Re: Hijack - D&S coach 'McPhee' named for town, not author
| March 31, 2020 08:03PM |
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Russo Loco Wrote:
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> p.s. Probably my favorite McPhee book is 'The
> Control of Nature', in which part one describes
> the lower Mississippi River and almost predicts
> what happened to New Orleans with Hurricane
> Katrina, and part three accurately describes
> the recurring cycles of flash floods and raging
> fires that plague Southern California's mountain
> ranges.
gregcoit Wrote:
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> Easily my favorite of his books as well. I grew
> up in Tujunga, CA, and was in junior high the
> year of the 1980(?) mudflows he describes in
> that book. One of my friends ended up with
> a casket in her front yard from the cemetery
> up the road that washed out.
>
> {McPhee}'s ability to make almost anything int-
> eresting and captivating is a real gift. Reading
> some of your older posts, I can see you inher-
> ited some of that literary ability.
Aw shucks, Greg -
It's my Uncle Claude who got the literary genes on this side of the family – see his posts at [ngdiscussion.net] (note the date!) and [ngdiscussion.net] for proof . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/01/2020 02:08PM by Russo Loco.
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> p.s. Probably my favorite McPhee book is 'The
> Control of Nature', in which part one describes
> the lower Mississippi River and almost predicts
> what happened to New Orleans with Hurricane
> Katrina, and part three accurately describes
> the recurring cycles of flash floods and raging
> fires that plague Southern California's mountain
> ranges.
gregcoit Wrote:
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> Easily my favorite of his books as well. I grew
> up in Tujunga, CA, and was in junior high the
> year of the 1980(?) mudflows he describes in
> that book. One of my friends ended up with
> a casket in her front yard from the cemetery
> up the road that washed out.
>
> {McPhee}'s ability to make almost anything int-
> eresting and captivating is a real gift. Reading
> some of your older posts, I can see you inher-
> ited some of that literary ability.
Aw shucks, Greg -
It's my Uncle Claude who got the literary genes on this side of the family – see his posts at [ngdiscussion.net] (note the date!) and [ngdiscussion.net] for proof . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/01/2020 02:08PM by Russo Loco.
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