those passions read that yet survive, stamped on these lifeless
things. The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
From Ozymandias</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Warfield’s
Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
is a “friend” of Mary Barr Clay. Jarret is Black; Clay is white.
So there can never be more than friendliness. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
foal will pick up all of its mothers habits. Darley’s mother was a
bit high stung, so Jarret did not want that to happen. Nor did Jarret
want the horse mistreated. As </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
furious horse isn’t thinking clearly, and Jarret had a powerful
idea that horses win races with their head.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Harry
had drilled Jarret about the various horses ancestories.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
meets Catherine Morgan, the British researcher</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
horse. What you have here is the greatest racing stallion in American
turf history.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Thomas
J. Scott</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From
Scott-did he really say this-in doing an online search, I do not see
it?: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
I were in purse to buy Warfield’s Jarret, I believe I would do it.
And so we who think we are above enslaving our fellow man are
corrupted. Only show us absolute agency over the apt and the willing,
and suddenly we find the planters’ obduracy that much less odious. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is because Jarret has been assisting Scott and has been doing it
better than anybody else has ever done it But I think there is truth
here. Given a chance, each of us likes to show superiority over
another.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scott
did a painting for Jarret, a quick study: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>As
sometimes happens when the stakes are small, the</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>painting
came together with an uncommon felicity.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Details
the Clay family.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Warfield’s
Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
saw things from the horse's perspective and then tried to accommodate
the horse. Soon Jarret became the chief horse breaker.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Harry
was talking to Beth and would eventually make her his wife. Harry
bought Beth’s freedom, not Jarret’s.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being
next to a horse can be calming.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clay
has a discussion about whether Jarret wants to be a free man?
Jarret’s reply is that is not allowed to have that kind of talk.
This reminds me of the next Osher book we are reading, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Forgotten</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
There were many subjects you could not safely discuss without being
sent to Siberia.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
most important thing was to keep Darley willing every stride of the
way. They would both love the work, Jarret would make sure of it.
That, thought Jarret, as he eased into sleep, is how we will win</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
is finding out about Darley/Lexington through Dr Morgan’s files.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photographer:James
Mullen-is there a copy of it?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Morgan
wants to make a replica of the horse.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Warfield’s
Jarretu</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Darley
would race for the first time. It was a big deal for the area. Even
Richard Ten Broeck from New Oreleans was there. He is up in Kentucky
to find some horses.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck interrogates Jarret about Darley.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
comes across Theo and practically accuses him of stealing her bike.
They both have the same bike and color. He was at first angry. But
then it seemed to bridge that anger and accusation. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Later,
she would remember that first kindness—the disciplined way he’d
made the anger.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Morgan
talks about how she came to love horses, playing polo. As she got
into the horse racing world, she saw the evils which made the
competition. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pump
the poor things full of bute to get them on the track when they’re
hurt and should be resting. So many trainers asking me to fix the
horse up for just one more race.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
So now she goes around trying to figure out how healthy racing horse
work.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is
the poem she recites a real one, or one which Brooks makes up?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
wonder how the painter got the horse to stand so still for so long to
have him painted in such a sway? Jarret is the answer, of course.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Thomas
J. Scott</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scott
cannot get to the task of painting Darley. He was present when Ten
Broeck and Villey forced the sale of Darley to them. Speaking of Ten
Broeck, Scott thought that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he’s
learned to deploy the manners of the south without falling into
parody.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
Scott’s mind, it is hard to read Ten Broek because of who he is. He
made a fortune playing cards, has adopted the manners of the SOuth
and had become renowed. He left West Point undder a cloud. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
short, he’s a man well used to getting what he wants.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
he wanted Darley, so he blackmailed Warfield into selling him the
horse, and Jarret.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Warfield’s
Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary
Barr warns Jarret about the sale of the horse. Harry has been around
long enough that he knows the ways of the South and the swindle does
not come as a surprise to him. Harry says to Jarret: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Son,
they take what they want.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And is that only with the Old South?Isn’t that true of all of the
powerful? That left Jarret to think that</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Only horses were honest, in the end.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
now thinks about running away. The river is not that far, he
thinks-it is 80 miles. Mary Barr helps him escape.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Mary
Barr Clay</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cassius
Clay talks to his daughter and discovers that Jarret has run away. He
also realizes that he will die, either in Kentucky or Ohio with that
horse.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brooks
paints Clay as someone who you would feel naturally antagonistic too.
But then there is this episode where Clay is very methodical and
thinks through a problem, exhibiting compassion for Jarret.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brooks
also talks a bit about the way of the strong and week, how it plays
out in nature. Wasn’t this God’s order? I think in God’s order,
the strong would take of the weak.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Who
is Dea Webster?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck also is looking for Jarret. Clay and him come to an agreement
that Ten Broeck would buy Jaret and train him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Theo</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
is working on his essay project of the painting and is learning how
restoration is done. Brooks takes us through how an expert evaluates
a painting. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
painting says Lexington.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
happens into Raines office about the same time Theo is in there.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each
wonder if the orher is hitting on each other.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ten
Broeck’s Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck is now on the way to New Oreleans. But will be dropping
Darley/Lexington and Jarret off at Bingaman’s estate.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary
Barr says goodbye to Jarrett. Says they will meet at an All States
race put on by Ten Broeck.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brooks
has a way of showing how a Black thinks about white apologies. She
notes that the whites feel guilty and want the blacks to absolve them
of the hurt. This is despite the fact that it was the Black who was
hurt.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Darley
is renamed to Lexington to commemorate the state he came from.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
landed at Natchez. Jarret was apprehensive on several counts. First,
he was not a city person. Second, this was a new place. Lexington
recognized this fear. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
horse sensed his fear and tossed his head. Jarret struggled to master
himself, breathing deep despite the stink. He leaned into the horse
and spoke to him with a reassurance he did not feel.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Interesting how animals will mirror what we feel. Also, how a person
can adjust their own anxiety to match their situation.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Johnson
describes Pryor as someone who does things by himself, without hello
and does not take kindly to working with someone. But is an able
horse trainer.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once
Jarret gets to Bingaman’s place, Pryor turns him over to Gossin to
be treated as a slave in the fields. Gossin looks at his hands and
sends him to the blacksmith. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Because
it had been his whole life, Jarret had never realized what it meant
to be skilled at something that was highly valued. Now, he was merely
a pair of hands,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Going from being a valued person to a machine cog.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spring
came and it was time to pick cotton. Everybody did this. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
He had never known life could be so bitter.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The only respite was Sunday as being a day of rest. At Bingaham’s
place there was a Black church with a Black preacher. The sermon was
not sterile and he preached out of Job. This seemed to be very much
in tune with his current experience. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Maybe
this season was his shedding. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Turning
from a boy to a man.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
and Theo meet at a restaurant. Theo brings Clancey and Jess falls in
love with Clancey. Conversation turns to why Theo stopped playing
polo. Racism. Theo’s father said to him </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“You
have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By
thinking you’re lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean
on that. Learn to use it, and you’ll get the upper hand.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
his relationship with Jess, he did not feel the need to enlighten her
about racism, nor any white person. On the other hand, there was a
certain fascination about the bone lady. This did beg the obvious
question of if Blacks do not feel the need to enlighten those who
they feel slighted by, how the divide between races be closed?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ten
Broeck’s Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lexington
has colic-ate a whole bag of corn. Jarret is called to see if he can
do something for the dying horse. He nursed the horse back.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
reflected that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
There was a power in knowing how to read and write, he’d always
felt so,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
So he set out learning how to read and write from Uncle Jack who also
was the preacher. He reads to Jarret Isaiah 27 which talks about how
a horse is. This resonates with Jarret.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck sent for Jarret and Lexington to go to New Orleans. There will
be a race. But Lexington was not ready to race. On his way there, he
was stopped. Jarret realized that these men were </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Men
with no one to look down upon except the enslaved. Men with nothing
to lose. Men to fear.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Isn’t that how most humans are? There is a need to look down on
someone else. Help me not to be that way and to elevate all and see
your image in all. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being
stopped angered him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Theo</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Discussion
of Scott’s painting of Lexington-eyes, ears alert-see Thomas J.
Scott, </span></span><a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/portrait-lexington-22093"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Portrait
of Lexington</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Came from Martha Jackson. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Memories
of when his father died and how aloof his mother seemed. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
realized then that her work had always come first and always would.
Ahead of her marriage, ahead of her child.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
and Theo become a pair.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Martha
Jackson</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martha
Jackson is observing Jackson Pollock create. She is friends with the
Pollocks. But this is a side story. The real story is how did Martha
Jackson get Scott’s painting?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Watching
Pollock paint was like watching </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>improvisation
within structure.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martha
wanted to be a painter, but did not have the talent. But her teacher
noted that she had a critic's eye and that this is a gift-to know
what is good.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mentions
</span></span><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2022/02/putting-it-together-how-stephen.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Seurat</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-we
did a book about one of his paintings-Sunday in the Park with George.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ten
Broeck’s Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
is on the way to New Orleans. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
gets to New Orleans and meets up with Ten Broeck. Ten Broeck wants to
race Lexington, but Jarret stands up to him and states why that would
be unwise. Ten Broeck takes note, but explains why. This seems very
much unlike a Southerner. But then again, Ten Broeck was raised in
the North. Ten Broeck also has him eat the same food as himself.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
they reach Metairie, Ten Brock calls him his deputy trainer and that
the jockey is to follow every word Jarret says. But there were
several “my’s”. Jarret thinks: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>My
horse. My Jarret. New grandstands, new barns—did the man just buy
up everything he wanted in this world.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
That is Ten Broeck’s weakness-he wants to own and control
everything while still being magnanimous.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
race. Jarret’s instruction to the jockey is that the horse wants to
win, just let him. And Lexington wins. The other horse, having been
pushed too hard, dies that night.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Martha
Jackson</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martha
had a housekeeper, Annie. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Because
Martha Jackson moved in the penurious circles of the art world, she
was more aware of the bite of poverty than most wealthy people.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Annie is helping her brother go to medical school. Annie is willing
to sell an old family painting to help her brother. Martha says she
will take a look at it.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ten
Broeck’s Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck won big. Scott gives Jarret his winnings which are substantial
and he starts to settle into life as Ten Broeck’s slave. But is
more dedicated to Lexington. He attempts a letter to Mary Bar Clay to
see how his father is doing. She responds that his father died
recently of a fever.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Martha
Jackson</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about Martha’s mother and her love for horses and equestrian
sports. She died while riding with Martha. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Thomas
J. Scott</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scott
painted Lexington and how he painted him pleased Jarret. This
mattered to Scott to his surprise.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scott
is attracted to Julien, a fellow painter. While Julien was a superior
painter, Scott could paint and bring to life a horse in words.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ten
Broeck’s Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Captain
Viley was in New Orleans, part owner of Lexington. Viley would
oversee the training with Jarret still handling Lexington day to day.
Viley had a scheme where he would have four fast horses race a mile
each with Lexington doing the full four miles. Preparation for the
big race was getting serious.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
and Jess are showing each other the things they enjoy. Jess realizes
that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Art, to him</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Theo]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
was a way of responding to and shaping social change.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She becomes aware that there are things she does not see, mostly
because we are conditioned not to see them? Such as a Black servant
in a painting. Example is </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(Manet)"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Manet’s
</u></span></span></span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(Manet)"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Olympia</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shower
scene. And an undressing scene. Stayed overnight</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
is Theo into art and not diplomacy like his parents? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“Who
knows why we do what we do?”</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interesting
phrase: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>‘</i></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>ways
of seeing</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>’
- </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">John
Berger. [My book group Jessie used this in a class once. It is a book
with lots of pictures which explores what do we notice.]</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
Jess is unpacking Lexington, she notices that the eye socket is
mal-formed.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ten
Broeck’s Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Day
of the big race, the </span></span><a href="https://vault.si.com/vault/1972/03/13/new-orleans-great-post-stakes"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Great
States Post Stakes</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Lists the four enteraints from four different states. Three races of
four miles each. Best two of three wins. Lexington won the first and
second heats.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note
that an investment in a slave jockey is not wise. If the jockey is
thrown and injured, you now have upkeep of the person until they
died.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary
Barr Clay came and visited him in his loft. She is concerned for
Jarret. They talk the next day. She makes a statement which sounds
very much like today’s politics: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>no
man will listen to another’s position.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Sounds like the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>great-souled
men</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
have left politics, both then and now.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
puts the proposition to him: to come back to Kentucky with her and
leave Lexington. Jarret is committed to Lexington.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck committed to racing Lexington on short notice. Jarret is set
to protest, but Willa is already doing that. Lexington was not ready
and lost.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Thomas
J. Scott</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wrote
a dispatch on the race. The jockey was fired.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the meantime, Ten Broeck was trying for a rematch. But the owner said
no. So Lexington would race against the clock. But first, they were
sent to New York to train and be out of the spotlight. Jarret came
back a changed man.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Theo</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
is invited to Tuolumne Meadows to go hiking. He is conflicted about
what he thought of Jess.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ten
Broeck’s Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
new jockey-Gil Patrick. The jockey figures out that Lexington is
going blind.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
and Catherine are discussing the deformity of Lexington’s eyeball
socket. Jess was beginning to get obsessed with knowing about this
horse.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Catherine
comes home with Jess for dinner. Catherine knew who Theo was-a polo
star at Oxford. As they discuss horse paintings, Catherine notes that
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Everything in England comes down to class. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
does not think it would happen here in America, but Theo brings up
examples where similar things happen under different names.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Catherine
has offended Theo, without meaning to and says: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“I
do hope I didn’t say anything wrong.” She gazed at the wine for a
moment and sighed. “Hard to say the right thing, these days.”</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ten
Broeck’s Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Day
of the race against time. A different set up-running start and there
would be pace horses. Jarret is concerned that the track is too hard.
Lexington beats the old record by 7 seconds.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lexington’s
shoes were loose. The jockey said that not only was Lexington the
fastest horse in the world, but also the bravest.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
refused to tell Ten Broeck that his horse was going blind. What
Jarret wanted was for Lexington to go out as a winner and be able to
retire to stud other horses. Not what Ten Broeck might do.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So
the race was on. Lexington won convincingly.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Theo</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
California trip got canceled-wildfires. He longed to reconnect with
friends and this stood in the way. His thesis advisor did not like
his work.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
started looking at what Scott painted. Scott’s best painting was in
the catalog as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Has
not been found.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Ten
Broeck’s Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck is ticked that Jarret has been hiding Lexington’s blindness.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck is going to England. He has sold both Jarret and Lexington to
Robert Alexander</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Catherine
confirms that Lexington was blind. Also fills in the history,
including that after going to England, Ten Broeck </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Died
alone and penniless in a bungalow in California.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
Lexington had a good life afterwards.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Alexander’s
Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Discusses
Kentucky’s place in the division of states.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>You
choose a side, you also chose an enemy. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">True
then and true now.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
had been on Alexander’s farm six years. During that time Alexander,
a British subject, learned that Jarret could read. Through that time,
he got increased responsibilities until he answered only to the farm
manager and Alexander-because he could read.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
still had a relationship with Lexington. Blindness had saved
Lexington from the ailments of an old race horse. He was used as a
breeding horse. Seven of the ten of his first year off-spring won.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interesting
passage between Jarret and Scott. If war breaks out, Scott will
enlist on the North side. But in Jarret’s mind, he still likes to
take Southern money. Jarret sees this as hypocrisy. Is it?What
compromises do we need to make to live in a society?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
was now living with another man’s wife and her son. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Martha
Jackson</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about her past. Annie brings a painting-it is Scott’s painting of
Lexington which he had given to Jarret.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Thomas
J. Scott</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scott
writes to Julien. It is 1863 and Scott is in the army But he has seen
war and is disgusted with the fighting. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
They say we are winning this war. They say it, and yet that word does
not carry the same meaning to me as it once did.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
have observed that there is nothing a man is more pleased to do than
speak of his own life,</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scott
is put in charge of a field hospital because of his background in
veterinary. He talks about the brutality of the war and how he became
friends with the chaplain.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Martha
Jackson</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Referenced
Paul Mellon and Andrew Mellow giving his art to the National Gallery
[of Art]. We sat by a fountain as a tribute for his gift to the
National Gallery. Evidently he also gave or was a major contributor
to the National Gallery.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
showed the picture to Paul Mellon who was definitely interested in
it. But Martha was also interested in it as well</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mellon
did not get back with her. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>She
never expected that blowing up a millionaire client would be so very
gratifying.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
I snickered at this one.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Alexander’s
Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Robert,
May’s husband, had returned. This time in the uniform of a Union
soldier. She went with him. He gave her Scott’s last picture of
Lexington.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Martha
Jackson</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
sold her car for two of Pollock’s paintings so she could pay Annie
$1,000 for the Scott. When Jackson died, her modern art was
bequeathed to the Smithsonian, including one painting which included
Lexington.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Alexander’s
Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scott
returns, looking really beaten up. Scott says that Jarret bred
Grant’s horse </span></span><a href="https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/ulysses-s-grants-cincinnati/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Cincinnati</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
We saw the monument to Grant with Cincinnati. While there, Scott
painted Lexington and Jarret. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
was offered by Scott to join the Union army and be emancipated. He
refused since he felt it would trade one means of slavery for
another. He was bothered by it.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
caused Scott to wonder why did he re-enlist? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
He was more useful in the army than he had ever been in his life—more
useful than he ever likely would be again.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The work he did allowed men to live instead of die. He worked with
both Union soldiers and the prisoners. He used to talk with the
prisoners but now </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>he
had stopped seeking such dialogue. They were, all of them, lost to a
narrative untethered to anything he recognized as true.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Is there a time when you should stop dialoguing with someone? What
criteria?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rebel
renegades were at the Alexander farm stealing horses. The </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Quantrill"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Quantrill</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
gang. </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantrill%27s_Raiders"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>This
gang</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
included Jesse and Frank James. Wikipedia does not have them in
Kentucky, but in Missouri and Kansas, mostly with Texas as their
Winter place. But evidently they were very ruthless. Brook’s notes
there is documentation that this raid did happen.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
gang had captured and abused Willa Viley. Also his men were raping
the women. They took Alexander and Scott as well. Burnt Alexander’s
property.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Theo</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
is going to give back the painting to the widow. It is worth $15,000.
