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The Clammer
Excerpt from The Clammer
Many of my friends - and probably all my neighbors - think me erratic and peculiar, I do not doubt. My friends remonstrate with me mildly, and I usually listen and accept and make no reply. For how can they know? And, they being what they are, how can I help them to a knowledge of things which must be born in a man? My neighbors do not remonstrate, for my neighbors are not of necessity my friends, and I am queer enough not to care to cultivate a man's acquaintance merely because he lives next me.
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Many of my friends - and probably all my neighbors - think me erratic and peculiar, I do not doubt. My friends remonstrate with me mildly, and I usually listen and accept and make no reply. For how can they know? And, they being what they are, how can I help them to a knowledge of things which must be born in a man? My neighbors do not remonstrate, for my neighbors are not of necessity my friends, and I am queer enough not to care to cultivate a man's acquaintance merely because he lives next me.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
268 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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William John Hopkins
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April 8, 2023
A delightful, happy little book written in 1906. It was fresh and quirky to my modern ears. Like many older books its sentences were more complicated than we are used to these days, however it wasn’t too, too difficult to follow.
I recommend starting, as I did, knowing absolutely nothing about the book; it adds a bit of mystery and surprise. Since it’s free on the nonprofit Project Gutenberg’s website, you can abandon it if it doesn’t suit you.
If you want to know a little more, I’ll tell you this: it’s an episode in the life of a charming and odd man who briefly taught school in the past but decided he’d rather hunt for clams by the sea. We learn of his complexities and meet the funny people of the nearby countryside.
I recommend starting, as I did, knowing absolutely nothing about the book; it adds a bit of mystery and surprise. Since it’s free on the nonprofit Project Gutenberg’s website, you can abandon it if it doesn’t suit you.
If you want to know a little more, I’ll tell you this: it’s an episode in the life of a charming and odd man who briefly taught school in the past but decided he’d rather hunt for clams by the sea. We learn of his complexities and meet the funny people of the nearby countryside.
April 16, 2023
I couldn't care less about clams but it's a nice story
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