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The Clammer
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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.
A scan of this classic is available at the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/clammerx00hopkiala
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.
A scan of this classic is available at the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/clammerx00hopkiala
254 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1906
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William John Hopkins
82 booksHopkins, William John 1863-1926
Hopkins, John, 1863-1926
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Hopkins, John, 1863-1926
Hopkins, William J.
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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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