Jess noted that she is a bigot. But Theo says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“Whatever
she might be, it doesn’t mean that I won’t do what I know to be
right.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
That is something to be said. What the other person is does not make
me a different person. It is only by turning into that other person
do I change. Do I really want to be the other person?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
goes out for a run. He finds a woman laying in a ravine. No cell
signal. The police finds him leaning over the woman.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Alexander’s
Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
and Lexington stalk the gang. They dumped Viley Jarret gets him to
safely. Then Viley lets him know that he regrets his part in getting
Warfield to sell the horse. Like Theo, Jarret’s anger rises, and
then he controls it.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
rescues Scott and the horses. Then flees north.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
is late coming back from his run. Both Jess and Theo loved to chase
small fragments of knowledge. She phones him and gets a strange voice
which wants to know her relationship with Theo. She is questioned
about his family and his movements. She is to identify the body.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Alexander’s
Jarret</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Killing
was new to Jarret. It is one thing to read and think about it
intellectually. But to commit the act is a different thing.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
brought the horses to Alexander’s farm in the North. Jarret went on
to Canada as Alexander’s agent, to buy and sell thoroughbreds as
his trusted agent.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
went to the morgue, a place of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
shimmering glass walls enclosed a palace of sadness.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This phrase just struck me. She would not be allowed to see Theo,
only a picture.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
she did get to pick up Clancy, Theo’s dog.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
she returned to Theo’s apartment, a newspaper report was there.
The reporter fills in what happened to Theo and what the police are
saying. The reporter will be writing up a profile on Theo. It hit
Jess then the</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
bleak thought: everything she knew about Theo was, now, all she would
ever know.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jarret
Lewis</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
years after the Civil War, Jarret goes to New York to go to the
offices of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Turf,
Field and Farm.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lexington
had died and it had run his obituary. Jarret was with Lexington at
the end as well as at the beginning. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
has made Canada his home and will not be visiting the United States
again. The reason-there is difficulty in Blacks in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
thoroughbred world. You must know that for some who supported the
Southern cause, the war is not over. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Blacks have accidents where white jockeys cause them to fall. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
sport that once gathered all classes and, yes, colors, will not
thrive long if it continues to spit on the talent that built it.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Jarret had come to see Scott’s painting of Lexington and himself.
And to buy it.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
married in Canada and has a child. He can vote there. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
hoped she looked at it from time to time and thought of him kindly,
as he thought of her. Now that he knew what it was to be truly loved,
he had no regrets there.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jess</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
is leaving the country and taking Clancy with him. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
attended a rally, leaving with the hope of holding police
accountable. But there was not. There was hate on social accounts
towards Theo. Hope left her. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Daniel,
Theo’s friend, noted that Theo did not know how to live as a Black
in a White country.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lexington
was now getting popular. A museum in Kentucky wanted it on permanent
loan. There she met a collector who wanted to hire her for his
collection in Australia. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Lexington’s
Historical Connections</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is an important part of the book</span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Horse</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
is the best book I have read in a year and probably in years.
Geraldine Brooks has created a story which is compelling and an
enjoyable use of words.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
have two bones to pick, and they are my personal hang ups. First, I
do not like fictional works about real people. There are too many
ways to color their characters to give impressions which may or may
not be true, under the guise of fiction. Brooks use is of characters,
people whom I have not heard of before and probably will not hear
from again seems to keep their basic character without coloring them
too much. Second, books which jump back and forth between the past
and current. Once again, I think Brooks was able to do this
effectively, adding to the story line, without the contriveness or
jerkiness you sometimes get from books which employ this technique.
As the book progressed I was actually looking forward to these jumps.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
enjoyed Brooks storytelling. How she wove the stories of a horse and
a painting to tell something about our past and our present.
Lexington was a horse of the 1850’s to 1870’s, both racing and
studding. She talks about the treatment of racehorses in that day and
in this day. How they would sustain injury, but they were cared for
and given due rest. While today, they are raced until they are worn
out.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then there are matters of race. She goes through the obvious
drawbacks of slavery. But for the most part her protagonist’s life
is protected from many of the horrors of Southern slavery. But still
he is not his own person until he moves to Canada. The chapter titles
say it all: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Warfield’s
Jarret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ten
Broeck’s Jarret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Alexander’s
Jarret.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Is only the last where he is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Jarret
Lewis.</i></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
there is a tie in with today. The current day male Black, Theo</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">is
shot and killed. But throughout the book, there is the tension where
whites keep stepping on his toes, without knowing or meaning to. You
wonder </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>is
that the writer being over-sensitive</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?
Or is it that we do not see enough of each other to understand what
causes pain?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
thing I think is a weakness is the part which “coincidence” plays
in this book. A woman is instructed to find a horse skeleton; a man
finds a painting of the same horse. Another woman happened to be at
Oxford and enjoyed polo meets the star of the Oxford team. While
Brooks does not make a point of it, without many of the crucial
events coming together, this is a story which would fall apart.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is a book worth reading on several layers. Just the pure joy of
reading something good. But second, allow yourself to better
understand those around you and how we are not just what we seem
today, but where we have come from.</span></span></p>
<br />
<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
my book group discussed this book, it was evident that people were
comfortable with how Brooks treated Jarret as a slave. But how Theo
and Jess were portrayed and their reactions to perceived racism was a
different matter. Some felt Brooks was forcing an edge to how Theo
felt. Others were comfortable. Having Theo killed seemed over the top
for most of this group, a bit of pandering to today’s climate.</span></span></p>
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<br />
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
did you like/dislike about the book?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
words seemed strange or unknown to you? Why do you think she used
these words?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
themes do you see running through this book?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think Brooks wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
part does coincidence play in this book? </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
character stood out the most for you?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you have when you read this book?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
Richard Ten Broeck? How would you describe his moral character? What
was the overriding desire of his life?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was Jarret’s identity? How would you describe him? What is his
focus in life? How did being </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Warfield’s
Jarret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ten
Broeck’s Jarret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Alexander’s
Jarret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
shape him? Why doesn’t Jarret escape when the opportunity presents
itself on more than one occasion?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is
there friendship between Jarret and Scott? Does Jarret trust him?
What gets in the way of their relationship? How does Scott step over
boundaries? Is this the same wedge between Jarret and Mary Barr Clay?
If so, why does Brooks repeat this? </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Later
on Scott says that if war breaks out, he would join the North and
fight. Jarret thinks he still takes Southern slave money. How do you
think Scott reconciled his job in the south with his beliefs? How do
you reconcile your beliefs with the reality of living in a society
which does not share that belief?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brooks
makes the comment that Ten Broeck died penniless in California {San
Mateo to be precise.) This is after winning $200,000 in England. What
characteristics of Ten Broeck do you think led to his demise? </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
does Brooks, through Theo, show the concerns which Black people have
in our society? What did Theo take seriously? What did he not? </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is an edginess to Jess and Theo’s relationship. What causes this
edginess? What does Jess not understand? Do you think Theo is being
too sensitive? Is this a similar concern which Jarret has with Scott?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Catherine
and Theo discuss how different classes of people are treated.
Catherine does not see the kind of differentiation she sees in
England. Does America have classes-economic or social? Do you think
race is more important than class in determining how a person is
treated? Or vica versas?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
I first read the book, I thought it was pandering to our current
environment. But when I was talking about this book with someone
else, she brought up that Brooks has an adopted Black son. Which
raises the question, when we read a book, does an author's own
narrative make a difference in how we read a book? </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brooks
talks about the sport of horse racing, both past and present. What
concerns are expressed about each era? </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
did you learn through this book?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Horse</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? Predictable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
there anybody you would consider religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did they show it?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
the book overtly religious?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did it affect the book's story?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is the culture described in this book different than where we live?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
economic or political situations are described?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.readinggroupguides.com/fiction-discussion-questions"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Groups General Fiction Guide</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535715/horse-by-geraldine-brooks/9780399562969/readers-guide/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reading
Guide from Penguin Books</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Questions
and Topics for Discussion</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.
On page 28 (Theo, Georgetown, Washington, DC, 2019), Theo reflects
that depictions of horses are among the oldest art humans created.
The book’s epigraphs reflect on the significance of Lexington—in
his day, an even bigger celebrity than Seabiscuit or Secretariat.
Discuss the enduring human fascination with horses—do they move you
more than other animals, and if so, why?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2.
Theo and Jess are both obsessed with their rarefied fields of
expertise. Does the author manage to convey why these unusual careers
can be so compelling? If so, how?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3.
Jarret’s connection with horses is presented as stronger than his
bonds with people. How does his love for and dedication to Lexington
help or hamper his coming of age and his transformation over the
course of the novel?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4.
Horseracing in the mid-nineteenth century was very different to its
modern iteration. What surprised you? Do you think horseracing today
takes adequate care for the wellbeing of equines?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5.
On p. 71 (Thomas J. Scott, The Meadows, Lexington, Kentucky, 1852),
Scott writes, “[We] who think we are above enslaving our fellow man
are corrupted. Only show us absolute agency over the apt and the
willing, and suddenly we find the planters’ obduracy that much less
odious. I must guard against the rank seductions of this place.”
How does the author draw out the similarities and differences between
Northern and Southern attitudes in this era through Thomas J. Scott,
a practiced observer who moves between the regions?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6.
Several historical figures appear in the novel, among them the
emancipationist newspaper publisher Cassius Clay and his daughter,
the suffragist Mary Barr Clay. What are Cassius Clay’s arguments
for emancipation to the Warfield family? Do you see the roots of what
would become Mary Barr Clay’s passion for the women’s suffrage
movement in the way she is portrayed in her youth? What are their
respective strengths and limitations? How do novels make historical
figures come alive for us beyond what we might find in a work of
nonfiction?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7.
Martha Jackson was a real American gallery owner and art collector.
Discuss her portrayal in Horse and what her relationship to the
painting of Lexington conveys about her character. What does her
storyline contribute to the novel’s themes? What did her chapters
reveal to you about America in that era, and did you notice any
similarities between the art world of the mid-20th century and the
horseracing economy of a century prior?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">8.
Referring to the Civil War on p. 87 (Jess, Smithsonian Museum of
Natural History, Washington, DC, 2019), Jess says, “Not my war […]
Unless you call Australia the very Deep South.” Theo is also not
American. Nevertheless, they’re both forced to reckon with the
legacy of slavery—particularly Theo, who encounters racism in his
daily life. How does this affect their relationship? What does the
novel reveal about the way history shapes our present moment?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9.
Discuss Theo and Jess’s relationship. What do you think attracts
them to one another despite their differences? What do they learn
from each other?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">10.
Examine Jess’s conversation with Daniel in the aftermath of what
happens to Theo at the end of the novel. What did you make of
Daniel’s assessment of the situation? Do you share his point of
view?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ziggurat-a
rectangular stepped tower, sometimes<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=APwXEdf8dM48ndDV8c5oQV4AD336-Xv6BA:1681681013147&q=surmounted&si=AMnBZoFY6cJe4EcBOpcoqxHCe-IfO046zJtJdUsUXINOly09i9pAIlvec5JQZFa1GeM1PlgdJJEjG4mreQis0Ar7nCu6ezt8yA%3D%3D&expnd=1">
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by a temple. Ziggurats are first<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=APwXEdf8dM48ndDV8c5oQV4AD336-Xv6BA:1681681013147&q=attested&si=AMnBZoFm76bvId4K9j6r5bU9rVYrBlmd5CEm50g6HVS81SB-6Msnt6LkFmjnrYTVmp57_41cPbffJSZUU7tiWYb58AH0UZZMIg%3D%3D&expnd=1">
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story of the Tower of Babel</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kelpie-an
Australian sheepdog capable of mustering and droving with little or
no guidance</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Macerating-soften
or become<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=APwXEdfuej3s_XCRfSI1e6LzZbPPCUpKfw:1681681093164&q=softened&si=AMnBZoFm76bvId4K9j6r5bU9rVYrTrnnb2LGR8S4QV4jWON-7Lm3p2gLYSoIHLZguvWnKVR2VxABRYUQEbqqhkrSa-bOOIjAnw%3D%3D&expnd=1">
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in a liquid</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marse-Alternative
form of master, often used as a general title of respect. quotations </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Croup-inhorse
anatomy, the croup refers specifically to the topline of the horse's
hindquarters and surrounding musculature, beginning at the hip,
extending proximate to the sacral vertebrae and stopping at the dock
of the tail (where the coccygeal vertebrae begin)</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pliability-the
quality of being easily bent; flexibility</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">blood
bay-color</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Surcingle-a
strap made of leather or leather-like synthetic materials such as
nylon or neoprene, sometimes with elastic, that fastens around the
horse's girth</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">syllabub-
a sweet dish made by curdling sweet cream or milk with an acid such
as wine or cider.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cyanotype-a
170 year old photographic printing process that produces prints in a
distinctive dark greenish-blue</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">hessian
sacking- used to ship wool, tobacco, and cotton, as well as
foodstuffs such as coffee, flour, vegetables, and grains ...</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Canter-a
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chamfered-cut
away (a right-angled edge or corner) to make a symmetrical sloping
edge</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ague-</span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=APwXEddM0KOqQdGdYO8IPlpn0MbQ-BwYCg:1681703164565&q=malaria&si=AMnBZoFHF1DJLZWpTBtQDK262RMpzEM9LJBci0q6X3WUDPjOLKYFYJbk2y-JqumaLirh0PFxASuGSV4N4EI-Lw5ZdNUKrUl83w%3D%3D&expnd=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>malaria</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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</a></span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=APwXEddM0KOqQdGdYO8IPlpn0MbQ-BwYCg:1681703164565&q=shivering&si=AMnBZoFEI0LGJdD1jElhAGFwRnmogdFiX6vh7LYA4igL6auCq7jARVptceOwfEPUKzLcCIJIa4RVndfFEPBx5wRv1-pmC_Xu-Q%3D%3D&expnd=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>shivering</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carapace-the
hard upper shell of a turtle</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spavined-old
and decrepit</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">quadroons-a
person who is one-quarter Black by<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=APwXEde6F7yxSe63q-TyKu1xTct_zp15oA:1681703726802&q=descent&si=AMnBZoFHF1DJLZWpTBtQDK262RMpP_nMVUjyUWdjrAvYyNFWbCd047euGOdEGoC0LQDS0Q-kXHRWaOsah_V_SFce0o1wLh4z9Q%3D%3D&expnd=1">
</a></span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=APwXEde6F7yxSe63q-TyKu1xTct_zp15oA:1681703726802&q=descent&si=AMnBZoFHF1DJLZWpTBtQDK262RMpP_nMVUjyUWdjrAvYyNFWbCd047euGOdEGoC0LQDS0Q-kXHRWaOsah_V_SFce0o1wLh4z9Q%3D%3D&expnd=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>descent</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Octoroons-a
person who is one-eighth Black by descent</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">po-co-a
little; somewhat.???</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Manumission-release
from slavery.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Secesh-of
or relating to U.S. secessionists or secessionism</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">addlepated-being
mixed up : confused, eccentric</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quidded-past
tense of A piece, as of tobacco, to be chewed. In this case, it is
chewed hay.</span></span></li></ul><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b></div><div><b id="BookReferences"> </b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
Troye Legacy: Animal Painter </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
Genevieve Baird Lacer</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Great Black Jockeys</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Edward Hotaling</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Race
Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Katherine C. Mooney</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bound
in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
Tera W. Hunter</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Horse
of a Different Color</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Jim Squires</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Spying
on the South</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Frederick Law Olmsted</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Man from Snowy River</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by A.B. Paterson</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ozymandias</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Percy Bysshe Shelly,</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Banksy:
You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Patrick Potter</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: The deceptively reductive forms of the artist’s work belie
the density of meaning forged by a bifurcated existence.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: All around him, a herd of tiny Dawn Horses gamboled at his
feet.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You
never get a second chance to have a first impression. Chp Theo</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
was a power in knowing how to read and write. Chp Ten Broeck’s
Jarret</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You
choose a side, you also chose an enemy. Chp Alexander’s Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
have observed that there is nothing a man is more pleased to do than
speak of his own life, Chp Thomas J Scott</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Contents
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cover
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also
by Geraldine Brooks </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Title
Page </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copyright
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dedication
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Epigraph
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Warfield’s
Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas
J. Scott </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Warfield’s
Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Warfield’s
Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas
J. Scott </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Warfield’s
Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Warfield’s
Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas
J. Scott </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Warfield’s
Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary
Barr Clay </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck’s Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck’s Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martha
Jackson </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck’s Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martha
Jackson </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck’s Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martha
Jackson </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas
J. Scott </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck’s Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck’s Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas
J. Scott </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck’s Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck’s Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ten
Broeck’s Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alexander’s
Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martha
Jackson </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas
J. Scott </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martha
Jackson </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alexander’s
Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Martha
Jackson </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alexander’s
Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theo
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alexander’s
Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alexander’s
Jarret </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jarret
Lewis </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jess
