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What really interests me is how two such unlike particles clung together, and under what strains, rolling downhill into their future until they reached the angle of repose where
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Laurie Colwin
“I feel that weaving is a precise metaphor for the way in which life is made,” she said. “By which I mean individually constructed. Any strand can be woven in at the dictation of the imagination. I think of the philosophy of history as a loom of that sort. It is, isn’t it?”
Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time

“I haven’t figured out how to turn it on, but when I do I’m going to be hell on wheels.”
Craig Johnson, Land of Wolves

Laurie Colwin
“Her research revealed that knitting was a very popular indoor sport and that a loom was on permanent display at the Wool Institute, which also had a few samples of colonial fabric.”
Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time

“I’d heard that they were going to stop teaching cursive in schools, which was fine with me, because then all us old people would have a secret code.”
Craig Johnson, Next to Last Stand

Laurie Colwin
“I’d like to go to all the knitting shops,” Doria said. “I want to see some rustic, hand-pulled yarn. I would also like to see some colonial fabrics, and, if possible, I would like to have some contact with a loom.”
Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time

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