Comments on: The Vast White Landscape: E.B. White’s “Great Snows” Revisited http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/ Place. Limits. Liberty. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:09:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Kirk Martin http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/#comment-27309 Kirk Martin Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:04:32 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7684#comment-27309 I Loved this post - it reminded me of my childhood. I posted on my posterous site. Thanks, Kirk Martin. I Loved this post – it reminded me of my childhood. I posted on my posterous site.
Thanks,
Kirk Martin.

]]> By: Still. | Front Porch Republic http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/#comment-26307 Still. | Front Porch Republic Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:38:12 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7684#comment-26307 [...] things in the wintertime dark. But, inspired by the simple beauty given us by Katherine’s and Jason’s posts, I decided to reprint something quieter and humbler [...] [...] things in the wintertime dark. But, inspired by the simple beauty given us by Katherine’s and Jason’s posts, I decided to reprint something quieter and humbler [...]

]]> By: Ryan Holston http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/#comment-24615 Ryan Holston Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:00:29 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7684#comment-24615 Terrific piece. The flood of one's own memories comes back reading this - different but similar enough... This was a great read. Thank you! Terrific piece. The flood of one’s own memories comes back reading this – different but similar enough… This was a great read. Thank you!

]]> By: SM http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/#comment-24507 SM Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:34:15 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7684#comment-24507 Thank you for this post. I really enjoyed it! Thank you for this post. I really enjoyed it!

]]> By: Cecelia http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/#comment-24433 Cecelia Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:43:50 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7684#comment-24433 That was great. I could smell the woolen mittens drying on the radiator as I read. Really great. That was great. I could smell the woolen mittens drying on the radiator as I read. Really great.

]]> By: Bob Cheeks http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/#comment-24417 Bob Cheeks Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:06:14 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7684#comment-24417 DW, dude, anytime I think back on Buck I get a little choked. Someday we'll have to exchange Buck stories..don't wanna break Peter's thread,"yet." The new boy, "eutychus" is playing nice today. I like this fellow, kinda like you in your prime; nasty, brutish, short, and argumentative. BTW, it's "Christmas Jewess!" Also, BTW, you're waxing eloquent this morning! DW, dude, anytime I think back on Buck I get a little choked. Someday we’ll have to exchange Buck stories..don’t wanna break Peter’s thread,”yet.”
The new boy, “eutychus” is playing nice today. I like this fellow, kinda like you in your prime; nasty, brutish, short, and argumentative.
BTW, it’s “Christmas Jewess!”
Also, BTW, you’re waxing eloquent this morning!

]]> By: eutychus http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/#comment-24414 eutychus Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:30:10 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7684#comment-24414 fantastic post peters. thanks. fantastic post peters. thanks.

]]> By: D.W. Sabin http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/#comment-24412 D.W. Sabin Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:17:51 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7684#comment-24412 There aint nothing quite as deeply stirring as the loud and forceful hush of a monumental snowstorm. The trees whisper songs as the flakes drift down. ...."a geneology of pleasure"....nice one but just to follow this up with a Proper Lundy, I noted you still snuck the word "virgin" into this piece you recidivist scalawag. Hoist a Laphroaig by the fire Peters,neat..... enjoy this remarkable few days that seems to tame even dyspeptic sots such as ourselves. Not that I would insult you with any kind of comparison or anything. As for you Cheeks, now I know the odd linkage that somehow binds us in tart riposte, we both had a half Lab mutt named Buck. Mine was a canine linguist, known to bark entire stanzas whence properly motivated, such as trips to friends when he would wear his favorite visitin attire of a ratty old Brooks Bros. tie and an Iggy Pop t shirt showing him writhing on a dirty Detroit stage screaming "I Wanna Be Your Dog". He wernt no geldin neither. Buck I mean, and of course, the Ig. There aint nothing quite as deeply stirring as the loud and forceful hush of a monumental snowstorm. The trees whisper songs as the flakes drift down.

….”a geneology of pleasure”….nice one but just to follow this up with a Proper Lundy, I noted you still snuck the word “virgin” into this piece you recidivist scalawag.

Hoist a Laphroaig by the fire Peters,neat….. enjoy this remarkable few days that seems to tame even dyspeptic sots such as ourselves. Not that I would insult you with any kind of comparison or anything.

As for you Cheeks, now I know the odd linkage that somehow binds us in tart riposte, we both had a half Lab mutt named Buck. Mine was a canine linguist, known to bark entire stanzas whence properly motivated, such as trips to friends when he would wear his favorite visitin attire of a ratty old Brooks Bros. tie and an Iggy Pop t shirt showing him writhing on a dirty Detroit stage screaming “I Wanna Be Your Dog”.
He wernt no geldin neither. Buck I mean, and of course, the Ig.

]]> By: Empedocles http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/#comment-24405 Empedocles Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:13:04 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7684#comment-24405 Wonderful essay. I don't know if I've ever felt that same concentrated intensity of joy you get from hearing your school announced on the radio. Snow days were just about as perfect a day for a child as you could hope for, sleighing and snowball fights all day, then to come home and have the most delicious hot chocolate ever concocted by mom. Wonderful essay. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt that same concentrated intensity of joy you get from hearing your school announced on the radio. Snow days were just about as perfect a day for a child as you could hope for, sleighing and snowball fights all day, then to come home and have the most delicious hot chocolate ever concocted by mom.

]]> By: Bob Cheeks http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/#comment-24397 Bob Cheeks Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:42:58 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7684#comment-24397 Well done teecher! I started to get choked up at the mention of Jack London's "To Build a Fire." It's in my top five of short stories, sometimes No.1, sometimes not. The story bears the weight of memories; a nubile, recent college grad, sophomore class, English teecher who said I should read Jack London, Flannery O'Connor, H.P. Lovecraft, etc and smiled when she told me. Jack London, yessireee, I named my half Lab, Buck, after another of that old socialist's stories and he was a damn good dog. Old Buck's favorite activities was fightin' and sex, that boy'd dry hump a tree stump, and I saw him fight a whole pack of wild dogs. My Democrat neighbors said I should get him cut, but when I looked in his moist, watery eyes I couldn't do it. I always figured he wouldn't have me cut if the shoe was on the other foot. You're right about the rest of it, the regressive, soul draining cultural progress and I'd rather you were wrong. But we don't remain the same...never did figure that one out. Kinda like Dylan said, "You ain't goin' nowhere..." Well done teecher!
I started to get choked up at the mention of Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.” It’s in my top five of short stories, sometimes No.1, sometimes not. The story bears the weight of memories; a nubile, recent college grad, sophomore class, English teecher who said I should read Jack London, Flannery O’Connor, H.P. Lovecraft, etc and smiled when she told me.
Jack London, yessireee, I named my half Lab, Buck, after another of that old socialist’s stories and he was a damn good dog.
Old Buck’s favorite activities was fightin’ and sex, that boy’d dry hump a tree stump, and I saw him fight a whole pack of wild dogs. My Democrat neighbors said I should get him cut, but when I looked in his moist, watery eyes I couldn’t do it. I always figured he wouldn’t have me cut if the shoe was on the other foot.
You’re right about the rest of it, the regressive, soul draining cultural progress and I’d rather you were wrong. But we don’t remain the same…never did figure that one out.
Kinda like Dylan said, “You ain’t goin’ nowhere…”

]]> By: Orpheo http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/the-vast-white-landscape-e-b-white%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-snows%e2%80%9d-revisited/#comment-24384 Orpheo Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:16:38 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7684#comment-24384 Best post on the porch so far. A true gem. Thank you. Best post on the porch so far. A true gem. Thank you.

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