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Afterword
</span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lexington’s
Historical Connections</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<br />
<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535715/horse-by-geraldine-brooks/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://geraldinebrooks.com/horse/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Brooks_(writer)">Author</a></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Horse-Novel-Geraldine-Brooks/dp/0399562966"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Geraldine-Brooks/author/B000APM13Y?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/horse-geraldine-brooks/1140163161"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59109077-horse?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=yApAW5kqK2&rank=5"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/211268.Geraldine_Brooks"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">New
York Times </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/books/review-horse-geraldine-brooks.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/bookreview/horse-a-novel"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Washington
Independent Review of Boo</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ks</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Washington
Post </span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/06/17/horse-geraldine-brooks/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not
a review, but relevant to what Jess’ work was. Jan 24, 2014
article: </span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/smithsonian-lab-learns-about-animals-through-their-bones/2014/01/23/407559f0-797e-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Smithsonian
lab learns about animals through their bones</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Atlantic
</span></span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/geraldine-brooks-horse-book-review/638449/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Guardian’s </span></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/10/horse-by-geraldine-brooks-review-a-confident-novel-of-racing-and-race"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">PBS
</span></span><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/author-geraldine-brooks-delves-into-an-untold-story-of-a-racehorse-and-his-caretaker"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/geraldine-brooks/horse.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Fantastic
Fiction</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/geraldine-brooks/horse-brooks/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Kirkus
Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780399562969"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Publishers
Weekly</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">YouTube-</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYY2l_TlFME"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>National
Book Festival</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thoughts
From A Page </span></span><a href="https://www.thoughtsfromapage.com/interview-with-geraldine-brooks-horse/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>blog</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Smithsonian
-</span></span><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/lexington-one-of-the-greatest-race-horses-of-all-time-comes-roaring-back-to-life-180980132/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>The
Lost Story of Lexington, the Record-Breaking</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/autumn13/dallow-on-edward-troye-s-equine-paintings"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Nineteenth
Century Art Worldwide</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
article by Jessica Darrow - </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Antebellum
Sports Illustrated: Representing African Americans in Edward Troye’s
Equine Paintings</i></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/dayton-literary-awards-geraldine-brooks-george-floyd-e0eda13d15cca41291c821b6d7e3628f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">APNews</a>-Geraldine Brooks’ ‘Horse’ and biography of George Floyd win Dayton literary award<i>s <br /></i></span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.virginialiving.com/culture/bookmarks-inkblots/horse-by-geraldine-brooks/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Virginia
Living</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://africanamericanhorsestories.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Chronicle of African Americans in the Horse Industry</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a40656831/geraldine-brooks-horse-book-review/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Oprah</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">WAMC
- </span></span><a href="https://www.wamc.org/show/the-book-show/2022-07-05/geraldine-brooks-horse"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Book Show</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Smithsonian’s
</span></span><a href="https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/msc-opl"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Osteo
Prep Lab Structure</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Smithsonian-</span></span><a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/portrait-lexington-22093"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Portrait
of Lexington</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Smithsonian
June 8, 2022 article-</span></span><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/lexington-one-of-the-greatest-race-horses-of-all-time-comes-roaring-back-to-life-180980132/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>The
Lost Story of Lexington, the Record-Breaking Thoroughbred, Races Back
to Life</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paintings:</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thomas
J. Scott, </span></span><a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/portrait-lexington-22093"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Portrait
of Lexington</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Edward
Troye, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>R</i></span></span><a href="https://vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8156920/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>ichard
Singleton with "Viley's Harry, Charles and Lew"</u></i></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(Manet)"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Manet’s
</u></span></span></span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(Manet)"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Olympia</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span></li><li>
Jacques-Louis
David, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Crossing_the_Alps"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><i><u>Napoleon
Crossing the Alps</u></i></span></a></li><li>
George
Stubbs, <a href="https://artvee.com/dl/eclipse/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><i><u>Eclipse</u></i></span></a></li><li>
Edward
Troye, <a href="https://www.artnet.com/artists/edward-troye/belmont-30mA1kAX7TFxZ4jdK3Mu2w2"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><i><u>Belmont</u></i></span></a></li><li>
George
Stubbs,<a href="https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21169"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><i><u>Pumpkin
with a Stable-Lad</u></i></span></a></li><li>
Joseph
Brown, <a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp89030/richard-ten-broeck"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><i><u>Richard
Ten Broeck</u></i></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Edward
Troye, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Str
Maris with His Groom</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">,
Kentucky 1857</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.christineobers.com/viewcollection/169638">Christine
Obers</a>-she paints modern horses and lives outside of Mariposa.</span></span></li></ul></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015039304224612208.post-84704844354531443972023-02-28T15:14:00.078-08:002023-03-13T16:16:11.014-07:00The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdalKdc0TqhCUNHPNmfUpfpbVjmCHPk7Ss4HtOpfCWFrojz8x3dnx3oMZc3MFVqaCZQLufSo8a8iTFCxsSc2Zl4Ey-UUY_nkNMdbSRTU0s-pRIMk2bvyPGLjy1_TM-daCebwpo3Awpy_9WUed2ulyovr_Hm5mHG53jvGJdyppVcEETfKy_M7gXs42E/s200/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="133" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdalKdc0TqhCUNHPNmfUpfpbVjmCHPk7Ss4HtOpfCWFrojz8x3dnx3oMZc3MFVqaCZQLufSo8a8iTFCxsSc2Zl4Ey-UUY_nkNMdbSRTU0s-pRIMk2bvyPGLjy1_TM-daCebwpo3Awpy_9WUed2ulyovr_Hm5mHG53jvGJdyppVcEETfKy_M7gXs42E/s1600/images.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><p></p><div><b>Book: The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times</b><br />
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-midwife-memoir-of-birth-joy-and.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-midwife-memoir-of-birth-joy-and.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-midwife-memoir-of-birth-joy-and.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> :
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-106b2db1-7fff-df43-e441-b00323433223" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Jennifer Worth</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: ePub on Libby from the Los Angeles and Sacramento Public Libraries</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Penguin Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9780143116233 (ISBN10: 0143116231)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: February 16, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: February 28, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">320 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: Biography, Short Stories, Book Group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: Low</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3 ½ out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author talks about various stories of her time as a midwife with a
group of Anglican nuns. Some are humorous, few are slapstick. Several
are very serious and have a point to them. But all are her
experiences when she worked the London East End in the 1950’s.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jenny
Lee-Lee is the maiden name of the author. Main character in this
book.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chummy
Browne (Camilla Fortescue-Cholmeley-Browne)-tall, awkward,
aristocratic background, friendly, soft and sweet, near-sighted.
Parents had tried everything to get he to fit n But the only thing
she took to was nursing. Parents were happy that she was happy.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cynthia
Miller-outgoing, makes everyone one feel warm</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trixie
Franklin</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Julienne-Senior nun in charge. Has a way around her which says she
has authority without having to actually use it.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Evangelina-very tight around the rest of the nun’s, but has a way
with the locals.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Monica Joan-an eccentric older nun. Probably a bit senile and a bit
malicious. Worth finds that she is in awe of her and how she is in
her 90’s and has served her God.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Bernadette-very experienced nurse/midwife</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mrs
B.-The cook</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mrs.
Jenkins-an old woman who was once in the workhouse and lost her
children there.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fred-the
repairman who is constantly scheming to make money.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Len
Warren-Father, married to Conchita. Father of 24. Good natured.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Conchita
Warren-mother of 24. Spoke no English, only Spanish</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary-Irish
girl, pregnant, prostitute</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zakir-a
person who seduced Mary into prostitution.</span></span></li><li>
<a href="http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/williamson.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Father
Joe Williamson.</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Vicar of St Paul’s in the Dock Street. Dedicated his life to
helping East End families.</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recommendation:
Jessie from Book Group</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When:
February 11, 2023</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date
Became Aware of Book: Well before then due to the BBC series</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
come do I want to read this book: Book Group</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
do I think I will get out of it? Series of short stories</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
note about naming. When I speak of the author, I will say Worth. But
at the time of the book, she was Jennifer Lee. Lee being her maiden
name.</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most
of the stories are one chapter, but there are some which have two,
three or five of them. On those multiple chapter ones, be alert to
what Worth is trying to say.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a subtext to Worth’s religious development. It starts with the
shock of being an intern in a convent. She had not realized that
religious people could have vocations aside from the church. And then
on Christmas Eve when she assisted in a hard birth with Sister
Bernadette. The Sister would both provide competent care and on the
side, discreetly attend to her various hours of devotion. The Sister
in charge, Sister Julienne had a way about her-authority and
compassion which startled Worth. Finally, there was the oldest
Sister, Sister Monica Joan. It was hard to look beyond her
eccentricity, approaching senility, and sometimes malice. But when
you did, you saw love and care and a life of devotion and service and
love. This set Worth on the course of examining what is this thing
called Christianity.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p><p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Preface</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
January 1998, the Midwives Journal published an article by Terri
Coates entitled </i></span></span><a href="https://www.truthaboutnursing.org/research/lit/orig/coates.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>“Impressions
of a Midwife in Literature”</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This opening begs several questions. Why were stories not made about
midwives? Do they not make a good story? Were they unimportant?</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Obviously,
the author thinks that there should be a story about them. Worth was
one and took up the challenge.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<br />
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Introduction</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nonnatus
House located in the</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Docklands"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
London Docklands</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Nonnatus House is a pseudonym. The group Worth ws with is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Sisters
of St. John the Divine.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The House is named after </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Nonnatus"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>St.
Raymond Nonnatus</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
He is the patron saint of the midwives (along with childbirth,
children, pregnant women, and priests defending the confidentiality
of confession). </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Non
natus</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
is Latin for “not born”</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
describes the area as densely populated, mostly stationary with
extended families either living with each other or close by. It was
an area which was bombed heavily in World War II and the scars had
not been healed yet. Fights and knifings were common. But </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
never heard of gratuitous violence children or towards the elderly;
there was a certain respect for the weak.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sexual
morality was held high. If an unmarried girl got pregnant, the man
who did it, better make good. Divorce was almost non-existent. Men
worked and mothers stayed home.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
did not see a single TV set during my time in the East End, which may
well have contributed to the size of the families.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
was an area where the seamen came, so there were brothels. But they
were apart from the main part of the area. And the seamen kept to
that part. Worth’s comment was that by confining prostitution to
the brothels, it kept the streets clean for the people who lived
there.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the 1950’s, there was an attempt to clear up the slums. This had
the adverse effect of causing families to split. Most of them had not
not known anyplace else and had nowhere else to go.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Pill was introduced in the early 1960s and modern woman was born.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She talked about what the Pill meant-women were no longer tied to
their period. In the 1950’s the midwives responded to 80-100
delivers each month. In 1963 it was 4-5 a month.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By
1980, the docks had closed after centuries of work. The ships no
longer came. The workers were no longer needed.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Florence
Nightingale changed nursing from an unrespectable profession to one
with standards. By the 1950’s it was recognized as someplace where
dedicated groups of nurses were. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>One
such group was the Midwives of St Raymund Nonnatus,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This house was associated with Anglican nuns, who were devoted to
bringing safer childbirth to the poor.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Call
the Midwife</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Opening
of the life of a midwife-having to go out no matter what the weather
or time or how much you have previously worked. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Who
would do such a job?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Worth notes that she was not in this because of the desire to heal or
do-good.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
is riding a bicycle to a client at 2:30 in the morning. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A
couple of policemen wave and call out their greetings; the human
contact raises my spirits no end.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The police always travel in pairs in this area. But nurses and
midwives never do. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We
would never be touched. So deep is the respect, even reverence, of
the roughest, toughest docker for the district midwives that we can
go anywhere alone, day or night, without fear.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
arrives and there is a gaggle of women looking after the mother to
be. Worth does an examination to make sure everything is good. She
then gets prepared, laying out her equipment and putting </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>maternity
pads – “bunnies</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
-- under her. There is a description of the birthing process with a
midwife. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
relief of a safe delivery is so powerful.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then there is the afterbirth to get all of the placenta out. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author asks the question, why aren’t midwives lauded? Held in high
esteem? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
say it takes seven years of practice to make a good midwife </i></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>My
mother and all her siblings were delivered by an untrained woman,
usually called the “goodwife” or the “handywoman.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
did Worth become a midwife? The war disrupted life. Then a passionate
love affair did not complete. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>So,
for purely pragmatic reasons, my choice was nursing. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And after a year, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Never,
never, never. I wouldn’t swap my job for anything on earth.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In the 1960’s, she became a palliative nurse. Then in the 1970’s
she did swap out her job. To study music.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Nonnatus
House</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
did not know that Nonnatus House was a covenant before she arrived. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
talks about the Cockney accent in English. See the chapter towards
the end of the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
is met by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Sister
Monica Joan,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
a very eccentric older nun. Worth is not sure she is at the right
place as it seems like the Sister is mad. They have tea and cake, all
of the cake. The rest of the nun’s arrive and are going to eat when
they discover that the cake has been eaten, all of it. Sister
Evangelina is upset and knows that Sister Monica Joan has eaten a
good share of it. There is going to be an ongoing conflict between
the two throughout the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
meets two of her fellow intern midwives: Cynthia and Trixie. She
would be friends with them, especially Cynthia.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
meets with Sister Julienne. First, the Siser notes that strange
things happen with Sister Monica Joan. There would be no more mention
of the cake. Sister Julienne spoke about the routine Worth would have
over her time there. Instead of feeling weighed down by the Sister in
charge, there was a feeling of lightness. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
impact Sister Julienne made upon me – and, I discovered, most
people – was out of all proportion to her words or her appearance</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Morning
Visits</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
returns from her delivery of the first chapter. She needs to clean up
and write up her notes first, before eating or taking a nap. She got
four hours of sleep before having to go out again.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
goes on her rounds with three visits, including the one delivered
last night. She describes the typical flat. 150 years ago, they were
considered luxurious. Now they are slums. There were usually 10-12
people in two or three rooms. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Social
law seems to suggest that the poorest families are often the ones
that produce the greatest number of children, and the tenements were
always teeming with them. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This creates a hotbed for disease and violence.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her
first visit was with Edith who had given birth ten days ago and was
getting close to the end of her convalesce. Two weeks was then
considered good practice. The Sisters did not advocate formula,
feeling breast milk was better for the baby and mother. In looking
around the tenements, Worth could see the practicality of
breastfeeding as there would be no place to either refrigerate the
milk or sterilize the bottles. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
had not taken into account the social conditions in which the Sisters
worked. The lecturers </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[at
school] </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>were
not dealing with real life.</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
next visit was with Molly. Worth interrupted an argument with the
husband. Molly was pregnant with her third. The usual thing was for
mothers to visit the clinic regularly. Molly had not been in three
months and now was in her ninth month.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
went on to Muriel who had delivered the night before. But before, she
met a person which Worth despises-Mrs Jenkins [see the chapter </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mrs
Jenkins</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">].
Mrs Jenkins seemed to know when a birth had happened and would always
show up. She alway inquired about the mother and child. Worth thought
she was a nuisance. The baby and mother were doing well. Worth would
visit again that evening. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
was not until about a year later, when I was a general district
nurse, that I learned more about Mrs Jenkins…and learned a little
humility.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chummy</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about Chummy Browne. Talks about learning to ride a bicycle. It was
not easy. As an adult, it is hard to learn to ride a bike. She
suffered through many crashes. She did not give up; </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Chummy
was made of sterner stuff.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
She knocked over a policeman.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Molly</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Molly
was one of the mothers to be in the Morning Visits chapter. Molly had
not done any followup visits to the clinic to be checked on. When a
site visit had happened four months previous, everything seemed
satisfactory. Now it was a dump. Molly’s mom was the reason-she had
been picking up everything and cleaning. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
visit’s Molly’s mother, Marjorie. The place is clean and airy.
The mother gives out the history. Then she met her husband-to-be and
things degenerated. After hearing the story, a hospital delivery was
arranged without Molly’s consent. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
delivery was made in a hospital and three weeks later,the Midwives
got a call asking if they could do a postnatal visit. Molly had given
birth and walked out after three days instead of the full two weeks.
