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Margaret Bald
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| “Tales of Terror” is a delightful collection of 18 short stories by Ida Chittum (1918-2002), with an intro by her daughter, writer Samme Chittum. It’s set in the remote Ozark Mountains of Missouri, land of rolling hills, abandoned mining shafts, and ...more | |
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| In the 18 wonderful short stories of “The Thing Without a Name” by Ida Chittum (1918-2002), we meet an unforgettable character, Granny Grit. She’s “lean, weather-browned, wind-seamed, and leather-tough,” a storyteller in the isolated communities of t ...more | |
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“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)”
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“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)”
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“Forbes did, in fact, break new ground for women...She was an irrepressible and independent traveler who took risky and difficult trips, braved the hostility of the colonial officials and bureaucrats of the British empire, and invaded the male sphere of exploration, using charm, chutzpah--and her extensive network of establishment connections--to get where she wanted to go. (From the Sahara to Samarkand: Selected Travel Writings of Rosita Forbes, 1919-1937)”
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“The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.”
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“The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.”
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“We rode through a three-thousand-year-old country, saw the ruined capital of the Queen of Sheba and the underground red-rock city of Lalibela, fraternized with a tribe of leaden-skinned troglogytes living among the mountains, scrapped with brigands, outwitted crocodiles, and eventually emerged battered and in rags with a book of adventures and 1,000 feet of film.”
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“In real life, the big things and the little things are inextricably mixed up together, so in Libya at one moment, one worried because one's native boots were full of holes, and at the next, perhaps, one wondered how long one would be alive to wear them.”
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“The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan....”
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