[lit-ideas] C'est, pas cait
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- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:57:46 EST
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For over two weeks now, David Ritchie and I have been quietly freezing
our metaphors off, struggling through three-inch snow drifts, and
drinking the last of the port, while nibbling the last of the walnuts.
Now, Paul Stone assures us that -7 C is balmy (although he may have
said barmy). But that's still cold for the Willamette Valley. The
coldest it got was -8. Seattle, too, has been cold and chaotic for a
fortnight, and they've had quite a bit more snow.
In the last couple of days there have been numerous sledding
accidents, two fatal, and enough fenders have been bent to create a
shortage of psychotherapists. A young man died when he fell through
the ice in a pond in Washington. Snow and ice makes people crazy here,
sometimes with sad results.
Today, though, it's warmed up to ca. 4 C., and there is an air
stagnation advisory. I may even take the car out. It's not the snow
I'm afraid of--it's my fellow citizens.
Robert Paul
watching it melt,
somewhere south of Reed College
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