Sister Bernadette did the home visit. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
did twice a day home visits. There was no answer one day. She
returned later and still no answer. When she looked through a mail
slot, she saw a paraffin heater which could start a fire. No Molly.
Marjorie says Molly's </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
gone on the game, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
(having sex for money). The police were picking the locks. They got
in and the husband came about that time. He tried to act all
innocent.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
also tried to intimidate Worth and cozy up to her. Worth days that
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Few
men can withstand a woman’s lock of utter contempt.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
All had to leave as the father exercised his rights to the children
and the apartment. Worth left which much to think about.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Bicycle</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chummy
eventually learned how to ride a bicycle. A 13 year old becomes her
champion. He drove away the jeering kids. A friendship was born. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
notes that neither Jack or Chummy saw defeat as a possibility. So
Chummy learned.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
that was the extent of their friendship. Chummy wanted to keep the
friendship going as well as show her appreciation. Sister Julienne
noted that just giving a small gift, while it would be appreciated,
it would not show Jack the extent of Chummy’s gratefulness. It
should be something he would value and something she could afford.
She gave him a bicycle. He still was her protector. This being a
protector was something which he put to good use: he was Lady Diana’s
bodyguard.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Antenatal
Clinc</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
did not like the antenatal clinic. This was a weekly time where the
moths would come in for checkup. The thing was that there was not
good hygiene in the area. So there was a concentration of smells
which overwhelmed Worth. Other midwives did not seem to mind it. This
was done in a church hall. There was heating by a coke furnace. Also
a gas jet was there so that urine tests could be done. Primitive by
2020’s standard, but pretty good for the 1950’s.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lil
Hoskin has her first visit. There were seven children before and they
all came and were active. The mother was dirty and stank. The woman
had syphilis. Worth was revulsed. Lil needed penicillin for ten days.
A novice nun who was experienced provided guidance. Worth made the
house calls each day and realized that this disgusting person was
different at home. Still a mess and dirty, but much more relaxed and
loved the kids. Worth noted that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
she had come to pick up syphilis was none of my business. I was there
to treat the condition, not to judge.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is an interesting statement. I am not to judge sin, that is
God’s business. I am to be there as a person of compassion.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
next day when Worth came, Lil was not there. She had been taken to
the hospital. The baby was dead.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Rickets</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
pioneer in this branch of obstetrics was a Dr </i></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Ballantyne"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>J.
W. Ballantyne</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
of Edinburgh University.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Worth talks about how there was opposition to obstetrics.The midwife
practice was only certified in 1903.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
is back at the clinic for the Tuesday afternoon checkups. Brenda
comes in with rickets. Rickets is a vitamin D deficiency. It means
that it is hard to give birth and many times the baby dies. Sometimes
the mother also. Brenda was going to have a C-section to get around
this problem-her four previous pregnancies had ended in the death of
the baby. But this one was carried full term and the baby was born
alive.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Eclampsia</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By
1975, well after the stories in this book take place, only 1% of
babies were born at home. Sally’s grandmother made sure that
Sally’s baby was born at home. But as the pregnancy continued,
there were warning signs. This is eclampsia. Worth’s diagnosis was
checked out and Sally was taken to the hospital where she got
complete bed rest until the end of her pregnancy. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
tells about the first meeting of a mother with eclampsia. She died.
This death left a deep impression on her. Her husband’s take was </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
am just thankful that I knew her at all. If we had not met, or if we
had met and just passed each other by, all the great literature of
the world, all the poets, all the great love stories would have been
meaningless to me.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This has got to be the best statement in the book. Before his whole
life was filled with work/science. When love entered, he was
overwhelmed. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Fred</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fred
was the handyman which Sister Julienne relied on for all sorts of
things and Fred was the type who was happy to help. Everybody loved
Fred, except Mrs. B who ruled the kitchen, which sometimes Fred
forgot that fact.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fred
was a widower with a live at home daughter. He tried to make money to
tend to them. He sold onions and potatoes. He was selling chickens
until the authorities figured out he kept them in his home. AT the
convent, he also cleaned out drains. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Fred, a poet with rod and suction, was not to be discouraged. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Each money making idea came to an end, but he continued to try to
figure out another means.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Christmas Baby</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Betty
lived a life of luxury according to the Docklands standards. She had
a big house, wonderful family and was expecting her next child in
February. But on Christmas Day, Betty went into labor. Sister
Bernadette said she would attend; Worth was the nurse on call, so she
went as well-she was a student at this time.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Downstairs
life was festive. Betty wanted it that way. The baby was in a breech
position. Worth called the doctor, who lived in the area. Sister
Bernadette instructed Worth about why she was doing what she was
doing. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
was the first time Worth had been exposed to Advent. The nuns
practiced it. Worth found out that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
religious life is a hidden life,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The sisters tried to include her, but the whole concept of Christ
being born on this day was foreign. But it bothered her. She started
questioning this myth called God. It was discomforting. She
attended a Christmas Mass with the sisters. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Why
was it the whole meaning of life for these good Sisters, yet just a
piece of well executed theatre for me?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Throughout
the time with Betty, Sister Bernadette kept her religious activities
as well, but in small discrete ways. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
in order to say the office of the day. The nuns lived by the monastic
rules of the six offices of the day: lauds; tierce; sext; none;
vespers; compline and Holy Communion each morning. In a contemplative
community, the offices together occupy about five hours of prayer
time. For a working community this is impracticable, so, in the early
days of their vocation, the Midwives of St Raymund Nonnatus had had a
shortened version devised for them.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
reflected on her times in the hospital during Christmas. Since the
patients stayed in a hospital longer, nurses got to know them. It was
a time when everybody was able to feel good about each other. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Breech Delivery</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Continuation
of the previous chapter. Sister Bernedette describes the birth to
Worth. Since this was a breech birth, the head is the last out. There
were times when Sister Bernedette let the baby hang to help the head
come out.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
Worth, the miracle of the birth is that once the mother gives birth,
she literally forgets the agony of which she has been through and
only has eyes for the baby. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since
it was Christmas, a party had been going on, which was Betty’s
desires. After the birth, twenty children had come up to see the
baby.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Worth left, she went on a roundabout way back. This gave her time to
reflect on what had just happened, Christmas and the Sisters. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Jimmy</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
meets up with an old friend, with a night out. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Old
friendships are always the best, and childhood friends are very
special.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
He was not an old boyfriend, but someone whom she grew up with. She</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
had found life with the sisters and the work in the East End so
unexpectedly absorbing that I hadn’t wanted to go anywhere else. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But a night out would be good to unwind.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
talks about an outing she had with them while in nursing school.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
met Jimmy and his friends at Plastere’s Arms pub on Baker Street.
They decide to go to Brighton for a swim. They swam in the nude. A
cold 3am swim. She got out very shortly and had an asthma attack. She
was to start her day at 8am, but got back at 10. Worth told Sister
Julienne about the night. She laughed and said that Jimmy sounded
like a good guy.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">30
years later, Jimmy turned into a hen-pecked husband.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Len
and Conchita Warren</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
was a good story.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
saw on the notes that the expectant 42 year old mother had 23
children. She had to do a house call to ascertain the feasibility of
a home birth. The site looked like 23 children lived there, happily.
Conchita spoke no English, but the communication was through the
children. But she was in control and commanded respect.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
asked the sisters about her. Well known, but not much known about
her. Maybe she was not very bright and that was the reason why she
did not communicate in English-this would prove to be false. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
had noticed before that certain people can completely disguise a
basic lack of intelligence simply by saying nothing</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
found out the husband had fought in the Spanish Civil War and came
back with Conchita.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Worth came back that evening to get her history, Len was there. There
were 23 children, Len and Conchita. Everything was harmonious. Worth
did an examination and all looked normal, about 5-6 months along.
Worth went many times back for home visits over the next several
months, making it a point to go when Len was there. The family ate
communally. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
the time was near for Conchita to give birth, Len stayed home. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This
he did, to my amazement. In those days no self-respecting East Ender
would demean himself by doing what he would call “womens’ work.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Len was even there at childbirth-this was a rarity. The birth was
smooth. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
Worth was leaving, Len revealed why he and Conchita got along so
well-he spoke no Spanish; she no English. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Quite
suddenly, with blinding insight, the secret of their blissful
marriage was revealed to me. She couldn’t speak a word of English,
and he couldn’t speak a word of Spanish.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Sister
Monica Joan</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
is enchanted by Sister Monica Joan’s voice, maybe not so much her
words. A bit of background on the Sister. She was above 90 and
bordered on senility. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
she was no saint in some relationships, particularly with Sister
Evangelina. Sister Monica Joan would torment her. At lunch time, she
worked on embarrassing her. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Her
mind was obviously going, but how much was senility, and how much
downright naughtiness? </i></span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Evangelina was not an intellectual heavyweight like Sister Monica
Joan. So it was an unfair fight. She was unsure of herself and it
showed. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
monastic vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are hard, very hard.
But harder still is the task of living, day in, day out, with your
Sisters in God.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Mary</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
And </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Zajir</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Cable
Street</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Cafe
Life</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Flight</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is a five chapter story. There is also a strip show and orgy scene.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
meets a beggar by the name of Mary. Worth had come from a concert and
was asked for change for a bill which would was a high denomination.
Mary tells Worth her story. She came from Ireland. Her father died.
Her mother turned to alcohol and married a man who abused Mary. Mary
migrated to London. London was not what she imagined. Not the
gleaming city, but a city full of people who had their own business.
She ate little, even just breadcrumbs left for the birds. She had
fallen for a guy, Zakir, who seduced her and then left her in a place
of prostitution. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
some prostitution was nothing. But to Mary, it was scary and foreign.
What made Mary leave? A girl named Nellie who </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>was
always lonely, I think, because deep down inside, she was always
looking for someone who belonged to her.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Nellie had gotten pregnant. The madam arranged for an abortion, not a
clean one, but a backstreet one. A woman came in with what looked
like steel knitting needles and stabbed Nellie’s baby to be and
eventually killed it. Nellie was in great pain. Nellie died,
probably to blood loss and infection. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
had little doubt that many other prostitutes had disappeared and no
one ever missed them because they were usually homeless, unwanted
girls.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
Mary realized she was pregnant. She was discovered and lived in fear
that what happened in Nellie would happen to her. She stole five
pounds and ran away. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
story was told at a cafe where Worth got change for the bill. Worth
sees she is pregnant-Worth is a midwife after all, so she should be
able to see the signs. And now she had no place to go. After trying
the YWCA-it was closed-she took Mary to the covenant. Worth notes the
mission of the covenant is nursing and midwifing, not caring for the
homeless. The covenant does not have enough resources for that. Worth
took Mary back to the convent and explained what happened. Sister
Julienne made arrangements with Father Joe to take her to Church
House. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Father
Joe was a saint. Saints come in all sorts of shapes and sizes –
they don’t have to wear halos.</i></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/be0429f9-7332-33fd-9bb3-b55b81193234?component=20865622-6125-3f24-9853-4eb7d076a773"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Wellclose
Trust</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary
was transferred to another home run by the Catholic Church. There her
baby was born. Worth notes that mothering is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
gentlest and happiest of all feminine activities. The nuns held
classes in baby care, and she happily bathed and dressed dolls</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
[my note: seems ironic that it would be nuns who give instruction on
child care].</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Motherhood brings out the best in most women, and flighty, giddy
young girls often become responsible, reliable mothers, as soon as
the baby is born.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From
the ecstaticness of having the baby born and it being beautiful, The
baby had been taken and put up for adoption. The nuns had done so
because they saw no future with the mother since she was underaged
with no skills. The adoption was anonymous. The Reverend Mother
talked about the rational, while also having a deep empathy, not
emotional.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Circumstances
bring people together, and take them apart. One cannot keep up with
everyone in a lifetime. In any event, was there any true friendship
between myself and Mary?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
last which Worth saw of Mary was that Mary had abducted a baby and
was sentenced to prison.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
had found that the Sisters were kind and this was another case where
they did kindness both to Mary and Worth.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
makes the case for why a mother would go into prostitution-would you
let your child starve?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
area which Mary ended up being a prostitute at was filled with hard
working people. But there was a section which almost seemed to be
zoned for vice of all kinds. The people in the area tolerated it
because it kept the vice in one area and they could ignore the area.
Also it contained where the vice was so they did not get affected by
it. The whole area was scheduled for renewal after the war, but it
would take twenty-plus years before this would happen. In the
meantime, homes could not be sold or improved; the area got more run
down. She talks about one school where the caretaker comes in early
each morning to clean up the filth there- condoms, syringes,
underwear, bloodstained sheets, … Fear prevented the residents
from disturbing the powerful men who ran the clubs.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>it
is better to travel hopefully than to arrive</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-she
quotes this from an unknown source.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Sister
Evangelina</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
makes a discovery about Sister Evangelina. Worth had broken a
shoulder-no explanation about how. So she assisted Sister Evangelina
in working with older people. This was not a good fit as the sister
was someone who would find fault with others.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth’s
comment-nuns by definition had to be exceptional people. She notes
that even if you do not see it, there will be something which a nun
will do which is out of the ordinary, making them exceptional.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Evangelina’s exceptional talent was being able to be accepted and
loved by the older Cockney population. While not Cockney, she was
comfortable around them, acted like them. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Sister
Evangelina was not humourless. The only trouble was that at Nonnatus
House her humour was different from everyone else’s.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
At the convent, she did not fit in. Out there she did. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
was only with her patients in the docklands that she could truly be
herself.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Bathroom humor was part of her repertoire. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
gives Sister Evangelina’s history. This included parachuting behind
enemy lines during World War I.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most
hospitals were converted workhouses. So they were a place of fear and
degradation. Sounds different from our current very sterile
hospitals. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
think the lesson learned from this chapter is that no person is what
they seem to be, particularly if they are not in their own
environment.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Mrs
Jenkins</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
chapter follows that theme. We got introduced to Mrs. Jenkins back in
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Morning
Visits</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
chapter. Also saw the loathing Worth had for her. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jenkins
had an obsession with newborn babies. She was never welcomed and
considered a nuisance by all. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
had always found her interesting but repugnant.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The shrinking back was on both parts-the general populace and Mrs
Jenkins. When Sister Julienne tried to engage her in conversation,
she recoiled and pulled away. This caused Worth to examine her
interactions with Jenkins and saw how she was wanting. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the things which Worth noted was that she had extraordinary size
feet for such a small and frail woman. She had unhealthy habits,
even more so than other East Enders. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
got assigned to go and see what was bothering Mrs Jenkins. Turned out
she lived in the area where the prostitutes lived. But Mrs Jenkins
did not cooperate. Sister Evangelina was advised and came on the call
that evening. The Sister got the same reaction as Worth
did-non-cooperative. That is until the Sister let out a big fart!
This led Mrs Jenkins to laugh and she was able to be treated.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_Portrait_of_an_Old_Woman_-_WGA3525.jpg"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Bruegel
painting</u></i></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Rosie</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
now Worth got to know a bit more about Mrs Jenkins. Mrs Jenkins'
living conditions improved. The space was cleaned. Even a hole in the
roof was covered. Worth’s job was to clean up Mrs Jenkins. What she
found was that there was barely any of her body. The boots were hard
to get off, but inside the boots were 8-10” toe nails. When Worth
was leaving, there was a howl like a wolf. Sister Evangelina
identified it as the workhouse howl.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mrs
Jenkins at one time was in a workhouse. She had six children. Her
husband died. Jenkins was able to work in a factory until being
injured in some machinery. After pawning everything, she ran out of
money and petitioned the government which said she was lazy. When her
baby died, she accepted that she and her children needed to go into
the workhouse.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Workhouse</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
system must have seemed like an act of pure Christian goodness and
charity. But, like so many good intentions, it quickly turned sour.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Mrs Jenkins went into the workhouse, they were given uniforms. Then
they were separated. Jenkins would never see her children again. They
all died, even Rosie.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
describes the misery of the workhouse. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Bottom Dropped Out of Pigs</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fred
wants to bounce back from his previous fiasco and start raising pigs.
Sister Julienne knew about pigs and advised him about its upbringing.
And then the price of pork dropped.Sister Julienne advised him to
use the pig as a breeder pig instead of butchering him. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Of
Mixed Descent I</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before
paternity tests, how did a man know that the wife’s or girlfriend’s
baby was something he produced?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about Bella and Tom. Her family spared no expense to have their
wedding. She was used to being pampered and he worked more and more
overtime. Bella was depressed as the time of birth came closer.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
the birth was happening, Bella cried out, you have got to stop this.
Bella understood that the baby was going to be black, unlike both Tom
and Bella. Bella’s mother wants to put the baby up for adoption
immediately. Worth said that would not be possible-several reasons.
