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67_16 - Excursions about the countryside: cf. Men and Manners, 14:6. - Books. One of the hectic best sellers when I was very small was East Lynne by Mrs. Wood. It seems to me I read it, but it left a bad taste. The portrayal of intense or defeated passions disgusted me. - The Buzzard. See Astoria, Lovell edition, p. 113. - Boone, Daniel, p. 115. |
67_17 - Came to Little Oak on Monday, Sept. 14, 1942. It was cool in the Bay region, but on nearing Pigeon Point one met north wind although there was no air movement. After reaching lower Vaca Valley, there was obvious north wind; a somewhat gentle breeze, but this was not needed to verify the first apprehension of it. The dry formless air, heated as from an oven, with its own peculiar quality, marks the days of ventus borealis_. The North Wind is of many moods - gentle, placid, static or roaring like a lion in its tearing path of howling despair across the countryside, but always with a common quality of dry heat or tense rasping aridity. Monday night the valley _________________________ _Classically: flamen boreale |
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