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Sitaram
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 Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:36 am Post subject: Stoke the Day |
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Thanks for your post. I was intrigued by your phrase "Let thoughts stoke
the day." I did several google searches on that phrase, and parts of that
phrase, with no results, until finally, I simply searching on "stoke the
day", and here is the first of 231 links returned:
http://www.davecullen.com/brokebackmountain/book_film.html
and here is the 5th link returned:
http://www.enoughforall.com/2005/12/methodical-morning.html
I must post this for now, but I shall return shortly and continue my
thoughts.
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The stale coffee is boiling up but he catches it before it goes over the side,
pours it into a stained cup and blows on the black liquid, lets a panel of
the dream slide forward. If he does not force his attention on it, it might
stoke the day, rewarm that old, cold time on the mountain when
they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong. The wind strikes the
trailer like a load of dirt coming off a dump truck, eases, dies, leaves a
temporary silence. |
Here is Annie Proulx's use of that phrase in BBM. I am curious to see
where it has been used before, and when it was first used.
Searching on that phrase, "stoke the day", is one clever way to find all the
bootleg copies of BBM lying around on the internet. I did not realize
there were quite so many.
What a gift Proulx has for crafting unique sentences which are beautiful
works of art in their own right!
Most of us have one or more "obsessions" or "preoccupations". Some of
us are happy in our obsessions and the remainder are unhappy.
An oinophile and an alcoholic are both preoccupied with the products of fermentation, but in different ways.
One of my obsessions is wanting to be an Annie Proulx, or a Thomas
Pynchon, or a Nabokov, or a Hemingway, or a Wallace Stevens. Part of
my unhappiness is lies in knowing that, most likely, I shall never succeed
in that aspiration.
Abraham Lincoln once said something like "Most people are about as
happy as they make up their minds to be."
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