Instead of black, the baby was white. Nobody but the mother,
grandmother and Worth knew about what happened.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Of
Mixed Descent II</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about the Smiths-Cyril and Doris. They and their children spent a few
weeks in the summer hops picking, along with other families. A West
Indies family was also there which Doris enjoyed. Doris was pregnant
and gave birth. Worth was the attending midwife. The baby was
beautiful, and black. Worth thought it would be worthwhile for
someone to be there when her husband came home. She talked to Sister
Julienne who had the rector send over a curate. The husband was irate
and the curate stopped violence. The baby was put up for adoption.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Of
Mixed Descent III</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ted,
a widower of 58 years old. He met Winnie at the newspaper shop. He
asked her out and eventually they married. She was much younger. At
44, she became pregnant again. He was now in his 60’s. When Winnie
gave birth, the baby was decidedly ethnic.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ted
never said anything about it. And he obviously showed love towards
the child. Behind his back he was ridiculed for being a fool. But
Worth’s take on it was that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
the Russian Orthodox Church there is the concept of the </i></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolishness_for_Christ"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Holy
Fool</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.
It means someone who is a fool to the ways of the world, but wise to
the ways of God.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It seems to me that Ted made a decision and a deep one as it was.
First and foremost, he forgave Winnie and did not even mention her
indiscretion. This is a deeper forgiveness than I think I would be
able to achieve. Second, he accepted this baby which was not even his
as his own. In that, he mimicked God. To me Ted, did as God does with
us.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Luncheon Party</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More
humor with Worth’s old childhood friends Jimmy and Mike. They want
to spend a night at the covenant, but Worth says no. Instead they got
lunch there.All the ladies were there. The boys brought along a
friend of theirs, Alan who is a reporter. Worth describes Alan as
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>already
formed conclusions about life which he had picked up secondhand,
without having lived much of it himself.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
That is a witty line. He tries to get something from Sister
Bernadette, but Sister Monica Joan starts to talk with him and he is
confused. All eyes were on him and he turned red as he did not know
how to answer. Sister Monica Joan’s remark about Alan was </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
sweet. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush.
Perfectly charming.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
was looseness of tongue and Sister Evangelina just about burst from
laughing, but she would not reveal her secret. This was totally out
of character for her. Even her tormentor, Sister Monica Joan,
supported Sister Evangelina in not telling. Sister Monica Joan told a
story, but left out the juicy part. Worth’s comment: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Life
is so fleeting, and the past so rich.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Monica Joan told a story or two. But when asked for more, she noted
that she was not here for their entertainment, but by the grace of
God. And that she was 90 years old and had been around 20 years too
long.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Smog</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is another several chapter story.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back
to Conchita Warren. Worth and Conchita’s daughter, Liz, had become
acquainted. Liz was a skilled dressmaker and Worth liked having her
dresses tailormade.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
London smog was at its worst. You could not see. Conchita had slipped
and fallen and had a concussion. She went into labor. It was so bad
that you could not see at all, about two yards ahead even with
powerful lights. Worth notifies Sister Julienne who gives advice on
how to proceed. She gets a police escort and Sister Julienne’s
prayers.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
arrived in 15 minutes. Conchita was in a bad way. No doctors were
available. She needed to get to a hospital, but the same lack of
visibility would hamper an ambulance from getting there. Then she
remembered Sister Julienne was praying and some of Julian of
Norwich’;s words came to her:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>All
shall be well, and all will be well</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>and
all manner of things shall be well</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
then proceeded to give birth after a time of frenzy. The baby
appeared to be dead. But Len, the husband, noticed the baby was
breathing. It weighed about 1.5 pounds. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The
Flying Squad</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Flying Squad is the backup crew for a midwife. When there was a hard
case which could cause issues with the mother or child, they were
sent. They arrived, just as the doctor did after the end of the
birth. They recommended that Conchita be sent to the hospital. Len
said no, they can take care of her at his home. The group did things
for Conchita to take care of the concussion and fever and left her
there. This caused all to be happy.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
the baby was another thing. It was such a preemie, it would die
without care. Len agreed to that. She lost a lot of blood and needed
a transfusion. At last all of the placenta came out.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A
Premature Baby</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All
the pieces are in place to transport the baby to the hospital.
Conchita wakes up and finds out what is going on. She refuses to part
with the baby. Faced with this refusal after informing her of the
possible death of her child, they packed up everything to leave.
Worth is left with the doctor-neither know how to care for the baby.
But Worth’s observation was that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Had
the baby died at birth, or had he been taken away to hospital, I
think Conchita would have died also.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Conchita
was confident the baby would not die and because of that, so was Len.
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
smog was lifting and Worth went back to the convent. All of the
nurses and Sisters came to visit at one time or another and were
astonished. Conchita cared for the baby without reference to a manual
and the baby thrived. Worth asks, how did she know how to care for
him? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
had the warmth, the touch, the softness, the smell, the moisture of
his mother. He heard her heartbeat and her voice. He had her milk.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>
Above all, he had her love</u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
notes that in the 1950’s, society was less invasive into family
life. Today, would there have been ordered hospital care for the
baby? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Either
he is the ultimate survivor, or we put far too much emphasis on
technology and techniques, I thought</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
says that she is thankful that Conchita was so forceful about not
letting the baby go. Probably both her and the baby would have died
and all the household happiness would have gone with them.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Old,
Old Age</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Monica Joan was a mystery to Worth. Was she senile and her
obnoxiousness could be excused? Or was she exceedingly crafty? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
old are deeply interesting.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This was true even outside of the covenant walls. Worth talks about
taking her to a cello concert where she proceeded to disrupt
everything and making sure she was the center of attention. They took
her back to the convent at intermission. Another incident was when
she went out on her bicycle with only her night gown on. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
the night gown incident, Worth reflects that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Now
and then in life, love catches you unawares. …. Once in a while you
are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all
unprepared, by assault.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This is because Worth realized she not only loved Sister Monica
Joan, but everything she represented: her religion, the vocation, the
prayers, the quietness and service to God. And then she realized, she
may also love God.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>In
The Beginning</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Monica Joan looked pretty bad after going out in her nightgown
episode. But she was given antibiotics and she had good stamina.
The doctor wanted her to rest. Usually lay people cannot visit a
nun’s cell, but since a doctor said it was OK to have visitors, she
was receiving them, including Worth. </span></span>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is where Worth discovered that Sister Monica Joan was a poet. She
did not have any secrets, so Worth was able to look at them. The
poems she saw were a combination of satire, humor, loneliness, and
religious. A sample of her religious writings were</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
turned to you</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When
our love was too brief</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>And
found your strength.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
needed you.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
the years of my grief</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>And
knew you, at length</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
could relate.. She responded with </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Does
one have to suffer so dreadfully in order to know the unknown God? </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
CS Lewis had a bit of this when he wrote his book </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Till
We Have Faces</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Much of Odul’s life was suffering. At the end of it, she sees that
we cannot face God until we have a face as well as God.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
asked Sister Monica Joan about why there were not a lot of religious
poems, she responded with a bit of humility. She cannot describe the
great Mystery of Life. She notes that the Gospels are </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>four
short accounts of God made Man. There is nothing more to say.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
had come to the convent without knowing it was something religious.
She emerged from it with a respect and deep love for the Sisters. </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
asked Sister Monica Joan if the reason why she came to the covenant
was to work with those who had experienced hardship and a rough life?
The answer was </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don’t even know? Can
anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching
weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love
these things.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>
One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His
people.</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>”</i></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Monica Joan told Worth, find out for herself the answer to the
questions she was asking. Read the Gospels, seek God. Faith is not
given by others. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Go
with God, child; just go with God.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
these words, Worth started reading the gospels.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
BBC TV series, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Call
the Midwife,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
has its start from this book. Jennifer Worth read an article saying
there were really no modern day book of stories about midwives. She
took up the challenge of writing such a book. How well did she
succeed?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
wrote a pretty readable book, filled with the people of London’s
East End. First there are the Sisters of the convent she did her
internship as a midwife. She realizes that these are highly
talented, intelligent women who are making an impact on their area.
But like any community, there are eccentricities which she enjoys
talking about.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
course, if you are going to talk about midwifery, you need to talk
about the women who are about to give birth. This ranges from mothers
with their first child to the one who has 24 other children. There is
humor and sadness. And then there are the unexpected births. All in
all, this is an interesting book. If you watch the TV series and are
a reader, you will not be disappointed in this book.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
asks, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Who
would do such a job? </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[of
a midwife]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Assuming
you had the knowledge and ability, could you do the work of a
midwife?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
start of the book opens in literature, there are no stories about
midwives. Why were stories not made about midwives? Do they not make
a good story? Were they unimportant? Do you think Worth did the same
thing for midwives as James Heriott did for veterinarians? </span></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have
you watched the BBC series, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Call
the Midwife</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?
How is the show similar? Different?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think Worth wrote the book?</span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
did you like about the book? Dislike?</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you like? Why? Dislike?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
wrote about the poverty she encountered working on the East End.
Describe what she encountered. Why did the poor congregate there?
After World War II ended, the area was condemned. How did this
contribute to the decline? In what ways can “urban renewal” help
and hinder the people living there?</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">According
to Worth, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Social
law seems to suggest that the poorest families are often the ones
that produce the greatest number of children, and the tenements were
always teeming with them.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Do you think this is true? Why do you think the poorer the family,
the more children there will be? Do you think this helps or hurts a
family’s chances of getting out of poverty?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
training Worth got was that it was better to have the babies on
formula than breastfeeding. Once she was visiting her clients she
realized that breastfeeding would be better than formula. Why? What
is the proper relationship between what is taught and experience? And
even beyond that, science vs the real-world?</span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Worth
has five chapters in the book on Mary who had been seduced into
prostitution. Why do you think Worth spent so much time on Mary’s
story? Why does she include the part about the stripper and orgy? Do
you think that Worth was being too graphic during the story? How
would you have told the story?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
did Mary keep with Zakir even after the strip show/orgy? What
prevented her from leaving later when Zakir was no longer interested
in her? Why did she eventually leave?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While
Mary was at the Cable St cafe, she witnessed a girl who had become
pregnant attacked, killing the baby. Eventually the baby died. Why
does Worth talk about this episode? Worth becomes an advocate for
legalized abortions. What did she attempt to accomplish by this
advocacy? How would you stop this type of situation? Would legalized
abortions help?</span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary
had her baby in a Catholic home for young women. Within two weeks,
the home had put up the baby for adoption without Mary’s consent.
Why did they do it this way? Do you think this was the right way to
put up the baby? Which should take priority, the needs of Mary or the
baby?</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Julienne makes her appearance throughout the book. Worth notes that
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
impact Sister Julienne made upon me – and, I discovered, most
people – was out of all proportion to her words or her appearance.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What kind of person is Sister Julienne? Describe her. How is she true
to her calling?</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
both Sister Evangelina and Mrs Jenkins, they were not who they
appeared to be. What caused each to reveal their hidden persons?
Worth says that she learned a little humility. How can we properly
evaluate a person? How does your answer correspond with Math 7:1?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
talking about Mrs Jenkins, Worth talks about the workhouses. She
notes that the system</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
must have seemed like an act of pure Christian goodness and charity.
But, like so many good intentions, it quickly turned sour.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Why do good actions, even if Christian in nature, have a tendency to
degenerate as time goes on? Name some instances of these. How can we
avoid this degeneration?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Of
Mixed Descent III</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
chapter Worth talks about the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Holy
Fool.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What is this? How was Ted an example of this character? How is a
Christian called to be a fool in the society's eyes and wise in God?
Who would you say is an example of this?</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alan
as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>already
formed conclusions about life which he had picked up secondhand,
without having lived much of it himself.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Describe Alan. What trap does Worth describe that Alan’s thinking
had fallen into? How can we avoid making unfounded assumptions?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
an American, there were many words which seemed foreign to me. What
word stood out the most to you?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Midwife</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character was the most convincing? Least? </span></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
character did you identify with?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which
one did you dislike?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
story has a world view. Were you able to identify this story’s
world view? What was it? How did it affect the story?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
what context was religion talked about in this book?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
there anybody you would consider religious?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did they show it?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Was
the book overtly religious?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did it affect the book's story?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
central ideas does the author present?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
they personal, sociological, global, political, economic, spiritual,
medical, or scientific</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>evidence</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
does the author use to support the book's ideas?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is
the evidence convincing...definitive or...speculative?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author depend on personal opinion, observation, and assessment?
Or is the evidence factual—based on science, statistics, historical
documents, or quotations from (credible) experts?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
implications for you, our nation or the world do these ideas have?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
these idea’s controversial? </span></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
whom and why?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
there solutions which the author presents?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
they seem workable? Practicable?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
would you implement them?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
is the culture described in this book different than where we live?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
economic or political situations are described?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author examine economics and politics, family traditions, the
arts, religious beliefs, language or food?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
how God is viewed?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.02in; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p> <br /><br /><b id="NewWords">New Words:</b><br />
</div><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">multigravida-a
woman (or female animal) who is or has been pregnant for at least a
second time</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">fundus-the
part of a hollow organ; the upper part of the stomach, which forms a
bulge higher than the opening of the esophagus</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">oxytocics-
used to induce labour, obstetric at term, to prevent or control
postpartum or postabortion haemorrhage, and to assess foetal status
in high risk pregnancies</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">besotted-strongly
infatuated.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">nappies-a
square of thick soft paper or cloth that is fastened around a baby's
bottom and between its legs to absorb its urine and solid waste</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">slattern-a
dirty, untidy woman</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">antenatal-before
birth; prenatal.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">foetal
head-egg-shaped, being broader posteriorly and symmetric without
irregularity of contour. Ossification of the skull vault is complete
by 12 weeks</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">gallipot-
small pot made from glazed earthenware or metal, used by pharmacists
to hold medicines or ointments</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">oedematous-a
tissue with an excess of interstitial fluid; fluid-filled</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">flexion-the
action of bending or the condition of being bent, especially the
bending of a limb or joint.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">draughtsman-English
term for a draftsman</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">navvy-a
laborer employed in the excavation and construction of a road,
railroad, or canal.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sheelin-an
irish cream??</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">poteen-
a traditional Irish distilled beverage</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ordure-excrement;
dung.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">knuckledustered-
"fist-load weapons" used in hand-to-hand combat. Brass
knuckles are pieces of metal shaped to fit around the knuckles.
Despite their name, they are often made from other metals, plastics
or carbon fibers.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">middens-an
old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human
excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds,</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">skivvy-underwear,
especially a set consisting of undershirt and underpants, or just the
underpants.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">locum-a
person who stands in temporarily for someone else of the same
profession, especially a cleric or doctor.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">furred-coated
or clogged with a deposit or thick layer of something.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">chiropodist-a
person who treats the feet and their ailments; a podiatrist.</span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://museumofoxford.org/workhouse-paupers-in-oxford"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>workhouse
howl</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-an
animal-like scream of pain and despair</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">opprobrium-harsh
criticism or censure.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">primigravida-a
woman who is pregnant for the first time.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">analgesic-(of
a drug) acting to relieve pain.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">badinage-humorous
or witty conversation.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">tureen-a
deep covered dish from which soup is served.</span></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766216.Notes_on_Nursing?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=JLILctX68w&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><u>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Notes
on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not</i></span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Florence Nightingale</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Behind
the Blue Door: the history of the Royal College of Midwives,
1881-1981</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Betty Cowell, David Wainwright</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lady
Chatterley’s Lover </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
D. H. Lawrence</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pig
Breeders’ Guide</i></span></span></li><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2500801.Natural_Childbirth?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=fhAbsJHQga&rank=4"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Natural
Childbirth</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Grantley Dick Read</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Textbook
for Midwifes</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Margaret Myles</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
New Baby; Positive Parents; The Growing Child; From Birth to Teens</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: In January 1998, the Midwives Journal published an article by
Terri Coates entitled “Impressions of a Midwife in Literature</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: That evening, I started to read the Gospels.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
religious life is a hidden life, Chp A Christmas Baby</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Old
friendships are always the best, and childhood friends are very
special. Chp Jimmy</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Little
do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better
thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. Quoted from
Robert Louis Stevenson, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Virginibus
Puerisque</i></span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Life
is so fleeting, and the past so rich. Chp The Luncheon Party</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
one have to suffer so dreadfully in order to know the unknown God?
