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Stumpage Reports
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004 :::
In Pursuit of Leviathan
He promised me we were going to use rubber worms, but when I showed up he confessed it was going to be live bait.
I have a friend here that I have a couple of things in common with, most notably going to antique malls, buying shit we don't need, and making fun of other people.
He's also into some kinda guy outdoorsy stuff, which I'm not, he's the one that took me to a shooting range last year. It's good for me to have friends like that, they get me to do shit I wouldn't normally do.
The new activity for Tom yesterday was fishing. I dropped my car off to be worked on at a place near his house and he had promised to keep me entertained for a few hours. After stopping to buy a couple of dozen minnows (pronounced "minners"), we pushed his little plastic boat into a really small pond near his house. He showed me how to get the hook through the minnow's little head (fish don't feel pain, right?) and not two minutes after my hook first went in the water, I caught a little bass, probably about 1 pound. It was nice to get that encouragement right away, 'cause nothing happened for me the rest of the morning.
The most exciting part was when the guy I was with caught a 6 or 7 pound bass, which I guess is good size for these parts.
It was fun, sitting in the boat and running our mouths. He's one of those people I could have fun with while we're waiting for the bus if we had to. I love friends like that. We also got to say things like "Yeah, I wonder what the poor people are doing today?"
Sometime we're going to go to the big lake with his big boat and really have some fun.
Literachur Korner:
Dolce Stil Nuovo: The "sweet new style" (called so in Dante's Purgatory) that flourished among LYRIC POETS in certain Romance languages during the thirteenth century with a premium on lucidity and complex musicality. This style, which contributed to Dante's adoption of the Tuscan vernacular and TERZA RIMA for his Comedy, was the chief precursor and exemplar of modern RHYMED VERSE in Indo-European languages.
--- Handbook to Literature, by C. Hugh Holman and William Harmon.
::: posted by tom at 8:16 AM
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