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Escape Is Not A Bad Thing To Be Scorned

Escape Is Not A Bad Thing To Be Scorned

Escape Is Not A Bad Thing To Be Scorned “I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and…

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Treeline, Skyline, And Once-Grand Homes

Treeline, Skyline, And Once-Grand Homes

Treeline, Skyline, And Once-Grand Homes As I write this, I am looking out the window of Mom’s 4th floor hospital room. Snow is falling; sometimes nothing more than flurries while at other times hard enough to obscure everything beyond the roof below. A quarter mile away—just beyond the evergreen treeline—the center tower of the 31st Street Bridge dominates the skyline. It rises 280 feet above the road and is threaded with great cables which provide the deck’s support. Between here…

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