Chp In The Beginning</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Beauty
is truth, truth beauty,—that is all, Ye know on earth, and all ye
need to know." John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people. Chp
In The Beginning. Words were from Sister Monica Joan</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Go
with God, child; just go with God. Chp In The Beginning. Words were
from Sister Monica Joan</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Preface</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Introduction</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Call
the Midwife</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nonnatus
House</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Morning
Visits</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chummy</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Molly</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Bicycle</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Antenatal
Clinc</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rickets</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eclampsia</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fred</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Christmas Baby</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Breech Delivery</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jimmy</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Len
and Conchita Warren</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Monica Joan</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zajir</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cable
Street </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cafe
Life </span></span>
</li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Flight</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sister
Evangelina</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mrs
Jenkins</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rosie</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Workhouse</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Bottom Dropped Out of Pigs</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
Mixed Descent I</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
Mixed Descent II</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of
Mixed Descent III</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Luncheon Party</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Smog</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Flying Squad</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Premature Baby</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Old,
Old Age</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
The Beginning</span></span></li></ul>
<br />
<br />
<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/305612/call-the-midwife-by-jennifer-worth/9780143123255/readers-guide/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_the_Midwife_(book)"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Worth"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Call-Midwife-Memoir-Birth-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B008MFVH0C"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jennifer-Worth/author/B001OJR8KQ?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/call-the-midwife-jennifer-worth/1113727967"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6114607"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/527872.Jennifer_Worth"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.eadt.co.uk/things-to-do/21675075.sister-call-midwife-author-jennifer-worth-reveals-day-childhood-happiness-crumbled-around/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>East
Anglican Time</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s
- background on Worth</span></span></li><li><a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a31977952/call-the-midwife-true-story/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Town
and Country</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/from-black-wall-street-to-allensworth.html#BookInfo" rel="" target="">Basic Information</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/from-black-wall-street-to-allensworth.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/from-black-wall-street-to-allensworth.html#Evaluation">Evaluation</a> : <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/from-black-wall-street-to-allensworth.html#BookReferences">Book References</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/from-black-wall-street-to-allensworth.html#GoodQuotes">Good Quotes</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/from-black-wall-street-to-allensworth.html#TableContents">Table of Contents</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/03/from-black-wall-street-to-allensworth.html#References">References</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-856c85ca-7fff-a783-0e21-a37ab3932b27" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Hedreich Nichols, Kelisa Wing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Libby from the Los Angeles Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Cherry Lake Press</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: 9781534199347</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: February 22, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: February 22, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">32 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: History, Interracial Understanding</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: None</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall: 3 out of 5</span></p><br />
<br />
<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Introduction:
Untold Stories of Black Wealth</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Book
will concentrate on places where Blacks have had success. Communities
where wealth was built. These communities fostered entrepreneurs,
politicians, inventors,, academicians and business owners.</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about a heritage in Africa where the art and sciences and military
and industry lead to great achievement. Talks about the greatness of
the African nations and then how Europeans kidnapped Africans and
made them slaves in American colonies.</span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
the book leaves out is if the African nations were so great, how did
they succumb to Europeans?</span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
1 The Sweet Auburn District, Atlanta, Georgia</u></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Herndon"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Alonzo
Herndon</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-freedman,
homeless without money. Started barber shops which served white men.
Then branched into insurance. Made his money there. Citizens Trust
Bank-H</span></span><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-review/article/abs/heman-e-perry-and-black-enterprise-in-atlanta-19081925/A67A795A08E374DF3819BEBEBB3E6850"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>erman
E Perry</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">’s
bank became the foundation of this district in Atlanta. </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about the area as thriving even now and is a protected historical
area. Notes that after the Civil War, a quarter of the Black
population died due to starvation and sickness.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Notes
that “shortly” after the Civil War Jim Crow laws forced Blacks
into segregated areas. (According to Wikipedia, the first laws were
in the 1870’s but came fully into effect after the Plessy Supreme
Court ruling of 1896.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
2 Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
Chicago’s South Side. The area was because of the Great Migration
from the South J</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Binga"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>esse
Binga</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
made the area’s prosperity possible. Provident Hospital was the
first Black owned and operated hospital. Trained Black doctors as
well as served the Blacks of the area. Quincy Jones was from that
area.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
3 The Fourth Avenue District, Birmingham, Alabama</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thriving
area of retail business, theaters, and offices. Three block area.
</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._G._Gaston"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>A.G.
Gaston</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
was an instigator of the area. Started as a funeral insurance and
branched out into construction, radio, banking, and a business
college. Its era ended when the Jim Crow era ended.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
4 Allensworth, California</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is the reason why I checked out the book. A bit disappointing as
there were only two pages and it was pretty bare bones. It talks
about Col </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Allensworth"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Allen
Allensworth</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
being the instigator of the town. Also how community and education
was valued.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
5 Black Wall Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about Greenwood, Tulsa and the 1921 riot. Greenwood was the
brainchild of </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.W._Gurley"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>O.W.
Gurley</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
A place where Blacks could be equal with one another. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
last page of this chapter lists other places such as New York’s
Harlem, Houston’s Third Ward, DC’s U St, …</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Black
Wealth in the United States Today</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
author explains that Black communities still face challenges today.
There are Black billionaires today. But previous laws block Blacks
from progressing through the layers to obtain wealth. Redlining was
one way. To the authors, it shows that prosperity is feasible and
can be found within their communities.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Making
a Way Out of NO WAY!</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about creating a vision board and journaling about their future.
Write about the world you want.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Extended
Your Learning</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Resources
for the audience.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br /><p align="left" style="break-after: auto; break-before: auto; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; page-break-before: auto; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
book was a mismatch on two counts with me. First, I had visited
Allensworth and was interested in finding more information on the
town. Second, the publisher's target audience was 5th through 8th
graders. So take this review with that in mind.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are five places in America which this book gives a summary about,
plus two chapters on Black wealth, and one on journaling. For each
of the five places, a summary of the accomplishments and people which
created the environment for a given particular location. Also how in
some places the prosperity did not last. Given that only about four
pages, and usually a paragraph per page, there is not much detail
given, only enough to whet an appetite.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
authors are concentrating more on motivating grade school children
that they too can rise above their current levels. But that is not
what this person was looking for. So it was not a good fit for me.</span></span></p> </div><div> </div><div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13613696-sick-from-freedom?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=IsWpUv2XTo&rank=1"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Sick
from Freedom</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Jim Downs</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Green
Power: The Successful Way of A.G. Gaston</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by A.G. Gaston</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: When we read about Black history,, we usually read about
moments connected with enslavement and oppression, or protests and
civil rights.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: Write or draw in your Justice Journal and create a vision for
your community. Dream big!!!</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Introduction:
Untold Stories of Black Wealth 4</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
1 The Sweet Auburn District, Atlanta, Georgia 8</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
2 Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois 12</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
3 The Fourth Avenue District, Birmingham, Alabama 16</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
4 Allensworth, California 20</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
5 Black Wall Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 24</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Black
Wealth in the United States Today 28</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Making
a Way Out of NO WAY! 31</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Extended
Your Learning 32</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's
</span></span><a href="https://cherrylakepublishing.com/shop/show/52995"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
</span></span><a href="https://hedreich.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Web
Site</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Allensworth-Century-Library-Justice-America/dp/1534199349"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hedreich-Nichols/author/B08R8FLGQV?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/from-black-wall-street-to-allensworth-hedreich-nichols/1139851768"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61301636-from-black-wall-street-to-allensworth?ref=nav_sb_ss_4_15"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20674887.Hedreich_Nichols"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/02/zero-fail-rise-and-fall-of-secret.html#Synopsis" target="_blank">Synopsis</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/02/zero-fail-rise-and-fall-of-secret.html#Characters" target="_blank">Characters</a> :
<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/02/zero-fail-rise-and-fall-of-secret.html#Expectations">Expectations</a> :
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<a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/02/zero-fail-rise-and-fall-of-secret.html#BookGroup">Book Group</a> :
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="BookInfo">Basic Information:</b></span> </span></span><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-5e61513f-7fff-d98b-789d-79918d8b0b8d" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author: Carol Leonnig</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edition: epub on Libby from the Mountain View Public Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Publisher: Random House</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ISBN: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9780399589010 (ISBN10: 0399589015)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Start Date: January 18, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Read Date: February 15, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">560 pages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Genre: History, Osher</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Language Warning: Moderate-Some violence, some language</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rated Overall:3 ½ out of 5</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1.4pt; margin-top: 1.4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">History: 3 out of 5</span></p><br />
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<b id="Synopsis">Synopsis (<span style="color: #cc0000;">Caution: Spoiler Alert</span>-Jump to <a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2023/02/zero-fail-rise-and-fall-of-secret.html#Thoughts">Thoughts</a>):</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
story of the Secret Service is told in five parts. There is a brief
history of how the Secret Service got into the protecting the
President business. Then the author talks about how both Kennedy and
the Secret Service failed each other, the relationship which Johnson
had and how Nixon used the Secret Service. Then the second part goes
from Ford to Clinton. She pays particular attention to when Reagan
was shot. Then there is a part for the younger Bush and a separate
one for Obama. She finally concludes with how Trump bent the Secret
Service for his own ends. Each part has how the Service failed each
President.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Characters">Cast of Characters:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Tim McCarthy-agent who saved Reagan’s life when John Hinkley tried to kill Reagan.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Larry Cockell-Agent who helped Leonnig put together the book.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Win Lawson-agent who was one of Kennedy’s guards</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">James Joseph Rowley, Jr-Secret Service chief when Kennedy was shot</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bobby DeProspero-second in command.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jerry Parr-In charge of Reagan’s presidential detail.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Dennis McCarthy-agent who took a bullet for Reagan</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">John Simpson-became the new director under Reagan</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Joe Petro-Replaced DeProspero</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">John Magaw-Became director during Bush, Sr last year in office.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Eljay Bowron-Became directory during Clinton’s first year</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Lew Merletti-Became directory about five years into Clinton’s time</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Brian Stafford-Became director during the Lewinsky time</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Larry Cockell-Black agent who was considered for director.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ralph Basham-Replaced Stafford as director</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Charles Baserap-new agent in 2005 who was asked for ideas on improving security</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Mark Sullivan-another director in 2006</span></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Pierson" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Julia Pierson</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-head of HR and then director. Short time when she became a fall person.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Keith Prewitt-Black, became Sullivan’s deputy director.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Vic Erevia-Atlanta field office agent in charge of it. Then got tapped for being the special agent in charge of the Presidential detail.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Dave Chaney-About to retire when he gets a chance to go to Columbia to prepare for Obama’s visit.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Greg Stokes-fellow supervisor with Chaney. On Columbia trip.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Prieto-agent who was an an affair with a foreign national</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Robin DeProspero-Phipot-ran the Security Clearance Division</span></li><li><a href="https://www.legistorm.com/person/bio/14831/Rachel_Wanner_Weaver.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rachel Weaver</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-staffer for Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Joseph Clancy-takes over as director after Pierson</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Kerry O’Grady-she had trouble with candidate Trump and spoke out.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Billy Callahan-acting director during Trump.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Randolph “Tex” Alles-director under Trump</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">James Murray-replaced Alles as director.</span></li></ul></div><div>
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<b id="Expectations">Expectations:<b></b></b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Recommendation: Osher Book Club</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When: November 28, 2022</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Date Became Aware of Book: November 28, 2022</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">How come do I want to read this book: Because it is a book the Osher Book Club is reading</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What do I think I will get out of it? History of the Secret Service</span></li></ul>
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<b id="Thoughts">Thoughts:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Several
articles caught my eye about President Biden’s relationship with
the Secret Service. A book by is the source of these articles. The
British magazine called</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
The Independent </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">has
a representative article:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span></span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-secret-service-major-dog-bite-b2252099.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Biden
won’t speak freely near Secret Service and thinks agents lied about
dog bite incident, book reveals</u></i></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
There is a level of distrust that Biden has, fearing that some
agents affinity for former President Trump may have a higher place to
them than serving the office and country.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author's
Note</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
started writing about the Secret Service in 2012 when several agents
were involved with prostitution and heavy drinking in South America.
This tarnished the image of the Service and started Leonnig on the
path to see how the Service operated and who were the agents. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
she developed this book, some of the agents, leaders and alumni felt
threatened. But it was Leonnig’s purpose to write </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
for the Secret Service’s front line and its future that I write
these hard truths. </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Those
who cooperated with her, most did it under the condition of
anonymity.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some
scenes are</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
reconstructed</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
from first hand accounts, based upon interviews, internal government
reports and memos. Dialogue is based upon people’s memories and
checked against other people’s memories.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Prologue</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Starts
with a current agent, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Brad
Gable</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-a
fake name, talking about why he became an agent. He was impressed by
Tim McCarthy’s dedication to saving Reagan during Hinckley’s
attack.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Counter
Assault Team-most dangerous assignment. Their motto about an attacker
is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dead
or Arrested.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
a training session, Gable tried to get feedback on how good the CAT
group was. The instructor. The instructor said that they could not
stop a real attack. Outdated weapons and tactics. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Increasingly,
the Secret Service was fulfilling its Zero Fail mission based not on
its skills, people, training, or technology, but on dumb luck.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This has been collaborated by many agents to the author. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
describe an organization stretched too thin, drowning in new
missions, and fraught with security risks brought on by a fundamental
mistrust between rank-and-file agents and leadership.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Leonnig
has found a rich history of bravery, heroism and incompetence. She
takes us through the last sixty years: Kennedy through Trump. This
is a concern for us as they keep us common citizens protected: by
protecting the president, they protect democracy.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
60 years, the agency has grown from 300 agents to 7,000 and a budget
from $5 million to $2.2 billion. They have been tasked with
protecting the president to now protecting family members, deputies
and political opponents.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
did the Secret Service go from an elite, hardworking band of patriots
vowing to do whatever it takes to protect future presidents in the
wake of JFK’s assassination, to a frat boy culture of infighting,
indulgence, and obsolescence?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>for
three years running had recently been ranked as the most hated place
to work in the federal government</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Leonnig
notes this is not a one administration problem, but one which has
been created over the 60 years.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
Secret Service was born out of a fundamental tension that lies at the
heart of American democracy: symbolism versus security.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Even after two presidential assassinations, there was a reluctance to
have a presidential security force-too much like the English
“royals”. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>America,
its presidents and its citizens, have taken the Secret Service for
granted in the past, too often with tragic results.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>1
The Tragedy that Birthed a New Secret Service Kennedy to Nixon
(1963-1974)</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
1 Protecting Lancer</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describes
a Kennedy rally in upstate New York through the eyes of Win Lawson,
an agent. Kennedy received three times as many threatening letters
than his predecessor. Kennedy was a very popular president. Who could
be against him? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
private, Kennedy’s Secret Service agents saw a man courting
danger…. He was also extremely reckless with his own personal
safety.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Typically,
the agents worked in six man teams, rotating eight hour shifts.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>New
agents were always sent first to a field office, but “keepers”
were summoned to the White House for a tryout on the detail within
one or two years.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
The Secret Service had a deal which bypassed normal hiring
requirements. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>As
part of the agreement, the Secret Service had to put these relatively
junior agents on the president’s detail within two years if the
Service wanted to keep them on the job.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a yin and yang of being an agent on the President’s guard. One
hand, it could be boring and uncomfortable. The other is that you
would see people whom you would only read about or see in a movie up
close. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about why the Secret Service started guarding Presidents-the McKinley
assassination in Buffalo. This was on top of duties to deter
counterfeiting. Talks about Lincoln’s death.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
2 Tempting the Devil</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kennedy
traveled and made many appearances. This stretched the Secret
Services abilities greatly. Hours stretched to being 16 hour days.
Requests for increases in personnel fell on deaf ears.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then there was Kennedy trying to elude his guards. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>For
anyone who cared to look more closely, the incident highlighted a
recklessness in Kennedy that some in the Secret Service had been
trying to discreetly contain.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kennedy
had a wild private side. As one agent said, i</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>f
we can’t trust the Secret Service to keep secrets, who can we
trust?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Our current president, Biden, has some doubts about the Secret
Service keeping secrets.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kennedy
would leave the White House in an unmarked car with a friend or
brother, without any agents. Nobody knew where he was. The agents had
mixed feelings about Kennedy. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
was truly a special guy,” said Paolella. “Whether it was the
queen of England or the housemaid, he would treat them the same way.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But with his dalliances, they were repulsed by it. Besides the
morality question, the concern was if the President was risking his
life or blackmail, wasn’t that their concern?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Win
Lawson headed to Dallas to do the advance preparation for Kennedy’s
Dallas trip. Kennedy would be making 22 stops in 9 states in less
than a week.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Service’s
Protective Research Section </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(PRS)
an index of individuals who might be a threat to the President.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Lawson checked the PRS, twice, there were no individual flagged in
the area. Later there was. It was a Georgia KKK man who was planning
something.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In
1962, at Kennedy’s request, Bouck installed a secret tape recording
system in the Oval Office. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a book,</span></span><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2018/11/listening-in.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
</u></span></span></span></a><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2018/11/listening-in.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u>Listening
In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy</u></i></span></span></span></a><a href="https://garys-books.blogspot.com/2018/11/listening-in.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">which
has his tapes transcribed. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
3 Three Shots in Dallas</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
advance group would try to do what they could do with limited staff
for the 22 cities being visited.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kennedy
sided with less protection so that he would be more open to people.
In the agents eyes this left him more vulnerable.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about the trip through Texas. Also talked about the heavy drinking at
a bar. The team at Dallas was lean in personnel. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describes
the reactions to the sound of rifle shots. It was over in a matter of
seconds. This was the first time in history which the Secret Service
lost a President.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Johnson
is now the President and is now the Secret Services chief concern.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
4 No Time to Grieve</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
scene at the airport when Air Force One comes in with President
Johnson and Kennedy’s body. Leonnig goes through and talks about
how the request for additional funding was met with contempt.
