I can just remember an old brown-coated man who was the Walton of this stream, who had come over from Newcastle, England, with his... son,--the latter a stout and hearty man who had lifted an anchor in his day. A straight old man he was, who took his way in silence through the meadows, having passed the period of communication with his fellows; his old experienced coat, hanging long and straight and brown as the yellow pine bark, glittering with so much smothered sunlight, if you stood near enough, no work of art but naturalized at length. I often discovered him unexpectedly amid the pads and the gray willows when he moved, fishing in some old country method,--for youth and age then went a-fishing together,--full of incommunicable thoughts, perchance about his own Tyne and Northumberland. He was always to be seen in serene afternoons haunting the river, and almost rustling with the sedge; so many sunny hours in an old man's life, entrapping silly fish; almost grown to be the sun's familiar; what need had he of hat or raiment any, having served out his time, and seen through such thin disguises? I have seen how his coeval fates rewarded him with the yellow perch, and yet I thought his luck was not in proportion to his years; and I have seen when, with slow steps and weighed down with aged thoughts, he disappeared with his fish under his low-roofed house on the skirts of the village. I think nobody else saw him; nobody else remembers him now, for he soon after died, and migrated to new Tyne streams. His fishing was not a sport, nor solely a means of subsistence, but a sort of solemn sacrament and withdrawal from the world, just as the aged read their Bibles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fur Protester: Do you know how many poor animals they had to kill to make that coat? Margo: Do you know how many rich animals... I had to fuck to get this coat?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Marriott: I'm afraid I don't like your manner. Philip Marlowe: Yeah, I've had complaints about it but it keeps getting wo...rse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you... and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never... did;" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One by one objects are defined-- It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf...
But now the stark dignity of entrance--Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awakenLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »