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The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...
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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Though we pass them by today...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

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To: Corin Stormhands

Didn't you ever have to read the first book for school or something?

And anyway, everyone but Anne figures out what's going to happen by the end of the first book, she just needs another five volumes to get around to it.


4,521 posted on 01/11/2005 11:28:48 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

It's a part of history that was a blank for me - and I really felt like that made it more real.


4,522 posted on 01/11/2005 11:29:34 AM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton

I haven't read any of them recently. All the Anne books are at home for... um, I'm not sure who. Future grandchildren, possibly, since I don't see the bothers reading them. Same for the Lousia May Alcott collection.


4,523 posted on 01/11/2005 11:29:48 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

Funny, that is exactly my daughter's take. She said she always loved the dialogue, and when the format changed to Anne's letters, it just twern't the same.


4,524 posted on 01/11/2005 11:30:01 AM PST by thesearethetimes...
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To: Corin Stormhands
Aw, now you done went and spoilt it for me.

Well...but it takes her about a million years (well...words, anyway) to actually come to it.

You can still read most of 'em.

Takes her forever to actually realize he's pretty OK.

4,525 posted on 01/11/2005 11:30:56 AM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton

IT's just so... dull isn't the word. Futile. They thought it was "The Great War". And you know that in half a generation there'll be a worse one. And then the Depression... perhaps I've just never read any stories of courage and valor from that period. It's all "The Grapes of Wrath" and other novels that put me to sleep in 10th grade.


4,526 posted on 01/11/2005 11:31:09 AM PST by JenB
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To: msdrby

Grrr. Another blue sock/black sock day.


4,527 posted on 01/11/2005 11:31:09 AM PST by Professional Engineer (Hunting for college students.)
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To: SuziQ

That is very good news for me ;) Thank you.


4,528 posted on 01/11/2005 11:31:24 AM PST by thesearethetimes...
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To: RosieCotton

How many other boyfriends was she dithering about? There was at least one serious one, right?


4,529 posted on 01/11/2005 11:31:51 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
I don't know, for me WWI was the beginning of modern warfare. I have photos of my greatgrandfather, the one elf-boy is named for, in uniform in 1919.

Hmmm, there it is.


4,530 posted on 01/11/2005 11:33:06 AM PST by msdrby (Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.)
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To: JenB

The "tall, dark and handsome" guy, yeah. With the snobby family.

And she had two other proposals, too, but they were just kinda stupid.

Considering she was proposed to about five times before accepting, it makes me feel a bit useless. ;-)


4,531 posted on 01/11/2005 11:33:23 AM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton

No, she was just stupid. I don't think it will take you that long to recognize your True Love.

What I always loved about the books was the bit where they were girls and writing stories, and Diana couldn't figure out what to do with her characters so she killed them all off.


4,532 posted on 01/11/2005 11:35:50 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
Didn't you ever have to read the first book for school or something?

Nope. Never on the list.

4,533 posted on 01/11/2005 11:36:23 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (All we have to decide is what to do with the crap that we are given...)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Bah...


4,534 posted on 01/11/2005 11:37:03 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

Characters are nothin' but trouble.


4,535 posted on 01/11/2005 11:37:07 AM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton

Hehe... reminds me of Wuthering Heights, I never could figure out why it took Catherine so long to "see" Heathcliff. Linton?(she's kidding, right?)


4,536 posted on 01/11/2005 11:38:19 AM PST by thesearethetimes...
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To: thesearethetimes...

Yeah...the big sissy.

Sometimes book gals can be maddeningly dense.


4,537 posted on 01/11/2005 11:39:35 AM PST by RosieCotton (A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - GK Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton; JenB
It's a part of history that was a blank for me...

For me, anything post-Civil War was not learned in publik skul.

One year, you'd have Virginia history. So you'd start with Jamestown and get thru the Civil War by mid-to-late May.

The next year, you'd have American History. So you'd start wtih Jamestown and get thru the Civil War by mid-to-late May.

Unfortunately, most of my teachers taught in the system before desegregation (the year I started first grade). It's just the way things were "done."

When I took American History in college, we started in Massachusetts. I kept thinking "what's up with this?"

4,538 posted on 01/11/2005 11:40:02 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (All we have to decide is what to do with the crap that we are given...)
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To: RosieCotton

eh...unfortunately, in today's world, "book gals" aren't the only ones... ;}


4,539 posted on 01/11/2005 11:41:16 AM PST by thesearethetimes...
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To: Corin Stormhands

Heh...

I learned most history by picking a random nonfiction book from our collection. When I got to high school, we did it a little more systematically - went to the library and got random books on the period to be studied this month. I do have a few weak spots - the Roaring 20s, for instance, and anything after 1965 when the books I read had been written - but I still got such a decent education, I never had to study for a single college history class. And I took 4.


4,540 posted on 01/11/2005 11:42:48 AM PST by JenB
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