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Название книги: The Shipping News
Автор(ы): E. Proulx
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Shipping-News-155904.html
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For John, Gillis and Morgan“In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot,there are 256 different ‘over-and-under’ arrangementspossible… Make only one change in this ‘over and under’sequence and either an entirely different knot is madeor no knot at all may result.”THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS
Acknowledgments
Help came from many directions in the writing of The Shipping News. I am grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts for financial support, and to the Ucross Foundation of Wyoming for a quiet place to work. In Newfoundland, advice, commentary and information from many people helped me understand old ways and contemporary changes on The Rock. The Newfoundland wit and taste for conversation made the most casual encounters a pleasure. I am particularly grateful for the kindness and good company of Bella Hodge of Gunner’s Cove and Goose Bay who suffered dog bite on my account and showed me the delights of Newfoundland home cooking. Carolyn Lavers opened my eyes to the complex
Название книги: The Shipping News
Автор(ы): E. Proulx
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Shipping-News-155904.html
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For John, Gillis and Morgan“In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot,there are 256 different ‘over-and-under’ arrangementspossible… Make only one change in this ‘over and under’sequence and either an entirely different knot is madeor no knot at all may result.”THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS
Acknowledgments
Help came from many directions in the writing of The Shipping News. I am grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts for financial support, and to the Ucross Foundation of Wyoming for a quiet place to work. In Newfoundland, advice, commentary and information from many people helped me understand old ways and contemporary changes on The Rock. The Newfoundland wit and taste for conversation made the most casual encounters a pleasure. I am particularly grateful for the kindness and good company of Bella Hodge of Gunner’s Cove and Goose Bay who suffered dog bite on my account and showed me the delights of Newfoundland home cooking. Carolyn Lavers opened my eyes to the complex
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