Vice-President Johnson had always felt like a back row player. And
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Now,
after nearly four hours as president, Johnson still felt second
string. This moment would bother him for a long time.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rowley</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
determined he would protect his agents and, to be sure, himself. He
would protect his beloved Secret Service by making a stronger one.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gives
a brief biography of Rowley.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
funeral was a protection nightmare. Jacquie Kennedy wanted to walk it
all, which would have forced both Johnson and other nation
dignitaries to also walk the route. She was convinced to shorten
the walk to eight blocks.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Story
came out that the agents had been drinking the night before. This
will be a pattern Leonnig follows throughout her book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rowley
instituted a couple of changes after the killing. He brought in
agents from other localities and mandated that buildings be checked
along the route before a President is on it. Second, they updated how
the PRS was done.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Funding
for additional hires and updating equipment was allowed by Congress.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Johnson
and the Secret Service did not have a good relationship. He
threatened to turn over security to the FBI. Which was ironics since
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>President
Theodore Roosevelt, furious at Congress meddling with federal
investigations, permanently transferred eight Secret Service agents
to a new unit, which eventually became the FBI.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Johnson micromanaged the Secret Service.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rowley
was interrogated about the late night drinking before the Kennedy
assassination. To the agents he was a hero since he took the blunt
part of the commission's targeting. I’</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>m
firing these guys. They completely failed.’ He never fired anyone.
He could have taken the low road and he didn’t. He protected the
agents without lying.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rowley
proposed a plan to upgrade the Service-which was like the plan before
Kennedy’s death. Johnson was not a fan of the plan. Congress
approved of the plan. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
5 One Last Day on the Trail</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
death of Robert Kennedy caused Johnson to include candidates for
President to be part of the Secret Services responsibility. Four
years later, George Wallace is running again and has agents assigned
to him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bremer,
who shot Wallace said “</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>I
want to do SOMETHING BOLD AND DRAMATIC, FORCEFUL & DYNAMIC, A
STATEMENT of my manhood for the world to see.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Bremer tried to kill Nixon, but security was too tight. So he went
after Wallace.Described the Secret Service’s tactics to scout out
crowds. Wallace would not have been shot if he had followed the
agents instructions to go to the car, instead he went to the barrier
to shake hands. Bremer shot him there, making Wallace a handicap for
the rest of his life.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
6 The President's Spies</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Nixon heard about the shooting of Wallace, he had two goals: to spy
on his opponents and to pin the blame on the left. To the first, he
wanted agents to “protect Edward Kennedy, the last remaining
Kennedy brothers, even though Kennedy was not running. Kennedy
accepted as a temporary measure. This lasted three weeks.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
the second goal, Nixon did not care what was being shown about
Bremer. “</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Screw
the record,” Nixon interrupted. “Just say he was a supporter of
‘that’ and ‘that’ and put it out.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Rowley’s agent got to the apartment first and had inventoried the
contents. Nixon was furious that the FBI had not gotten there first
or even better yet, Colson’s man had not been able to plant
evidence.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Secret Service felt this was another failure and tried to learn what
went wrong. It was realized that agents did not stay with the
candidate throughout the campaign and did not know how the candidate
worked.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nixon
wanted to use agents to spy on the candidates. He had a mole in one
of the agents who they wanted to spy on Kennedy. Hill, who had
guarded Jacqueline Kennedy, was suspicious of the request.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
episode also highlighted the way a president’s behavior can shape
and taint the Secret Service.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It is easy for a President to think he can override an agent or an
agency’s basic duties. In this case, the need for confidentiality
is paramount to the Secret Service.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nixon
also put improvements to his residence in San Clemente on the Secret
Service’s tab. He also used the Secret Service to stifle free
speech at his campaign rallies. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Larry
Newman, an agent working on the advance preparations, listened
incredulously in the hotel bar as a White House aide described the
plan to bring in “dummy” demonstrators to appear violent and
damage property. “ </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
In San Jose he purposely confronted and stirred up protesters. They
also tried to get the protesters to beat up the news personnel
following Nixon.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
Watergate exploded. Rowley was ordered to appear before the Watergate
Committee. Rowley resigned. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
hadn’t been able to fully stop Nixon from making the Secret Service
his tool.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
His replacement Stuart Knight promised to close the gap between
reality and the ideal.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Secret Service had installed a recording system on Nixon’s order.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>2
Meeting the Test Ford to Clinton (1974-1999)</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
7 A Casual Walk to Church</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
couple of months into his presidency, Reagan decides to walk across
the street to church, giving the Secret Service both a half an hour
notice and heartburn. To the Reagans, this was a breath of freedom.
They felt they were a bird in a gilded cage. Mike Deavers, who was
Reagan's right hand man and DeProsero argued back and forth on this.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before
Reagan came along, there was both Ford and Carter. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Nixon years had divided the ranks and emboldened Nixon detail agents
to form a secretive ring about the president and adopt his model of
distrust and arrogance with outsiders.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
This started turf snobbery with the White House agents claiming
superiority. Ford worked on tampering down the tension.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Knight
brought in non-cop/non-military people into the Service.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two
incidents during Ford’s time came close to having a repeat of
Kennedy. Lynette Fromme tried to take a shot at him, but was unable
to because of an agent. Within three weeks, Sara Jane Moore tried to
kill Ford. New rules on presidential security were drawn up to
tighten access. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carter
did not have any serious attempts on him. But he was cold to the
agents.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
a routine stop at the Hilton, Parr took the place of another agent to
get a better feel for how Reagan operated. The Hilton was a place
Presidents went to about once a month. Everything was choreographed.
As Reagan was emerging from the Hotel, Hinckley shot him, along with
another agent, McCarthy. The chaos of when anybody important is shot,
or for that matter when gunfire is involved with anybody. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
seven hours (?) of activity, Parr had a chance to stop, get a bite to
eat. A former agent said he thought that Parr saved the President’s
life. Parr</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
had agonized in little fitful moments in the hospital about what he
might have done wrong. He hadn’t stopped to think about all he had
done right.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
8 Battening Down the Hatches</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
saved Reagan was how the agents reacted. Their repetitive training
snapped into play and became a reflex action. The Secret Service has
a practice of analyzing every threat to figure out what they could do
better. The big question was, how did someone with a gun get that
close to the President and how to stop the next person? Bobby
DeProspero was charged with coming up with the answer.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gives
background on Bobby DeProspero.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">DeProspero
came up with 34 recommendations for improving security. Some of these
recommendations went against what Reagan's PR people wanted. When the
Pope was shot, it sealed the recommendations DeProspero wanted. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Secret Service’s best methods, agents often say, are developed in
the wake of a crisis, a teachable moment that exposes a weakness .</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>After
Kennedy was shot and killed, agents adopted a raft of changes </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
and after Wallace, a similar thing. This seems to me that there is a
sense of being reactive instead of constantly evaluating the current
status and upgrading.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
9 Night of the Long Knives</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
power struggle between those who wanted to go beyond strength and
manliness to using intelligence to prevent harm to a President, vs
the more traditional way the Service operated. Knight was the one
which appreciated tradition, but wanted to include more modern ways
of protecting the President.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Knight
commissioned a study of agents. He found professionalism and
dedication. He also found a high degree of stress.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Knight’s
rival got promoted to being his boss. Knight retired and Simpson took
his place. This led to the purge of some supervisors and promotion of
friends of Powis and Simpson. This was known as the Night of the Long
Knives.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Secret Service was then put into small camps. How Reagan chose these
people put him favoring one camp over the other. He probably was just
choosing who he felt comfortable with.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
training center for agents opened. It was named after Rowley.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>OF
ALL THE people who lived through the Hilton shooting, Reagan seemed
the least fazed by the attack.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
10 A Happy Service, A Rising Threat</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During
Bush’s time, it was felt he had the best relationship with the
Secret Service. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>His
father, who became a U.S. senator, had instilled in his son the creed
of well-off WASPs: “Of those to whom much is given, much is
expected.”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Agents were treated like family. Their own families were invited to
events. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>That’s
unbelievable, that the most powerful man in the world would think
enough of other people to delay his vacation by twenty-four or
forty-eight hours just so other people could be with their families,”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about Bush’s background.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
the fall of Communist Poland, Bush was going to a place in northern
New York which had a large concentration of Polish people. But it was
terrible from a security perspective. Too many ways he could be
targeted from and no clean line of escape. He was being followed by
an Army veteran who would try to kill him. But he could not get
beyond the magnetometers. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Secret Service commissioned a study called the </span></span><a href="https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/preventing-assassination-secret-service-exceptional-case-study-project"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Exceptional
Case Study Project</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
to help understand the type of people who would try to kill a
President.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Secret Service’s main way of protecting the President, even at the
start of the 1990’s was seat and muscle. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
“Let’s throw bodies at the problem,’ ” explained a former
senior agent. “No strategy. Just reaction.”</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
11 A Rook Star President</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Agents
were now assigned to Clinton. They noticed there were times he was
not to have an agent with him. This caused a similar anguish which
Kennedy caused the Service. Clinton was meeting women.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Magaw
was not trusted by the Clintons. When Clinton was elected, the Secret
Service restricted his movements. Magaw was dumped to a Treasury job
and Eljay Bowron was brought in.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bill
Clinton was eventually liked; Hilary CLinton was detested. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
Mrs. Clinton became the Secret Service’s least popular First Lady
on record…. She was the person in that crew who would cut a
person’s heart out.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
On the other hand, when an agent mistook her for a staffer, Clinton
was OK with that.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clinton’s
frequent womanizing was demoralizing the agents. They felt
uncomfortable covering for him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
plane crashed at the White House-Clinton was away. There was no
warning of this. There was no plane in place if aircraft ignored the
rules about flying in the restricted airspace around the White House.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another
close call is when a convicted felon fired 29 shots from an automatic
rifle at the White House. Clinton was not in danger. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
group between the White House and the Secret Service came up with
recommendations to upgrade, including monitoring the FAA radar.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
12 The Intern</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Monica
Lewinsky. Enough said. Secret Service agents were questioned about
what they saw/knew.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>3
Terror and Politics The Bush Years (2000-2007)</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
13 Scrambling on 9/11</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shows
what happened on 9/11 to President Bush. One thing, the Secret
Service got the warning about incoming planes to the Washington area.
But the message never made it to those in command. Bush was in
Florida with a class of second graders. White House staffers wanted a
few more minutes to wrap up. Agents were thinking of seconds.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
the White House, when it was learned of the planes heading towards
Washington, the White House was calmly evacuated. Some agents with
rifles were told and did go to the roof-possibly their last
assignment. There was a hole in the plan. The Vice President’s
detail did not have authorization to go into the secure bunker at the
White House. It took a minute to get that rectified. It came close to
being a minute where Cheney could have been killed.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There
is a line of demarcation in the Service: before and after 9/11.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Before it was unimaginable that a jetliner could crash into the White
House. Now it was something or something like it to be planned for.
They now plan to get the President airborne as soon as possible and
that no staffer can override them. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
comes back to the fact that the policies and procedures of the Secret
Service are born out of blood,” he</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
[Jonathan Wackrow]</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
said. “The Service will get better once it’s tested. Every time
it is tested, it gets better.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9/11
day ended for the President when an unidentified plane was in the
White House vicinity. Turned out it was an F16 returning to base.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
14 "You Don't Belong Here"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Analysis
of what went wrong on 9/11. Senator Lieberman recommended and pushed
for a new department which would encompass all of the country’s
federal intelligence and protective power, except for the military.
Eventually this came into being as the Department of Homeland
Security. The Secret Service was put under this umbrella.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
news report published an article on Secret Service bad behavior. This
behavior could make an agent susceptible to blackmail. In the
meantime, Black agents had filed a lawsuit claiming that Blacks were
being passed over for promotion. Stafford was forced out as
director. But his recommendations for his replacement were not
heeded. Ralph Basham was selected as his replacement.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
15 "He Predicted All of it"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charles
Baserap who guarded the White House, was asked for suggestions on
improving security. He came up with several pages of recommendations.
Julia Pierson talked with him about it. But the higher ups felt it
was completely out of line. But the memo was spread throughout the
force. It got an unofficial name: Uniformed Division Officer’s
Manifesto.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Baserap
was now a marked man. Instead of backing down, he went further. He
did a survey of all 136 White House officers on their thoughts on the
complex’s protocols and weaknesses. He called it </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Secret Service State of the Union.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
It basically agreed with his manifesto. Just a day or two before he
was to become permanent, he was let go for a sick leave violation.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
is evident that the leadership only wanted their own ideas. Also they
did not want at some later date an investigation to show they were
told and did not follow through.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>4
The Wheels Come Off The Obama Years (2008-2015)</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
16 "He'll Be Shot Sure As Hell"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Obama
as candidate and President. There were strong concerns for his
safety. Leonnig said that Obama was the most endangered president in
history. The reason: racism. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>So
you know, you can’t…you know, you can’t make decisions based on
fear and the possibility of what might happen</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
- Michelle Obama. She was putting on a brave face in front of her
fears.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
were people who wanted to kill him. But the politics of it were that
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
idea that some people want to do harm to Barack Obama, that cuts
against our narrative.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
But even before the primaries and caucuses started, there were
threats mailed to his Senate email and talk on the Internet.In May
2007 Obama got Secret Service protection due to Harry Reid’s and
Dick Durbin’s intervention.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
were outside threats. But there was also a question of how racist the
Secret Service was. Black agents found a noose in the training
facility. Then there was the Black officers' lawsuit. And then the
jokes at Black’s expense. And then when a plot was discovered, it
was dismissed as not being serious.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
17 Sullivan's Drew</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
reign of Director Mark Sullivan. Leonnig’s conclusion is that his
seven years as Director left the Service weaker than he started with.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about who Sullivan was. He seemed focused on the next promotions.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>That
guy will act like your friend to your face, but behind your back,
he’ll be talking about you so he can help himself.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Basham recommended that Sullivan become the next Director when he
took on the Border Patrol. The issue with Sullivan is that he did not
build a strong second level, the “bench”. Sullivan did promote a
Black, Prewitt. But he also promoted two men who were “good Ol’
boys” who had been flagged as engaging with porn.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
message which Sullivan sent was that loyalty and connections were
more important than competency or morality. On the other hand,
Pierson was pushed aside because she had flagged some of Sullivan’s
people’s issues.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another
issue was the Service keeping up with the technology. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Despite
the Service’s image as a James Bond operation, the Service was
sputtering along on ancient technologies, storing some of its most
important information in 1980s-era computers.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>AFTER
THE DIRECTOR, the most powerful embodiment of the Secret Service is
the special agent in charge of the president’s detail. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Erevia
was chosen and became personal friends with Obama. A lot of times
this position becomes the Director. It gets down to, does the
President like this person? </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>They
aren’t considering management skills, or the ability to craft a
strategic vision. Instead, they all inevitably ask themselves the
same question: Who makes me most comfortable.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Michelle
Obama changed how the Secret Service covered the First Lady. People
responded to her. Her security came to a head when a homeless guy was
able to get to her door in a hotel in Los Angeles. Nothing happened.
But the guy got too close for comfort.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
18 The Night Bullets Hit the White House</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
gunman fired at the White House. The Obama’s were out, but the
children and Michelle Obama’s mother were there. The Secret Service
was responding, then was told to stand down, they heard a car
backfiring. But people on the street heard and knew it was gun fire.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
response from the Secret Service was confusion about what was
happening and what the car involved was. Even the next morning, the
Secret Service did not know that the White House was the target. When
the Service started realizing there could have been a shooting and
that the target was the White House, they tried to keep it quiet,
even from their own staff. It was a couple of days later did the
Secret Service realize it was an assassination. Michelle Obama was
not told and was furious when she found out. The President was right
behind her in being upset, both how it was handled and how the First
Family found out. Sullivan survived.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
19 "I Woke Up to a Nightmare"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about Chaney and then the partying going on in preparation for a
visit by Obama. He and another supervisor got involved with
prostitutes. One of the agents who was also in Columbia stiffed a
prostitute. This led to an incident which exploded. Because the
prostitute got the police involved, Columbia notified the American
embassy. This led to implicating a whole group of people.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
top of that, the conference which Obama was going to, one of the
topics was sexplotation. There were 22 men involved after counting
the Secret Service, Special Forces and explosive ordnance teams. The
Secret Service personnel were sent back to the States. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chaney
told his wife what had happened.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note:
This is the story which Leonnig first covered on the Secret Service.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
20 Sullivan's Struggles</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sullivan
was in trouble over Columbia, Hookergate. He was in damage control.
The image of an honorable agency versus the actuality of something
along the lines of a frat boy house was exposed. It was decided those
who paid prostitutes would be fired and those who had one night
stands would be disciplined.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chaney
was given a date, just after his retirement date to quit. He took it.
