This is a beautiful little story.
Chance Traveler
by Haruki Murakami
Harper’s issue 311, July 2005
The “I” here, you should know, means me, Haruki , the author of the story. Mostly this is a third-person narrative, but here at the beginning the narrator does make an appearance. Just like in an old-fashioned play in which the narrator stands [...]
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Expanding on my Jack Wax/Maple Taffee/Sugar on Snow article, here are some excepts as promised from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House in the Big Woods concerning candy-making with snow and maple syrup. I have most of “Dance at Grandpa’s ” up, but left out the part with Uncle George playing his trumpet.
I made sugar on [...]
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Ugh, I know I’ve read this before somewhere else although I can’t remember. Cate Kennedy hails from Australia and is quite famous on that continent. I believe this story is alternatively called “Cold Snap” in “Dark Roots,” her first collection of short stories.
What I like about this story is the concept of displaced acumen. The [...]
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