Puddle Splasher's Literary Traveler LbNA #28876 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Puddle-Splasher  |
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| Plant date: | Feb 10, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | ??? |
| County: | Tarrant |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | ??? |
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| Last found: | Mar 3, 2007 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | Feb 10, 2007 |
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"Canoes are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as part of its own silence... you like or dislike quiet things - sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in mountains... chances for being quiet nowadays are limited. Those being unquiet seem to abound. But I saw a coon waddling along the riverside path that afternoon, and an old boar squirrel tightwalked unsuspecting down a branch just ahead of the boat, and having skipped lunch I shot him for supper." John Graves
In November 1957, Graves set out to travel by canoe with his dog, the passenger, to say goodbye. To whom or what was he saying goodbye?
"Canoes are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as part of its own silence... you like or dislike quiet things - sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in mountains... chances for being quiet nowadays are limited. Those being unquiet seem to abound. But I saw a coon waddling along the riverside path that afternoon, and an old boar squirrel tightwalked unsuspecting down a branch just ahead of the boat, and having skipped lunch I shot him for supper." John Graves
In November 1957, Graves set out to travel by canoe with his dog, the passenger, to say goodbye. To whom or what was he saying goodbye?