His partner, Stokes had four years. Stokes tried blackmailing the
Service by saying he knew where the skeletons were who acted just as
bad or worse than him.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sullivan
was warned by Congress not to hide other embarrassing information as
it would be worse later on. There were other incidents, numerous ones
which the Director did not allude to and did try to hide.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
21 Outed</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stokes’
hearing on if he was going to be fired. He felt he knew where the
skeletons were buried and would expose them. Stokes was looking for
consistency in how punishment was given.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
led to an agent, Prieto, updating his security clearance form to show
he was in a relationship with a foreign national-Prieto was also
married. DeProspero-Philpot whose job it was to screen security
clearances felt this needed to be investigated. With a polygraph
test, Prieto showed he was hiding information. Prieto committed
suicide.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Management
felt that Prieto’s death was Stokes fault, not theirs. It turned
out that Prieto had more than one lover and had been taking trips out
of the country without reporting it.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stokes
was terminated.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>files
synchronized between devices</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-I
do not know how this works. But from the book, there were encrypted
photos found on Prieto’s phone. When they compared it to other
devices they were able to see what the photos were.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
22 A New Sheriff in Town</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rachel
Weaver, staff from Senator Johnson’s office, started looking into
what was going on with the Secret Service. The Inspector General was
to issue a report. But after five months, the investigators had not
been allowed to look at some of the basic documents, such as billings
or been able to interview staff in Columbia. Even in the report,
there were red flags starting on page two. It cited misbehavior in
other countries as well. Johnson released the information in a press
conference.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
is the difference between lying and not telling the full truth?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sullivan
was retiring and recommended David O’Connor to replace him. Pierson
was second choice. But an old email where O’Connor made a racist
remark torpedoed him. Pierson was then named director.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
23 A Listing Ship</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pierson
was the first female director. The country’s leadership hoped she
could reform the Secret Service. But there were those who felt they
had been shorted and hamstrung her. But her first task was to get
money as the Service was down 600 positions and was losing a hundred
each year. She caught the attention of the White House budget
director and he was able to find another $37 million dollars in short
term funds.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Within
a couple of months, another episode of bad-boy behavior came to
confront her. And then another. And then another.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now
that she had funds, she was set on hiring and training new agents.
But she was only getting half of the people hired? Why? A new hiring
system did not work. And people were being stretched to their limits.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
started to transfer managers out. This caused resentment. People
started working on taking her down.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then Rachel Weaver was still investigating. She got the report on
Columbia published and showed the inspector general watered down the
report. He retired. She then changed jobs and worked for a
congressman who was interested in the Secret Service escapades.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Timing
is everything in life, and something unfathomable was about to happen
in downtown Washington</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
24 "He's in the House"</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
lone man entered the White House grounds and even got inside the
White House. The President and his family had left for the weekend.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
the President gone, there was a relaxed air to the remaining agents.
In this case, everything which could go wrong, did. Leonnig goes
through what went wrong: communications, positioning, the person hit
a seam between stations, the canines who were to tackle intruders did
not, and officers who were in position to stop the intruder did not.
Within 30 seconds the intruder made it into the White House.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
this was not the end of the issues for Pierson. A couple of days
before, a security guard had not been screened and was in an elevator
with a gun. Pierson did not tell the President and did not come clean
with a Congressional panel.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pierson
was forced to resign. Clancy took over. Her boss knew it was some of
her senior staff who failed her.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>5
Sliding Backward The Trump Years (2016-2021)</b></u></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
25 Clancy's Turn</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>From
his old job as counsel in the Defense Department, Johnson had come to
value the leadership presence that generals exuded. Not only were
they able to command action from their subordinates, the best ones
were able to build an esprit de corps that made soldiers race to
follow them into battle and seek to prove their worth.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clancy
had Obama’s ear and wanted the job. He was clean, but had not held
an administrative job. Would he be able to clean up the Secret
Service?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Within
two weeks, the first episode of things went bad.Two high level
officers had been drinking and came back to the White House to pick
up their car. They ran a blockade. This eventually got leaked to
Leonnig. But Clancey had not been told.When questioned by Congress,
Clancey would not let his senior officials testify nor would he talk
about the details. This infuriated Congress. They noted that
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>President
Obama’s life was in danger thanks to “an agency at war with
itself.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
then things got worse. One of the agents typed in a Congressman’s
name into a master index. It popped up Then the rumor made its rounds
at the Secret Service how the Congressman was rejected as an agent
and was getting his revenge. This should have been confidential
information. This embarrassed not only the Secret Service but
Homeland Security.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He
barely remembered applying, but he wondered what else the Secret
Service was capable of.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clancy
was hired to clean up the agency. Instead he was either incompetent
in the director role or lying to Congress. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Father
Joe’s attempts to restore honor to the Service weren’t working</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
26 Chaos Candidate</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trump,
the candidate.Trump instigated confrontation. Since the Secret
Service was there, when protesters were being attacked, what was the
agent’s role?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
to complicate things, many agents were privately cheering on Trump.
Remember, he was running against Hilary Clinton, the most disliked
First Lady in Secret Service history.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talks
about agent O’Grady who spoke out against Trump. She was met with
hostility within the Service. This included her being investigated.
She was demoted. When other agents were disgusted by Clinton, there
was not a similar treatment.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chaos
within the administration, particularly the Secret Service. Trump’s
habits and desires stretched the agency thing, such as designating
Trump Towers his home, guarding it and updating security was costly.
Then Trump was trying to cut the US budget, including the Secret
Service. But he did not want any lessening of security.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
being stretched thin led to security lapses.One person made it onto
the grounds and was able to make his way almost to the building
before being apprehended. General Kelly, head of Homeland, found out
about it through the early morning news. The Service was not giving
Kelly any answers. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
fence is the same size, technology is obviously failing, the training
must not be working. It’s a fundamental failure on every level.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two
agents took selfies of Trump’s grandson. Another embarrassment.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trump
wanted good looking agents on his team.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Chapter
27 Taking a Hit for Trump</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trump
failed on his campaign promise. He promised that he would not have
time to play golf like Obama had. Trump had traveled more often for
pleasure and played golf more often than Obama had. Trump’s travel
caused the Secret Service to rack up bills.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
new director was needed. Trump resisted naming one, being content to
have an acting one. Kelly wanted Alles, a retired Marine general.
Being an outsider, the agents did not embrace him. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trump
made decisions without consideration for expense.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
there was a Russian woman in the Moscow embassy who may have been
spying on the embassy. Alles was not kept up to date. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
deputy director and [assistant directors] withhold a lot of
information from the director to sabotage his agenda, just like they
did to former director Julia Pierson.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Epilogue</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trump
and his family wanted Alles out. Also they wanted to Kelly out as
well because of denying Kushner Top Secret clearance.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>But
as had been the case in previous administrations, President Trump and
his family weren’t looking for an executive to be a steward for the
Secret Service and chart its strategic mission. They were looking for
the comfort of someone with proven loyalty to them.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alles
was making progress in hiring. But when Kelly left, his replacement,
Nielsen was told that Alles should be let go. This marked another
failed try to reform the Secret Service. He got the hiring system to
start working. Also he tried to get them from survival to strategic
thinking. They hired James Murray. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
former agent commented on the current status of the Service: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It
was a lack of strategic, professional management of an agency whose
mission knows no pause. Most directly, the selection of supervisors
and senior agency leadership has been disastrous.</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Agents
are rewarded for loyalty, not competence. Even as their management
reached retirement age, there is a race to capitalize on the Secret
Service name and get a high paying job in a Fortune 500 company.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Service reflects the President which they service, to some extent.
You could see it in the Bush’s, Clintons and Obama’s. But with
Trump, it became evident that he was bending them in a way to conform
with his sense of power. They were being used not only to protect his
image, but also to increase his wealth. For example, every time he
played golf, the government spent money at his properties for food
and lodging. But not only for him, but all of his entourage. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
was a place where Trump crossed a line. When there was a protest and
some of the protesters crossed into the White House grounds, Trump
and his family were moved to a secure room. Next day, Trump said the
next time, the Secret Service would use vicious dogs and ominous
weapons to hurt them and that the agents were just waiting to use
them. Many agents wanted nothing to do with this. They noted that
they were there to protect democracy and our government, not to
attack protesters.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
Trump used NPS and the Secret Service to forcibly clear Trump’s way
to a church, this raised a divide among the agents. One wanted to use
a fire house like in the 1960’s race protests in the South. This
got a large and vocal response from other agents. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Later
when Biden was President-elect, there was a refusal by the Service to
give Biden full protection as past President-elects had been given.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“It
appears the Service for some reason is picking a side. I don’t know
how the Service recovers from crossing this line</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
led to Biden having doubts about how non-partisan the Secret Service
was/is. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Leonnig’s
conclusion was that the Secret Service has not kept up with
technology. That it has been short changed for the past 20+ years or
more. And that they have been used by Presidents to further their own
Presidencies rather than being non-partisan.</span></span></p>
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<b id="Evaluation">Evaluation:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carol
Leonnig is a writer for the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Washington
Post</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
Part of her beat was to cover the Secret Service. Over time, she
built up contacts who would feed her inside information about the
Secret Service. This included both its screw-ups and its internal
in-fighting. While her initial articles were on HookerGate, the
fiasco in Columbia during Obama’s time, the book really starts 60
years before with Kennedy. She walks us through each President’s
relationship and how the Secret Service both protected them and
failed them.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the things which Leonnig brings up is how stretched the Service
is. She talks about how a few agents were assigned to Roosevelt on
the sly after McKinley’s killing to now covering the President full
time, his family, his extended family, major Presidential candidates,
foreign heads of state, and not to mention the White House grounds
and places these people will be going to. Their staff and budget has
not grown in proportion to the tasks assigned. This has stretched the
agency, causing agents to work at least half of their days off.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
there are also failures where the Services metaphorically shoots
itself. This is what Leonnig brings up over and over and over again.
HookerGate was more of a culmination of culture than a one off. The
author goes through many episodes of heavy drinking a few hours
before these agents are to protect the President. She goes over how
agents covet an overseas assignment as a time to be wild frat boys.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
mostly, Leonnig shows us that this insular culture of the Secret
Service has a hard time being reformed, either on the inside or front
he outside. When you have the ear of the most powerful person on the
planet, it is easy to tell your story and make your case.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
one last concern which is laid out is how easily the Secret Service
can be politicalized. This came to a head during the Trump years. But
I suspect all Presidents have used the agency to some extent. It is
almost impossible. It is just that with Trump, it was more
pronounced.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
this is where I think the book lacks a bit. The author, after laying
out the problems and failings of the Secret Service, really does not
address how it can return to its sterling reputation. How to reform
it is not discussed. She talks about Obama saying more diversity is
needed. I do not think that really solves the core issues of agents
being disrespectful of their position, shortage of funds,
politicization of the agency, falling behind in technology, and turf
wars.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read
the book and understand that the Secret Service is fallible. It is a
long book, but written so that you will want to read it and be aware
of the people who guard our leaders.</span></span></p>
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<br />
<b id="BookGroup">Notes from my book group:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Leonnig
says that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the
Secret Service was born out of a fundamental tension that lies at the
heart of American democracy: symbolism versus security.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What does she mean by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>symbolism
versus security?</i></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>America,
its presidents and its citizens, have taken the Secret Service for
granted in the past. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
What do you think about the Secret Service? What functions did you
see them performing before reading this book? Afterwards? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
the President travels, the Presidential detail also goes with the
President. Describe the benefits and negatives of traveling with a
President.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Presidents
travel for many reasons. What security considerations are there when
a President travels? How can Presidents help alleviate security
concerns? How can they circumvent the security?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
agent said, i</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>f
we can’t trust the Secret Service to keep secrets, who can we
trust?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
To what extent did the various Presidents trust their agents? Are
there situations where agents should reveal what the President said
or did?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
agents were heavy drinkers and/or took advantage of travel to be with
women. Why do you think this happened? Was it the stress on the job?
The type of person who was attracted to being in the Secret Service?
… Do you think the agent’s behavior affected their ability to
protect the person whom they were assigned to? Do you think they
thought it affected their job performance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did directors and/or managers in the Secret Service try to reign in
bad behavior? How successful were they? Why did they fail in many
cases? What changes would you have made? Did their managers try that?
What was the result?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Secret Service’s best methods, agents often say, are developed in
the wake of a crisis, a teachable moment that exposes a weakness.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Discuss this statement. How could the agency be more proactive in
their changes? What kind of culture is needed for an organization to
be proactive?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
can Presidents bend the Secret Service to their own purposes? What
stops them from doing that?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can
the Secret Service always stop a determined person from killing a
President?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
do you want your life to change because you read this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many
of these questions are either from or adapted from </span></span><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>LitLovers.</u></span></span></span></a></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
the title of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Zero
Fail</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Did
the ending seem fitting? Satisfying? </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every
book has a world view. Were you able to identify this book’s world
view? What was it? How did it affect the book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
do you think the author wrote this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
would you ask the author if you had a chance?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
“takeaways” did you have from this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are
there solutions which the author presents?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
they seem workable? Practicable?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
would you implement them?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Describe
the culture talked about in the book.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
economic or political situations are described?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does
the author examine economics and politic?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
did this book affect your view of the world?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
questions did you ask yourself after reading this book?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Talk
about specific passages that struck you as significant—or
interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...?</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
was memorable?</span></span></p></div><p></p><p><br /></p><div>
<b id="BookReferences">Book References:</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Day Lincoln Was Shot </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by
James Bishop</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The
Making of the President 2016</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
by Roger Stone</span></span></li></ul>
</div><div>
<br />
<b id="GoodQuotes">Good Quotes:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First
Line: When I began reporting on the United States Secret Service in
2012, this unique law enforcement agency was rocked by what seemed
like the most humiliating scandal in its modern history: A dozen
agents and officers stood accused of turning a presidential trip to a
South American resort town into a kind of Vegas bachelor party,
complete with heavy drinking and prostitutes.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
Line: It should haunt us all.</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">you
can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what
might happen. Michelle Obama, Newsweek, November 17, 2008. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>How
He Did It</i></span></span></li></ul>
</div><div><b id="TableContents"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="TableContents">Table of Contents:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author's
Note ix</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prologue
xiii</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1
The Tragedy that Birthed a New Secret Service Kennedy to Nixon
(1963-1974)</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
1 Protecting Lancer 3</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
2 Tempting the Devil 27</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
3 Three Shots in Dallas 46</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
4 No Time to Grieve 75</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
5 One Last Day on the Trail 106</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
6 The President's Spies 130</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2
Meeting the Test Ford to Clinton (1974-1999)</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
7 A Casual Walk to Church 163</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
8 Battening Down the Hatches 203</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
9 Night of the Long Knives 221</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
10 A Happy Service, A Rising Threat 240</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
11 A Rook Star President 262</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
12 The Intern 308</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3
Terror and Politics The Bush Years (2000-2007)</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
13 Scrambling on 9/11 339</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
14 "You Don't Belong Here" 369</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
15 "He Predicted All of it" 389</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4
The Wheels Come Off The Obama Years (2008-2015)</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
16 "He'll Be Shot Sure As Hell" 409</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
17 Sullivan's Drew 430</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
18 The Night Bullets Hit the White House 447</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
19 "I Woke Up to a Nightmare" 466</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
20 Sullivan's Struggles 493</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
21 Outed 513</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
22 A New Sheriff in Town 536</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
23 A Listing Ship 552</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
24 "He's in the House" 581</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5
Sliding Backward The Trump Years (2016-2021)</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
25 Clancy's Turn 621</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
26 Chaos Candidate 650</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter
27 Taking a Hit for Trump 686</span></span></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Epilogue
709</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Acknowledgments
735</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Notes
741</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Index
783</span></span></li></ul>
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<b id="References">References:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher's</span></span><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543941/zero-fail-by-carol-leonnig/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
Web Site</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Book</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia-</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_D._Leonnig"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Fail-Rise-Secret-Service/dp/0399589015"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazon-</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Carol-Leonnig/author/B083JKWH8N?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/zero-fail-carol-leonnig/1137493432"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Barnes
and Noble</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55057586"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Book</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GoodReads-</span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14045704.Carol_Leonnig"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Author</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">New
York Times </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/books/review/carol-leonnig-zero-fail.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
- by Chris Whipple who wrote his own book which touches on Biden and
the Secret Service</span></span></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Washington
Post </span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-frat-boy-culture-of-the-secret-service/2021/05/12/0a8c238e-a205-11eb-a774-7b47ceb36ee8_story.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rutgers
University</span></span><a href="https://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/zero-fail-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-secret-service/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Guardian’s </span></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/29/zero-fail-review-us-secret-service-carol-leonnig-trump-biden-agents"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NPR
</span></span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/05/17/997377737/underfunded-and-overworked-secret-service-fears-theyre-relying-on-luck"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kirkus
</span></span><a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/carol-leonnig/zero-fail/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://deadline.com/2021/08/carol-leonnig-zero-fail-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-secret-service-book-adapted-television-1234813688/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Deadline</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">YouTube</span></span></li><ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">CSpan
</span></span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?511585-1/zero-fail-rise-fall-secret-service"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Review</u></span></span></span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HGtDrPZ3q4"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Interview</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul><li>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">White
House Historical Association-</span></span><a href="https://www.whitehousehistory.org/videos/zero-fail-a-history-of-the-secret-service"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>YouTube</u></span></span></span></a></li></ul>
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