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goodbye to 48th street
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white is moving, talks about how hard it is to through things away
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homecoming
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fire place is on fire, calls fire department, talks about Maine in comparison to how deVoto described it, hunting deer, familiarity gives meaning
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a report in spring
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buys a puppy, in the city on the break from the country, talks about raccoon
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death of a pig
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white's pig gets sick, calls around to ask for remedies, happens on a day where he actually has dinner plans, fred guards the dying pig
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the eye of edna
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hurricane edna is coming as anticipated by the radio broadcasts, doesn't immediately see effect of the storm, phone and power lines go out
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coon tree
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watches the raccoon outside his house, lives in the tree outside his window, the raccoon has to leave her kittens alone while looking for food, eats corn, white would choose a raccoon over corn, kitchen is modernized but he prefers the old, the struggle between modern versus old, nuclear reactors and atomic radiation, the raccoon is free from those issues
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a report in january
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life is a full time job, war with a fox, deer hunting season, a beach in florida has been developed, all natural raising of hens, days are short, orders silver cross chicks
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the winter of great sorrows
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seagulls dont eat smelt, snow covers everything, snow plows plow everything but the driveways, education - the students go to school in town instead of the island but mainland doesnt have a high school, oil development - local and environmental concerns, pollution, town meeting, pipe discards garbace into the harbor
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riposte
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brown eggs vs white eggs, stuck up englishman
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the geese
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mama goose dies leaving three eggs with no one to sit on them, white buys 2 geese 1 gander, the older gander impregnates the 2 geese but doesnt let the young gander near the girls, the two ganders fight for the right to be the father, apathy doesnt lay fertile eggs so white gives liz's eggs
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letter from the east
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plant seeds are expensive, warns about change (pollution, etc), wedding, tarzan story, hospital renovations, mining company makes a dam and then farms salmon, oyster farming, the henhouse became a studio, thieves, planes, oil, contradiction of saving fuel but simultaneously wasting it, nuclear power, the town of Eastport,
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bedfellows
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fred is dead but white still feels his presence, in bed with republicans and democrats, democracy, eisenhower, new york prayer case, the constitution is to protect the uncomfortable,
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sootfall and fallout
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actual sootfall from pollution, mans contamination of the planet, nuclear fallout with a and h bombs, radiation, fears of atomic energy, atom/pollution/nuclear endeavors are hurting humans while ultimately trying to save humans and make them safe
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unity
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peace talks and the united nation, fear of communism, disarmament is a mirage, weapons are not the cause of the problem, treaties are worthless without fear to honor them, the west understands liberty while communists understand unity
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the world of tomorrow
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worlds fair, perisphere, white is sick, feels lonely, dystopian vibe, nice exhibitions with fancy architecture, long elevator, cant stop change from happening, everything is electric nothing is authentic,
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here is new york
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nyc, population and activities, in the city surrounded by everything but at the same time insulated from every event, three different new yorks; the one of someone born and raised, one of the commuter, one on a quest, the city is like a poem, the city is \"implausible\"
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on a florida key
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description of floridas name, whiskey and the negro, dying oranges orange, black and white separation in theater, northerners vs southerners, the sea and florida
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the ring of time
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girl at the ringling circus, young and pretty, acrobats and horses, time does not stop for anyone even the girl on the horse, girl did average trick, the south is cruel, colored people wouldnt be welcomed at the southern beaches, urge in florida to duck the passages of time
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what do our hearts treasure?
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christmas in florida is different from up north, white and wife are away from home at christmas, wife keeps crying, doesn't feel christmassy, melancholy/depressed tone,
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afternoon of an american boy
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white liked girls but he was always to nervous and insecure to talk to them like other boys would, thought they wouldnt find him attractive, took eileen the sister of parnell to dance at the plaza, went badly and awkwardly, haunts him
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farewell my lovely
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model T ford, nothing quite like it, once you bought it you always bought extra parts for it
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the years of wonder
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worked on poems and other writings for columns, trip to alaska, went on a ship called the Buford, tried to remain entertained on the ship, alaska was not what the passengers had imagined it to be, got a job on the ship, president harding dies,
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once more to the lake
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takes his son to the lake house that he and his father used to visit, they go fishing, he feels a dual experience as he sees himself as himself but also as his father, storm
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the sea and the wind that blows
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boats, \"cruel beauty\" of the sea and sailing that frightens and intrigues him
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the railroad
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railroads, horses are slow, planes,
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the st. nicholas league
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league of creative people, poets
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a slight sound at evening
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walden by thoreau, reflecting on it in honor of its 100th birthday,
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some remarks on humor
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laughing, humor, satire, humorists are actually depressed like everyone else, writers are afraid to be humorous lest they are not taken seriously, pronunciation of words,
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don marquis
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archy and mehitabel by don marquis, cockroach,
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will strunk
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mosquitos, the elements of style by will strunk, tries to right down rules and principles of English,
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